Watch the speech live here. After a few jazzy swing numbers, the Huntsman family is taking the stage to the strains of "It's a Beautiful Day."

Huntsman begins, "I'd say third place is a ticket to ride, ladies and gentlemen. Hello, South Carolina!" Huntsman points out how many campaign stops he made. The crowd doesn't sound very enthusiastic, although they do break out into "Country first" chants every now and again. "Afghanistan isn't this country's future," Huntsman says. "All I can tell you tonight, if we don't get our act together at home, we are going to see the end of the American Century by 2050."

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Huntsman repeatedly calls the U.S.A. "the greatest nation that ever was." Despite his prognostications of doom, his speech is mostly positive, calling us the most "blue sky, optimistic, can do...people on Earth." He announces that "Congress needs term limits."

"Osama bin Laden is no longer around," he says, announcing that Al Qaeda is no longer a threat. "It is time to bring our troops home from Afghanistan, ladies and gentlemen." Huntsman says we need to come together because America "has every single attribute" a nation needs to succeed, adding, "did you know that?" He just tried a New Hampshire accent—New Hampshuh," to meager applause, in the middle of a series of positive attributes about America. "I'll be darned if we're going to allow our men and women to come from the theater of combat, the front lines, to the unemployment lines." Romney made the same promise in his speech, too. Huntsman promises "another greatest generation coming up." He says his campaign went from person to person in New Hampshire, which he calls "the old way to get politics done." He closes by talking up his "ticket to ride" again, adding, "here we go on to South Carolina," and "It's a Beautiful Day" kicks back in, and it's over.

Well. At least it was brief. Huntsman has the looks of a politician. He makes more sense than most Republicans. But his speaking voice is uninspiring on video—and if he couldn't get a room of New Hampshire friendlies to tear the roof off that motherfucker on primary night, he's got to be an uninspiring speaker in person too—and he's seriously lacking in charisma. The problem is, it was a very good speech: Positive throughout, with occasional pit stops into depressing territory, to remind the audience why they were there. If Romney had given that speech, he would have blown a lot of voters away. Instead, Huntsman farted his way through the speech, and nothing will come of it, or him. If he couldn't make it here, he can't make it anywhere.