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“If you love this country, you serve this country.”  With that sentence spoken on CNN today, former Utah governor John Huntsman effectively takes himself out the 2012 Presidential Primary and puts himself on the market as a Vice Presidential running mate.  First he blanches at the thought of running alongside Mitt Romney, presumably because they are  both Mormon, and then embraces the idea of running with Michele Bachmann. It’s hard to tell if Huntsman planted the question with his interview to float his name for VP, or if he tripped himself up with his answer.  But what is said is said, and Huntsman will now have to live with it.