Looking ahead to 2012 primaries

Published: February 8, 2008, 1:35 pm

The new folks here inside the Beltway — that would be The Politico — had a very important story the other day about a reality that will almost certainly help shape the GOP race for the White House in 2011 and 2012 (that is, if you assume that the Clintons have enough stuff on Barack Obama to force him into the VP slot and that the story plays out from there with a GOP loss). The bottom line: You know we will hear from Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee again. I missed this story when it ran, just before Super Tuesday. The headline was edgy enough: “Utah’s Mormons loathe Huckabee.” You know what the hook is, don’t you? The wellspring of Huckabee hate is a now-famous Dec. 16 New York Times Magazine interview in which the former Arkansas governor, in an “innocent voice,” is reported to have asked, “Don’t Mormons . . . believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?” To Mormons, Huckabee’s eyebrow-raising question

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