Reasons To Support Duncan Hunter

Spark it Up ^ | 7/30/07 | Kilo

[Pistolshot]

Duncan will make a GREAT Vice-President in the Fred Thompson administration.

[dschapin]

One thing that he will have going for him is that a lot of independants with populist leaning views are going to vote for him because of his views on trade. I think a lot of other people are going to be attracted to the fact that he is a straight shooter who doesn’t talk like a typical politician.

[EGPWS]

15) Single digit ratings in the polls are not conducive to being elected.

[pissant]

I think that just as if Fred were to win, the conservative base will rally around him unlike we’ve not seen since Reagan. I sense a real hunger to dispatch with the political niceties and vagueness and “moderation” that Rudy, McCain and to a lesser extent, Romney represent.

Hunter’s challenge is to convince primary voters he has what it takes. Those that know him best believe 100% that he does. But now he has Fred to deal with as well, making it an even steeper uphill fight for the nomination.

However, no matter who wins the GOP primary, I believe the facts on the ground in Iraq will assure a GOP victory over the cut and run crowd who are pulling for defeat. The dems hvae positioned themselves out on a limb, and Bush, Petraeus and Co. are slowly sawing that limb off.

[cripplecreek]

I think a lot of other people are going to be attracted to the fact that he is a straight shooter who doesn’t talk like a typical politician.

I agree. It's great to hear a politician who isn't trying to tell all people what they want to hear. He says what he believes and lets the chips fall where they may.

[EGPWS]

There’s five good reasons in my book.

I agree 100% however reason #6 is a let down.

Electability...

[A_Tradition_Continues]

Hey, you forgot one....He's just another professional politician.

[trussell]

15) Single digit ratings in the polls are not conducive to being elected.

Very true, but I think he would make an excellent VP.

[Petronski]

I’m focusing on the good here. The good commending Hunter is very good. I’m leaving it at that.

[EGPWS]

He says what he believes and lets the chips fall where they may.

He needs to convey it so that the people want to hear it that way.

[EGPWS]

The good commending Hunter is very good.

I agree with you.

I'm just a realist at heart.

[cripplecreek]

He needs to convey it so that the people want to hear it that way.

So in other words be another generic politician?

[EGPWS]

So in other words be another generic politician?

He's got the beef, he just needs the dressing.

[cripplecreek]

I’m just not interested in any more triangulators.

[Paperdoll]

>The main disagreement with Duncan Hunter as the GOP standard bearer is no one wants to lose the election by Barry Goldwalter proportions.<

I think the reason that Barry Goldwalter lost the race against Johnson was because of that terrible ad the Johnson committee ran on TV about the little girl sitting in the field of flowers with an atomic bomb mushroom looming up behind the hill. I had three little girls, one of them just that age, and that ad turned me off, and I wasn’t the only one! The only time in my life that I didn’t work for a Republican presidential candidate, or vote for anyone in a presidential election.
That ad was really dirty pool!

[counterpunch]

Why were you so... gullible?
It should have turned you off to Johnson.

What if Hillary runs the “Daisy ad” against Fred (or Duncan, if you wish)?
Will you fall for it again?
Will it turn you off to them too?

[GOP_Raider]

I agree with you on most of this. I’m not sure if you were alive during the 1960 election (I wasn’t), but I’m really going to be curious about what would happen in debates for example between Duncan and, say, Obama, and if it would be a similar situation than Nixon had against Kennedy.

Also, someone who has been alive longer than I have might be able to shine some light on how previous candidates—at least candidates before Reagan—were supported, like Nixon’s runs, Goldwater, Ford, even Eisenhower and Bush 41.

Sidenote here: I have the sheer misfortune of being friends with a lot of DUmmies and Kos Kids, and they are under some delusion that Hillary will stumble at the Hawkeye Cauci and that Obama will be the nominee. In a lot of ways Obama scares me more than Hillary does. One of them is that you never know which election cycle will bring out the youth vote. I mean let’s face it, kids my age for the most part, aren’t real bright. Check out a block of MTV programming sometime. We’re stupid.

I’m preparing myself for just about anything at this point, and can the adults in America see what us stupid kids won’t? (That Duncan is the guy?)

[Sun]

John Kerry was 4% with 3 weeks to go.

I never could figure out why people are so poll geared, but that’s me. Ignore the polls and FIGHT for what’s RIGHT.

[Sun]

I’m always amused when I hear people say THEIR candidate supports building the fence and not even knowing that it was Duncan Hunter who wrote the bill that was signed into law to build that 854 mile fence.