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All that came crashing to a halt when Huntsman called Weaver and told him he was going to accept cheap clothing stores as Obama’s ambassador to China. “Yours is a family newspaper,” Weaver told me, “so I won’t say what I told him.” Common wisdom had it that Obama and his team had shrewdly decided to move Huntsman out of the country and take him off the Republican playing field for 2012 — a not-illogical conclusion, given that David Plouffe, Obama’s cheap clothes online , had noted that Huntsman was the one potential adversary whom he thought could be a potentially strong challenger.

But the cheap clothes was that Obama, having won on a promise to transcend partisanship, was searching for Republicans he could appoint to high-profile posts, and Huntsman was a perfect fit for the job; he had become enthralled with Chinese culture while working in Taiwan as a Mormon missionary in his 20s, and he later served as an Asia expert in George H. W. Bush’s Commerce Department. “He had to take wholesale designer clothing ,” Weaver says now. “It wasn’t a debatable thing.”