It would be easy to come up with a long list of secular reasons why Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman want to run for president. Romney has personal and familial ambition to burn. He decided against seeking a second term as governor of Massachusetts so he could contest his party’s presidential nomination in ’08. That set him up as heir apparent for next year, given the GOP electorate’s penchant for rewarding runners-up. Never mind beating Obama—just winning the nomination would be an achievement that his late father, automotive CEO and Michigan governor George Romney, never managed.
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