>They were right about that Moderates Dole and Thompson tried to toss the platform out in 1996. Thompson called it “useless” and abortion a “distracting issue”.<
Right, Howard Baker, is Thompson’s mentor-advisor even today. Thompson advocated tossing the platform and alienated the GOP’S Conservative base. (Thompson has allegedly flip flopped on his former position on abortion for the 08 election. The RNC has continued to distance itself from traditional Conservatives like Duncan Hunter, and may embrace moderate CFR member, Fred Dalton Thompson.)
Then Karl Rove came up with the “Compassionate Conservative” label for moderate, George W. Bush in 1999, and the Christian Conservative swallowed it enough to defeat Al Gore at all costs.
Rather than discard NAFTA, Bush has pushed it to the limit by leaving our ports and borders wide open for just anyone to come in, which had previously been unthinkable especially during wartime.
So it is high time for damage control to return to the oval office for the first time since Ronald Reagan, with a capable, no nonsense man dedicated to restoring the country’s prosperity by bringing home the good jobs, building the double border fence, overturning Roe vs Wade, and restructuring trade with China to turn our trade deficit around.
At last the true Conservatives have the quintessential candidate in Duncan Hunter! Are they smart enough to realize it?
I hope and pray they will snap out of their stupor.
I believe that the Values Voter Debate in Fort Lauderdale on Monday night is going to be long remembered as a truly historic event.
And, in my opnion, those whom the media has dubbed the “frontrunners” have made an error they will not recover from by refusing to be there.