(Wapo).Less than 24 hours after Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman's national profile received a nice -- and unexpected -- boost from the man who managed President Obama's 2008 campaign, comes words that John Weaver is providing strategic guidance to the governor.
Weaver was long known as the political consigliere to Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), riding herd over McCain's first presidential bid in 2000 and then laying the groundwork for a second bid in 2008 only to part ways with the Senator before the campaign ever really got underway.
While Huntsman has made no specific statements about his interest in a 2012 presidential candidacy, his recent schedule -- he made several stops in the early primary state of Michigan over the weekend -- coupled with his high-profile stances in support of civil unions for gay couples and his progressive attitude on the environment all point toward the early stages of a 2012 bid,Advising with a practiced hand like Weaver will only increase that chatter as will comments made recently by David Plouffe, the man who managed Obama's presidential campaign, in praise of Huntsman.
From the Reaction:
"Huntsman is still a relatively unknown figure (and it's not clear how he would conduct himself on the national stage). That can change in a hurry -- who was Bill Clinton in 1989? -- but long before a campaign against Obama, a campaign it's hard to imagine him winning, he would face the obstacle of securing his own party's nomination, and it's similarly hard to imagine the extremists who currently control the GOP taking to such an independent-minded renegade'.
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