What a load of BS. Rudy is the one that the ‘RLC wants as their nominee’. The establishment is dead set against Fred Thompson. Conservatives like me drafted Fred Thompson, because we wanted a viable conservative to vote for in this primary.
While it may be romantic to you to feel all persecuted and helpless at the mercy of the media, but Duncan’s position right now isn’t anyone else’s fault but Duncan Hunter’s.
If Duncan Hunter had been organized or possessed the qualities that people are looking for in a presidential candidate, he would have made a splash at Ames and would be where Mike Huckabee is now. He didn’t and he blew his only chance to get noticed.
You can blame the media all you want, but the facts are the facts.
Bump to your excellent post.
“Personally, I find Thompson’s more federalist stance far closer to my definition that Hunter’s protectionist-lite pork-barrel version. While I certainly consider Hunter an acceptable candidate, I do not — as do many others — consider him the best candidate.” And I agree with this from kevkrom’s #18.
Finding Hunter acceptable does not make him the best. It isn’t worth the time to disagree with the Hunterites MOST of the time. They are too adamant and usually don’t listen to anyone but themselves. But these posts were excellent and spot on right.
I don’t think Hunter could win under any circumstances.
It is not just Duncan Hunter, it is any conservative. You look at all the liberal media polls and make your decision on who they say can win, which is always going to be a person that is not going to change the slide into socialism that we are on. If they report that someone is “unelectable” it is invariably a constitutional conservative yet they never say this about looney lefties and in certain districts they get elected! The people now believe these polls that they put out and so they vote for the “lesser of two evils”. There is an example where the people ignored the media however but at the time there was no Free Republic and just the beginnings of the internet—That was Reagan. They made the statement about him but it was one of the first times they had tried that scenario and they were ignored. However the public has basically gone for it since Bush I. Do I have to drag up several thousand posts on this site which people like you have rationalized “that we have to believe the liberal media that a true constitutional conservative is unelectable so I will support the RINO “lesser of two evils” candidate! The pollsters are not independant they are paid! If you drum in that a certain person is ahead long enough the sheeple will gravitate to vote for that person because they want to “vote of a winner”. The RLC is globalist so only RINO’s need apply but sometimes you do have to say that you are a “Compasionate Conservative” to get elected but then you don’t do much you talk about it and keep on with the globalist agenda — as W has done.
Ravenstar