Is there a market for Huntsman?

The video below is from the Wall Street Journal. The commentators believe former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. is trying to attack Republican voters from the left, which they think is a dubious strategy right now.

Does the GOP have any interest in a candidate who supports, for instance, global warming? Incidentally, the video doesn’t mention that Mitt Romney also believes it is real.

Huntsman is successfully gaining a lot of media attention by positioning himself to the left of everyone else, but is he pushing himself any closer to the Republican nomination? Or is he the only candidate in the race who is genuine and unafraid to say what he really thinks in an age when the party demands loyalty oaths and a lock-step adherence to certain ideas?

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Jay Evensen

Jay Evensen is the Associate Editor of the Deseret News editorial page. He has 30 years of journalism experience covering politics and a variety of other assignments at news organizations ranging from United Press International in New York City to the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Deseret News, where he has worked for 26 years. During that time, he has won numerous local, regional and national awards. Most recently, he was given the Cameron Duncan Media Award, given annually in Washington, D.C., by the advocacy group RESULTS, to the journalist judged to have done the most to further the cause of the world's poorest people.

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