MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican President hopeful Jon Huntsman and his family expressed outrage Friday to a display on his adopted daughters by a group of support aligned rival Ron Paul.
An online display of "NHLiberty4Paul" shows pictures of Huntsman written with daughters Gracie, which was adopted from China and ASHA, adopted by India, when they were children.
"American values." Or Chinese, "asks the ad to a soundtrack of Chinese music." It calls Hunter "Manchurian candidate" and end with a picture of Huntsman dressed as China's former Communist leaders Mao Zedong and the words "Vote Ron Paul."
Paul, a Texas Congressman, who disavowed display in an interview on CNN Friday, but said that he could not control the actions of his followers.
"I could hear an not even yet not it looked but people do, and they do it in all campaigns,", said Paul.
In a campaign appearance in Concord, New Hampshire, Hunter called, the US Ambassador to China until April before jumping into the Republican race was, the display "simply just stupid" and "political campaign nonsense."
"If anyone wants me to fun the OK, stuck," said Hunter, in the most polls in the Republican nomination contest routes. "What am I pictures and videos from my adopted daughters and proposes, there is something sinister."
The second oldest of seven children of Huntsman, Abby Huntsman Livingston, condemned the ad on Fox News channel "America live" broadcast.
"It is regrettable that these heinous political dialogue has become." In our family we put on the national stage and we expect that everything and nothing get. Unfortunately, I think this video is a bit far, "said Livingston." "My two little sisters are the love of my father's life."
Gracie Mei Huntsman, now 12, was found in a vegetable market in China at 6 months old, and the Huntsman accepted and abandoned his wife Mary Kaye. Is it often referred to by her father as "Our senior foreign policy adviser." for a fixture on the campaign trail
ASHA, now 6, in a field in India on the day given up was that which she was born, said Livingston.
Also weighing, Cindy was McCain, the wife of 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain. "I of@jonhuntsman, annoy the video using the adopted daughters deeply" wrote McCain on Twitter. "@ Ronpaul shame on you." "This has shades of 2000 all over it."
During John McCain's failed 2000 campaign for the Republican nomination automated calls according to the Arizona Senator fathering an out of marriage "black baby," apparently on the McCain's adopted Bangladeshi daughter.
(Reporting by Ros Krasny;) (Editing by Peter Cooney)
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