Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012

Candidate profile | Jon Huntsman

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  At 19, Jon Huntsman arrived in Taiwan for a two-year gig as a missionary for the Mormon church. He didn't receive a warm reception. The Taiwanese government was furious at the United States for re-establishing diplomatic ties with China, and the people whom Huntsman was there to recruit to his faith weren't much happier.

• Debate | Huntsman bows out, endorses Romney

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• DEBATE | Huntsman’s face will stay on ‘Mount Myrtle’

  DEBATE | Huntsman’s face will stay on ‘Mount Myrtle’

  Jon Huntsman dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but he’s staying on a sand sculpture featuring all the candidates.

• Huntsman could bring us back together

  Huntsman could bring us back together

  A fter months of flirting with candidates who considered inexperience an asset, obstinance and vitriol a virtue and extremism – even flakiness – a job requirement, Republican voters seem to be settling down. Increasingly, they are rallying around a grownup who has impressive experience as a chief executive, in and out of government, and a history of making things work rather than pursuing ideological fetishes. Yet nearly two-thirds of Republican primary voters still reject Mitt Romney, and his opponents are convinced they can raise that number by screaming: “Moderate! Moderate! Moderate!”