pragmatic liberal
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« on: August 05, 2009, 10:51:27 AM » |
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I'm actually a little skeptical he'll do well in a bid for a Republican presidential nomination. The problem is I'm hard-pressed to think of an example of someone accepting an appointment in a rival party's administration then running that party soon after that.
Now it's certainly possible. IF Obama wins a HUGE reelection victory in 2012 and remains very popular, and Republican collectively decide to campaign more on a forward-looking theme rather than attacking the Obama administration, then perhaps they'll forgive Huntsman for serving as Obama's ambassador in China (esp. considering it's not a political position).
My own sense is that Huntsman probably has to come home at some point and seek office again - perhaps run for an open Utah Senate seat. And then he probably has to bone up on his Republican bona fides, which perhaps makes something like 2020 plausible. But that's a long ways off. 2016 might be too soon.
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