Posted on 10/07/2009 6:25:17 PM PDT by pissant
Former GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter was in Boise on Tuesday raising money for 1st District candidate Vaughn Ward.
Hunter, who represented a San Diego district for 18 years, had campaigned for former Rep. Bill Sali in the past. Hunter said he phoned Sali to tell him he wants Ward to face Democrat Walt Minnick in 2010.
Before the $100 per person event at the Arid Club, the former chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and 2008 presidential candidate sat down with the Idaho Statesman.
Q: You have supported Bill Sali. Why the change?
A: "I explained to Bill that I think Vaughn has a quality that is extremely important to the nation right now because we're at war. And that is he is one of the few combat veterans running for Congress."
Hunter said Sali told him Tuesday morning that he hadn't decided whether to try to reclaim a seat he held from 2007 to 2009. Sali did not return phone calls Tuesday.
Q: Iran recently disclosed it has a second uranium enrichment site, at Qom. How should the U.S. respond?
A: "It is now clear that the Iranians intend to produce nuclear weapons. Either they voluntarily dismantle these sites and stop the centrifuges or we destroy them."
Q: How?
A: "You take them out with conventional (non-nuclear bombs). ... If we're going to compare this to a shooting gallery, the larger ducks are going by right now. Once they produce enough material to build a couple of bombs, they can apply the conventional components and trigger mechanisms and weaponize it in a very small, secret, hidden place."
Q: Is bombing necessary within a matter of months?
A: "I don't know, but I would say this: Typically
(Excerpt) Read more at idahostatesman.com ...
ping. An interview from the Idaho Statesman
AMEN!
No tiptoeing for Hunter. He’ll scare the little freak sh*tless in Iran. We won’t have to fire a shot.
Sweet.
He’s supposed to call me for an interview tonight. But he’s out in bumstick Idaho on a hunting trip.
How I wish
Tell him that at least one Freeper would still like to see him as GOP chair if he doesn’t want to make another run at the White House.
He wouldn’t take it. He doesn’t have much respect for that positition from what I gather.
That’s my goal.
The very reason the RINOs and the JACKASS party quaked in thier boots at the thought of him running.
LOL I don’t have much respect for the position these days myself.
Duncan Hunter will always be my number 1 candidate.
SECONDED! If he runs again, he’s got my vote and support!
I sure wish he would.
Hope he runs. If not, he’s still going to be very active in getting CONSERVATIVES elected.
I think it was his position on China - properly identifying them as a real and dangerous threat - that had the GOPers afraid of him.
Hunter, who represented a San Diego district for 18 years
I'm sure you will conduct a much better interview and get the basic facts correct. ;*)
Did he call yet? Did he? Huh?
LOL! Anxiously awaiting an update. ;*)
Really? What a waste of talent that would be.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.