House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi fired back at former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Sunday, after Gingrich described an 2008 climate change ad he made with Pelosi as "the dumbest single thing I’ve done." 
 
 "Well, I don't want to make any comments about Newt Gingrich, he who has been fined $300,000 by the ethics committee — you think he'd consider that a big mistake," Pelosi said on CNN's "State of the Union." 
 
 "Since you brought up my name in association with him as the dumbest thing he ever did, I think there is plenty of stiff competition for that honor as far as his activities are concerned," the California Democrat said. 
 
 Gingrich has apologized to Republican voters for the 2008 ad that was partially organized by former Vice President Al Gore. But Pelosi said she had no regrets about making the ad with Gingrich. 
 
 "I'm not turning my back on the need for us to address the climate crisis in the world. I hope he isn't either," she said. 
 
 Read more about: Nancy Pelosi, Newt Gingrich ||||| Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman says the biggest difference between himself and front runner Mitt Romney is trust. 
 
 "He's morphed himself so many times that for many of the voters, I think they're going to find during an election that's based on trust, that they're going to have a hard time getting a beat on where his core is," Huntsman said in an interview aired Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." 
 
 "You run for the Senate as a liberal. You run for governor as a moderate. You run for president as a conservative. Where are you at the end of the day? That's a legitimate question that people have," he told host Candy Crowley. 
 
 Still, Huntsman seemed to rule out the possibility of an independent run or declining to endorse the GOP nominee. 
 
 "I'll support the Republican nominee," he said. "That's what you do when all is said and done." 
 
 Read more about: Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman ||||| Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) explained his endorsement of Mitt Romney in an interview aired Sunday, saying his once-bitter 2008 rival worked tirelessly for his general election campaign. 
 
 "After the 2008 [primary] campaign was over, no one worked harder on behalf of my campaign than Mitt Romney did," McCain said on CBS' "Face the Nation." 
 
 McCain likened his 2008 rivalry with Romney with Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, who ran against each other in the 1980 GOP primaries. 
 
 "You can run clips of Reagan and Bush back in 1980 — you would get the same thing. These are spirited discussions and debates," McCain said. "You put these things aside just the way Reagan and Bush did" 
 
 "I think by far, he is the best qualified," McCain said. "I admire him, I admire his family, I admire his values." 
 
 Read more about: John McCain, Mitt Romney ||||| House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi denied on Sunday there was any problem with President Barack Obama attacking Congress as he gears up for his reelection campaign. 
 
 "It's not me. It's the Republican majority in the House of Representatives," the California Democrat said on CNN's "State of the Union." "We have missed an opportunity — much of it because they want to obstruct the initiatives of the president." 
 
 "For the good of the country, I think it's really important for the president to make the [case] that he is running against a do-nothing Congress," Pelosi told host Candy Crowley. 
 
 "I completely subscribe to his approach," Pelosi said. 
 
 Read more about: Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi ||||| Despite a pledge to support the Republican presidential nominee, Jon Huntsman says he'd have a "tough time" voting for Rep. Ron Paul over President Barack Obama. 
 
 "You'd vote for [Paul] if it were him versus President Obama?" CNN's Candy Crowley asked Huntsman in an interview aired Sunday on "State of the Union." 
 
 "His isolationism during a time when Iran is on the ascent, during a time when the world is more in need of America's values of liberty and democracy and human rights and free markets; I would have a very very tough time with," Huntsman said. 
 
 Pressed on whether he would consider voting for or supporting Obama in that case, the former Utah governor said, "Well, I don't think that will even be a possibility." 
 
 "These are all hypotheticals. To say that Ron Paul will get to the finish line is just not a reality," Huntsman said. 
 
 Moments earlier, Huntsman told Crowley that he would support the GOP nominee, whoever that is. 
 
 "I'll support the Republican nominee," he said. "That's what you do when all is said and done." 
 
 Huntsman launched into a broad attack on the positions of his GOP presidential rival, telling Crowley the Texas congressman brings together fringe elements of the political spectrum. 
 
 "Whether it's a sense of isolationism or whether it's legalizing drugs, he brings a lot of the extreme ends of the political spectrum together, which to my mind means that he is not electable in the end," Huntsman said. 
 
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– The GOP candidates were busily piling on Mitt Romney during the Meet the Press debate, and Jon Huntsman took it a step further on State of the Union today, bashing Romney as having "morphed himself" too much for voters to know who he really is. "You run for the Senate as a liberal," Huntsman complained. "You run for governor as a moderate. You run for president as a conservative. Where are you at the end of the day?" Elsewhere on the Sunday talk show dial, as per Politico: Huntsman on voting for Ron Paul over President Obama: "(Paul's) isolationism during a time when Iran is on the ascent, when the world is more in need of America's values of liberty and democracy and human rights and free markets, I would have a very very tough time with." Nancy Pelosi on Obama's attacks on Congress: "It's not me. It's the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. We have missed an opportunity—much of it because they want to obstruct the initiatives of the president. For the good of the country, I think it's really important for the president to make the [case] that he is running against a do-nothing Congress. I completely subscribe to his approach." Pelosi on Newt Gingrich's 'dumbest thing' he's done (a climate change ad with her): "He who has been fined $300,000 by the ethics committee—you think he'd consider that a big mistake." However, "Since you brought up my name in association with him as the dumbest thing he ever did, I think there is plenty of stiff competition for that honor as far as his activities are concerned." John McCain on endorsing Romney: "After the 2008 [primary] campaign was over, no one worked harder on behalf of my campaign than Mitt Romney did." As for his onetime rival, "You can run clips of Reagan and Bush back in 1980—you would get the same thing. These are spirited discussions. You put these things aside just the way Reagan and Bush did. I think by far, he is the best qualified."