Keyes was an Ambassador who has lost seven elections. Hunter won 14 of them, most of them convincingly. He was President of the American Security Council, he co-founded the Conservative Opportunity Society with Vin Webber and Newt, he helped write the Contract with America, he was Chairman of the House Armed Services committee as well as being ranking minority member, he’s a Vietnam Combat Veteran, he is a lawyer who ran his own business, he’s on the board of CPAC, he is THE recognized expert on our military systems, he was Reagan’s point man on SDI, he won the AZ and TX straw polls last time and tied in SC - despite being outspent 50 to 1, typically, and despite having a full time job unlike Huck, Fred, Mitt, Rudy, etc.
And on the issues, no one, not even Reagan, is as solid.
I won’t argue his credentials. All I’ll say is that I hope he runs a much better campaign than he did the last time around. No one can tell me that he ran a good campaign with a straight face. His failure to attract funding, if nothing else, points to an extremely poor campaign, and that’s if we completely ignore his poor numbers.