President 2012: Game ON for Jon Hunstman?

Members of the presidential campaign-in-waiting for U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman are set to meet on March 18th in New Orleans for a strategy session.

Huntsman plans to leave his Beijing posting on April 30th to prepare for a likely White House bid in the 2012 election, but he will not be part of the New Orleans gathering and is not privy to it. Some who will attend include veteran Republican strategist John Weaver, GOP ad maker Fred Davis and New Hampshire Republican activist Peter Spaulding. Three staffers for Horizon PAC, the organization for Huntsman’s campaign-in-waiting, will also attend, including executive director Susie Wiles, spokesman Tim Miller and Jake Suski.

Huntsman will certainly have the personal money to fund a primary campaign and I understand he has already put a dent into Mitt Romney’s donors (you know LDS and all). So, money will NOT be a problem.

Name ID will probably be purchased rather quickly and a fresh face is certainly better than the old guard who at this point are continuing to stick around.

Stay tuned as more candidates start to gear up – next up will be Mitch Daniels and Haley Barbour.