Huntsman, the rocker

Check out this piece by By Ben Smith and Kasie Hunt for Politico.com. It’s titled, “Jon Huntsman, the rock ‘n’ roll years,” and examines the former Utah governor’s somewhat troubled youth as a keyboard player for a Salt Lake City band called “Wizard.”
The possible presidential candidate (no one seems to know whether he will run next year or in 2016) didn’t graduate from Highland High, presumably because of his obsession with the band. One classmate described Huntsman in history class “hitting his desk as if it were a piano.”

But even in this somewhat unflattering portrait of a confused young man, Huntsman comes across looking pretty good. While some of the other band members indulged in mind-altering substances, Jon Jr. is described as not partaking. “I never saw him inhale,” a former fellow band member is quoted as saying.
Frankly, I’m not sure whether inhaling in one’s youth is still a political liability.
All of this makes you wonder what Mitt Romney was doing in his teenage years.