A Cruise With Jon Huntsman

Townhall.com ^ | January 7, 2011 | Michael Gerson

[Kaslin]

LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, New Hampshire -- A few hundred New Hampshire Republicans mingle loudly on a sunset dinner cruise, oblivious to the scheduled speakers and to the lovely, green landscape rolling by. The best discussions, as usual, are located near the bar, where veterans of primaries past are gossiping, complaining and thoroughly enjoying their disproportionate influence over American politics.

Mitt Romney, one overhears, didn't fill the audience for his town hall meeting. Herman Cain is getting a noisy buzz. Rudy Giuliani may run, if only to erase the memory of his last, disastrous campaign. Tim Pawlenty is the most sophisticated networker but has yet to catch fire.

A skulking columnist asks: What of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman? "Don't know much about him," says a longtime GOP activist, "but I hear he is a moderate." It is not intended as a compliment.

Huntsman, making his way smoothly around the deck, seems determined to convert everyone, handshake by handshake. His staff believes his comparative advantage is retail politics. Huntsman is beginning a two-day, 11-stop tour of New Hampshire's North Country, including two VFWs and Chutters candy shop. Scheduling must be a challenge; the region is populated by about 18 persons per square mile. When it comes to grass-roots politics, Huntsman is burrowing deep.

[catman67]

Maybe he stopped HERE!!!

[ASA Vet]

Jon Huntsman Jr.

born March 26, 1960 in Palo Alto, CA (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)

Parents were
Jon M Huntsman Sr. born ID
Karen Haight born San Diego, CA

Both parents were US Citizens at the time of his birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)

Jon Huntsman Jr is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN

Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein ObamaISN'T

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