Reporting from Jersey City, N.J.—Jon Huntsman Jr. ceremonially magasin abercrombie launched his presidential campaign Tuesday with the Statue of Liberty as his backdrop. But more telling was what figuratively stood to the Republican's right: the rest of the GOP's 2012 field.Huntsman's long-shot candidacy rests, in large part, on a gamble about positioning. Utah's former governor and President Obama's former ambassador to China has staked out the turf to the left of the other GOP candidates, a move that could help him were he to win his party's nomination but that may well prevent him from getting it.

"Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America," he said from a stage overlooking New York harbor in Liberty State Park. "My kids can't believe I just said that," he added. He repeated the lines four hours later in New tongs abercrombie femme Hampshire, a state key to his chances.Huntsman, 51, is waging what he says will be a different sort of campaign. An expensively produced campaign video, used to introduce him to a small invited crowd of friends and supporters, borrowed from Obama by describing Huntsman as a "no drama" politician — in contrast to his often-combative and partisan competitors.

"I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president," Huntsman told the crowd.But his three-minute commercial took clear aim at GOP front-runner Mitt Romney, casting Huntsman as a former businessman and elected official who didn't flip-flop, created jobs instead of buying them (as private-equity executives like Romney are accused of doing) and pushed a free-market healthcare plan without a mandate like that shorts abercrombie backed by the former Massachusetts governor.