From Friday night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On Jon Huntsman’s moderate foreign policy:

It might be that there is one area — which is the Afghan war — where he could tap into the war weariness, which up until now and traditionally, the Ron Pauls of the party exploited and gained benefit from. I think he [Huntsman] will benefit from it.
He will take a strong position that we’re allocating resources in the wrong way. He’s not going to present it as an isolationist retreat, the way Paul does, but he will say it’s not rational that a sixth of our dollars are going to Afghanistan. And I think it could have an appeal. It gives him an issue and distinguishes him from the rest of the pack . …
And he wants to situate himself as the guy who is not rejecting America’s [superpower] role… but is saying this is an unwise allocation of resources — unlike Paul, who says we have no business in the world. Let’s ‘Come home, America.’

On White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s claim that almost 200 major donors to the Obama campaign who received administration positions “got them because of their credentials”:

Well, they say the definition of a diplomat is a gentleman sent abroad to lie for his country. The definition of a press secretary is a gentleman who stays home and lies on behalf of his president.
Look, this is such a transparent lie that it’s almost innocent. Any administration giving the large donors appointments is like the sun rising in the east. I am not shocked.

On the failure by the federal government to track hundreds of the weapons it allowed Mexican drug cartels to purchase in the United States as part of Operation Fast and Furious:

Look, in principle, it’s not a bad idea to infiltrate the bad guys either with trackable weapons or even with agents. That’s what you do in wars. But you have to be able to actually track the weapons, know what’s happening. And that’s where it seems to have become a fiasco. No tracking. No oversight. Bad management. The execution was terrible.