Huntsman for president?

Excerpts of 2012: The Year of the Mormons? By Stephen Stromberg, Washington Post
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Will America see a Mormon GOP presidential nominee after all? Some conservatives are already looking around for the not-Mitt-Romney candidate -- which is ominous for the former Massachusetts governor's inevitable run. But the White House now expects that Jon Huntsman, America's ambassador to China and the former governor of Utah will [prepare] for a 2012 presidential campaign.

Huntsman has many of the attractions of presumed front-runner Romney
without some of Romney's particular deficiencies. He's a wealthy, smart, businesslike former governor who has a reputation for competent management and is seen as having a real shot in a general election. But he didn't enact Romneycare (a.k.a. Obamacare lite among some conservatives). And he doesn't have the same reputation for opportunistic ideological vacillation.

Perhaps more importantly, 2012 may be the most favorable year ever for a Mormon presidential aspirant in GOP primaries.