Según Chris Cillizza (Washington Post), el Embajador/Gobernador Jon Huntsman está inclinado a presentarse a la Presidencia, y enumera a las personas que podrían formar parte de su futura campaña:
(...) U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman (R) appears to be leaning toward a run for president in 2012 and a team of political operatives and fundraisers have begun informal talks and outreach to ensure he could rapidly ramp up if he decides to run.
(...) * John Weaver: Weaver has been at the presidential game for quite some time now. He was one of Arizona Sen. John McCain's senior advisers during the 2000 primary fight and was the chief strategist in the early days of McCain's second bid for president in 2008. (Weaver left the campaign in a staff shuffle in the summer of 2007.)
* Fred Davis/Brian Nick: Davis is one of the leading Republican media consultants in the country, having produced the ads for McCain's general election race against President Obama in 2008 and handled a wide variety of clients in the 2010 cycle including Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina. Nick is Davis' right hand man at the firm.
* Tom Loeffler: Loeffler, a former Republican congressman from Texas, is a major GOP fundraiser these days. Loeffler was the national finance chairman for McCain's 2008 presidential bid and national finance co-chairman for then Texas Gov. George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign.
* Scott Anderson: Anderson is the chairman and CEO of Zions Bank in Salt Lake City and a major player in Beehive State politics.
* Richard Quinn: Quinn is one of a handful of longtime political operatives in the crucial early primary state of South Carolina. Like many of the others in the Huntsman inner circle, Quinn has long ties to McCain -- having worked for him in South Carolina in 2000 and 2008.
* Peter Spaulding: Spaulding, a former member of the New Hampshire Executive Council, was McCain's New Hampshire chairman in 2000 and 2008.
* Neil Ashdown: Ashdown served as chief of staff to Huntsman as governor and now serves in the same role in China.
* Susan Wiles: Wiles is a longtime Florida operative who most recently served as campaign manager for Gov. Rick Scott's (R) successful campaign in the Sunshine State. Wiles has worked closely with former Gov. Jeb Bush on education issues and served as chief of staff to two mayors of Jacksonville.
* Bill Stern: Stern is a moneyman in South Carolina who served as finance chairman for McCain's presidential bids as well as former Gov. Mark Sanford. (...)
6 comentarios:
Cuidadito con Jon Huntsman. Es un candidato que no aparece en las quinielas pero sería un candidato excepcional. Un gestor extraordinario y con amplia experiencia internacional. Nadie le ha tomado en consideración pero cada adquiere más fuerza su posible candidatura. Todo el mundo habla de que los "tapados" son Thune y Daniels, pero Jon Huntsman podría ser el hombre del que se refiera el encuestador Rasmussen. Simplemente formidable candidato.
Estoy de acuerdo. Es probablemente el más ambicioso de todos. Es un tío que ha tenido éxito en todo lo que ha hecho. Si da el paso será un candidato muy serio.
Tiene simpatía de imagen, tiene historial, tiene contactos, tiene dinero, domina los temas que están sonando más fuerte (la economía, el comercio, los negocios, las relaciones con China, etc.), y tendría un tratamiento bastante limpio de la gran prensa por la autoridad de su familia en el establishment.
¿Es verdad que Hunstman es moderado?
Se posicionó a favor de la unión civil de homosexuales. En todo lo demás como gobernador tiene un historial más conservador que el de Romney.
Tiene un historial más conservador en un estado mucho más conservador. Que todo suma.
Así es. Pero precisamente por eso podía haber ido a lo seguro en el tema de las uniones civiles o el medio ambiente, y no lo hizo. Huntsman fue un gobernador conservador reformista.
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