Posted on 02/20/2009 12:50:59 PM PST by Notoriously Conservative
I personally don't completely like his policies. He supports civil unions, and is big into global warming. Though, he is conservative on a lot of issues, and seems to be fiscally conservative.
From the Deseret News:
Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. is looking more and more like a presidential candidate for the GOP nomination in 2012.
During a trip this week to Washington, D.C., for a meeting of the National Governors' Association, Huntsman will make two political stops, including one in South Carolina.
As the first Southern state to vote in a presidential primary, South Carolina is seen as a critical test for candidates. Political insiders there are often courted very early in the election cycle, long before candidates declare they're in the race.
Huntsman, already being touted as a presidential contender by the Washington Post and other national media, will get a chance to introduce himself to a group of key South Carolina Republicans at a dinner hosted Friday night by that state's GOP attorney general, Henry McMaster.
"That is a sign there is at least some thought of a presidential campaign," said Matthew Wilson, a professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas who specializes in religion and politics. Huntsman needs to visit early primary states because, Wilson said, he is unknown to anyone who's not closely following the race.
"Only people who are really, really political junkies are talking about him now. He's third tier," Wilson said, behind a handful of better-known likely candidates including former Utah Olympic leader Mitt Romney, who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP nomination in 2008.
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Karras was his primary opponent.
Did Hansen run at the convention?
I felt sorry for Olene Walker being squeezed out but it seems she vetoed school choice so to hell with her.
Yeah, a whole mess of candidates ran at the convention.
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=7060
Olene Walker’s main problem was that she was considered too old. If she had run for the full term, she’d have been 74 (and 82 at the conclusion of two terms in 2013). Although Jim Hansen is just 2 years younger, and that may have been counted against him (and he hadn’t been involved in state politics in nearly a quarter-century, having been House Speaker from 1979-81).
I don’t know how I feel about their convention system.
Hansen didn’t do so hot.
I thought Walker came in 3rd but she was 4th with under 10%.
That’s what you get http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,595058986,00.html
Look at Hunstman, are he and Myth cousins? Several similarities. At least Myth made his own $$$$ though.
I am from Utah also and I would vote for Huntsman. He is the best governor Utah has ever had.
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