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<div class="cnn_byline">Posted by</div><span class="cnn_author"><a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/tag/cnn-producer-gabriella-schwarz/" rel="tag">CNN Producer Gabriella Schwarz</a></span>
<p class="cnn_first"><strong>(CNN)</strong> – Former GOP White House
contender Jon Huntsman on Monday explained the comparison he made
between the Republican Party and Communist Party of China the night
before as "waxing philosophical" on the state of politics. </p>
<p>On Sunday night Huntsman equated being disinvited by the Republican
Party from a Florida fundraiser in March after he floated the idea of a
third party to "what they do in China on party matters if you talk off
script," according to political blog BuzzFeed.<br>
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<p>On Monday the former Utah governor, who served as U.S. ambassador to
China under President Barack Obama, blamed blogs for taking a sentence
out of context, but repeated the sentiment. </p>
<p>"Last night I said, you know if you're not on script and you get
knocked out of an event like that the party's supposed to be big tent,
you're supposed to bring in all ideas and I said, I thought for a moment
about what they do in China if you're off script. The party, they knock
you out," Huntsman said on MSNBC. "We shouldn't be doing that here. We
should be accommodating all voices."</p>
<p>He also called on the Republican Party to provide bold solutions to
the American people, adding that a failure to do so could result in an
"alternative voice or a separate angle of attack that's going to knock
it down," an apparent reference to a third party. </p>
<p>Huntsman suspended his presidential bid in January after a third
place finish in the New Hampshire primary and endorsed frontrunner Mitt
Romney for the nomination. </p>
<p>"This is a time to go big and go bold and go visionary," Huntsman
said. "The people of this country are waiting for it and the world is
waiting for it too, we have a huge opening."</p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<br><a href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com" target="_blank">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</a><br>