Open Letter to the New Hampshire GOP – Choose the Real Conservative, Duncan Hunter

Every presidential election season, your state, by virtue of its early primary vote, has the opportunity to help shape the election going forward. At times, you were the antidote to the Iowa Caucuses. In 1980, Iowa chose moderate GHW Bush, New Hampshire chose Ronald Reagan, giving the Gipper a much needed boost. For that, we are eternally grateful. In 1996, you bucked the polls and chose Pat Buchanan over the milquetoast Bob Dole. Though Buchanan had and has his own issues, the one area where he did trump all the others was a real understanding what illegal immigration was doing to our country. Now, 12 years later, that problem that Buchanan warned about has come home to roost. And you have the opportunity to select a candidate that has been even more stalwart than Buchanan, or anyone else in politics for the last 26 years for that matter, on fighting the scourge of illegal immigration. Duncan Hunter even opposed the 1986 Reagan Amnesty (Simpson –Mazzoli), something Buchanan was pushing as Reagan’s Communications Director. As Pat found out, Hunter’s arm don’t twist.

Whereas Mr. Buchanan has managed to put himself into the fringes of the Republican Party in recent years, Hunter has held true to the Reagan vision of Peace through Strength, confronting our enemies, and shrinking the federal leviathan, in addition to being the true leader on immigration reform.

Hunter is the only candidate who understands that communist China is preparing for war, while we foolishly allow massive transfers of technology and manufacturing prowess to move from our shores to theirs. Hunter vociferously opposed Clinton’s ‘Permanent Normal Trade Relations’ gift to the chicoms, while Fred Thompson, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee all supported it.

China is not some land of consequence-free cheap labor, as the Wall Street Journal deems it. They demand technology for setting up shop on their soil. And many companies that have developed that technology through the hard work of American workers, have been all too eager to ‘share’ those trade secrets in order to boost short term profits. And what the Chinese do not get from the agreements with these outfits, they steal through industrial espionage, and have been doing so for many years. The current administration turns a blind eye to this malfeasance, and has yet to levy a consequential sanction on the communists for their continued piracy of 95% of our software (costing US companies billions in sales) and intellectual property. On top of all this, they devalue their currency to make their products more affordable than they already would be, with the long term goal of undermining US manufacturing. It is a game of world dominance the Chinese are playing, and only Duncan Hunter recognizes it, and vows to stop it dead in its tracks.

Mitt Romney cannot even find the courage to criticize his former company, Bain Capital, for partnering with a Peoples Liberation Army backed outfit to buy up 3COM, an American company that provides the Pentagon with critical security systems!!

But China is not the only threat. The current war against the islamo-fascists is still in its infancy. And aside from assuring complete victory in the battles for Afghanistan and Iraq, Duncan Hunter is the one man who will not bow to liberal and world opinion on how to fight this long war. Real human intelligence is one of the keys, and having Mike Huckabee and John McCain prancing around in front of the TV cameras calling for an end to waterboarding and for closing Gitmo because it “makes us look bad” is utter stupidity. Huckabee can almost be excused, since he has zero foreign policy experience and claims the NY Times’ Thomas Friedman as one of his mentors on foreign affairs. But McCain not only led the foolish fight to ban ‘torture’ – a crock in itself, which thankfully Duncan Hunter managed to insert some wiggle room – he was part and parcel of the cabal that was attempting to put our military’s intel under another layer of bureaucracy to satisfy the fools on the 9-11 commission, and he led the charge to give terrorist detainees Geneva Convention rights. Hunter fought and successfully defended the military’s position on these as well. As for Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, they do not have a clue about military history, military capabilities, enemy combatants, military tribunals, our intelligence apparatus, or how to fire a Daisy BB gun for that matter.

While Hunter voluntarily suspended his college education to join the Army Rangers in Vietnam, the rest of the pack, other than McCain, found convenient ways to keep themselves out of harm’s way.

But if domestic policy is how you base your vote, that too should recommend Duncan Hunter.

No one is stronger on the second Amendment than Hunter. McCain and Romney and Rudy should be dismissed over this topic alone.

And for tax cuts, Hunter’s record is unmatched in the field. Huckabee, Romney, Rudy and McCain don’t even come close. Thompson is good, but certainly not better. Hunter vows to lower the taxes on our domestic manufacturers to zero, a move that would do more for the re-industrialization of America than anything the CATO Institute or the Wall Street Journal ever came up with.

Dealing with the farce called global warming, only Hunter stands out. The rest have succumbed to some measure of alarmism that would make Algore proud. McCain, Rudy, Mitt, and Huckabee all raised their hands at the last Iowa debate when the moderator asked for a show of hands for those who thought global warming was a ‘serious problem’. Huck and McCain vow to institute a mandatory ‘cap and trade’ system for CO2 emissions. And despite his defiance during that debate, Fred Thompson has the worst record of any of the candidates, co-sponsoring the most onerous global warming legislation in our nation’s history with his Title X Climate Change Policy in 2002.

On the sanctity of life and fighting the gay agenda, no one, not even Mr. Huckabee compares favorably to Duncan Hunter. Hunter has sponsored legislation for decades to give the unborn full constitutional protection. And he led the charge against the creeping gay agenda of Clinton’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy for our nation’s military, while the RINOs all folded.

And the surest way to decapitate the Department of Education, OSHA, the EPA and the Department of Energy, four of the most onerous bureaucracies in the federal arsenal, as well as the useless NEA, is to elect Duncan Hunter. Only Hunter is on record for wanting to either severely slash or eliminate these agencies. Huckabee wants to provide for more arts and music in the schools, McCain is an EPA cheerleader, and Thompson for all of his government reform reputation, voted in funding for the NEA after they agreed to spread their goodies to rural areas. Go figure.

Fellow Republicans, you won’t find Hunter conjuring up ways to keep you from smoking in public, pushing to ban kids from eating Twinkies in school, proposing illegal alien Amnesty under some bucolic misnomer, attending a global warming summit, instituting mandatory health insurance, or signing away our sovereignty for the sake of some UN inspired security measure; but you will find him hard at work everyday to increase the size and lethality of our Armed Forces, building a double border fence on our southern border, kicking communists in the teeth – whether they are in Beijing or Caracas, and changing our tax policies to stimulate the manufacturing sector.

Ronald Wilson Reagan is not around to cast a vote this year, but he surely would be happy to see one of his staunchest allies elected in 2008. So join with Michael Reagan, Ann Coulter, Chuck Yeager, the late great Henry Hyde and Joseph Farrah, and let’s win another for the Gipper.

Here’s a snapshot from Intrade today. There is evidence that Hunter is gaining ground in Iowa.

For the Iowa caucus, Thompson is at the bottom of the pack, Romney has regained the lead from Huckabee. Ron Paul and Hunter are both embedded together, so there’s no way of knowing if he’s gaining ground, but on the basis of the president.field contract moving, I’d say he’s probably at ~0.3 and Ron Paul is at ~4.8, which puts Hunter ahead of Thompson.

Caucus
REP.IOWA.HUCKABEE
Mike Huckabee to Win M 45.0 46.0 45.0 1690 +5.0
REP.IOWA.ROMNEY
Mitt Romney to Win M 40.2 54.9 50.0 1960 0
REP.IOWA.THOMPSON(F)
Fred Thompson to Win M 0.1 1.4 0.1 642 -1.4
REP.IOWA.MCCAIN
John McCain to Win M 0.6 4.4 0.2 860 -2.8
REP.IOWA.GIULIANI
Rudy Giuliani to Win M - 0.1 0.1 701 0

REP.IOWA.FIELD
Field (any other individual) to Win M 4.7 5.9 4.8 1384 +1.0

2008.PRES.FIELD
Field (any other candidate) to win 2008 US Presidential Election M 0.2 0.3 0.2 14910 +0.1

According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts

Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts

In this poll Hunter is up 3% and even with Paul and Thompson.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=3481ef60-8195-46a9-af04-b87b907bcfdd

>>>>And many companies that have developed that technology through the hard work of American workers, have been all too eager to ‘share’ those trade secrets in order to boost short term profits.

Example:

http://blog.barofintegrity.us/2007/10/23/chinas-space-program.aspx

Excerpt:

Wah! We are now a space power

ANALYSIS BY AZMI SHAROM

YOU might not know this, but there have been a lot of unhappy rumblings in Malaysian society regarding our space programme.

Actually, that is not accurate. We don’t really have a “space programme”, do we? After all, it’s not like we are pushing the technological frontiers and designing cutting-edge manned spacecraft.

No, to be more precise, we have an astronaut-training programme. Whoa, whoa, that is not true either. We didn’t train anyone; we paid the Russians to train our astronaut.

Oh, blow it all. That is still wrong. He is not an astronaut; he is a cosmonaut. The terms, according to Nasa, mean different things but, according to the Russians (and us), they mean the same thing.

Oh, this is all so confusing. All right, all right, let us start over again.

You might not know this, but there have been a lot of unhappy rumblings in Malaysian society regarding our paying the Russians buckets of money – the amount of which the Malaysian public is not 100% sure about – to train a bloke to be a spaceman (as accurate a definition I can think of, because he is a man and he is in space).

Yes, it is true. This wonderful achievement of the country – to find a handsome, clean-cut, healthy, intelligent fellow and pay someone else to get him into space – is being sneered at in some cynical quarters.

If you happen to be one of those people, I say to you: tsk, tsk, tsk. Where is your sense of patriotism? Where is your child-like optimism?

Going into space is a big deal. Just ask Dennis Tito and Mark Shuttleworth, two space tourists who did not have the luxury of buying Russian jet fighters to contra the costs of their cosmic flights. Coincidentally, one of the nasty things people are calling our Malaysian spaceman is “space tourist”.

For your information, unlike the two gentlemen mentioned above, our spaceman is not a tourist. No, no, no. He is going to do experiments, important experiments.

More at link.

I ran across this. Hunter is SO good on being able to comment perfectly from the heart and history.

Inspiration is the fuel that this country runs on

http://votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=112489&keyword=&phrase=&contain=

MOURNING THE PASSING OF PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN — (House of Representatives - June 08, 2004)

Comments of Duncan Hunter:

We have short memories, Mr. Speaker; and President Reagan was not always popular, especially with the media and often with our European allies. I can remember in the 1980s, when he responded to the Soviet Union’s ringing Western Europe with the SS-20 missiles and he started to move those Persian missiles and ground launch cruise missiles into Europe to offset the Soviet strength of their strategic programs and their intermediate range ballistic missiles that they were moving in. And there were massive demonstrations against Ronald Reagan and against those who supported him in Europe and lots of sniping by the press in this country.

And yet because of that strength and because he rebuilt national security, the Russians at one point, especially after the Reykjavik summit when he refused to give up the Strategic Defense Initiative, that is missile defense, the right of Americans to defend themselves against incoming ballistic missiles, after he did that, there was lots of hand-wringing among the elite media and lots of our European allies who said, there it goes, the last chance for peace, and lo and behold, the Russians picked up the phone and said, can we talk?

Ronald Reagan at that point started to negotiate with the Soviet Union, and not just to negotiate a peace, but to negotiate the disassembly of the Soviet empire, the tear-down of the Soviet empire, which is manifest today in numerous free states where once there was one state ruled by tyranny.

Mr. Speaker, I remember the gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis) was present as one of our senior members, and the gentleman from California (Mr. Herger) had not been elected yet, along with the gentleman from California (Mr. Thomas) and the gentleman from California (Mr. Dreier), and Bob Lagomarsino, and John Rousselot, and Chip Pashayan, and my colleague Bill Lowery, and Bobby Fever, new Republicans who had come in in the Reagan win of 1980, and the President invited us to Blair House. The President invited us to Blair House even while President Carter was still in the White House. We were standing in the foyer, celebrated this victory of our Commander-in-Chief-to-be because he had not been sworn in yet, and the President-elect came down the stairs, and he talked to us about being up on his ranch in Santa Barbara and killing an especially big rattlesnake the day before while he was cutting brush. We had a great time talking with the President-elect. After a while he said, I am tired, I am going to go upstairs and hit the hay. He said, you guys turn off the lights when you leave. He went right upstairs; we continued to have a good time.

That represented that western hospitality, that great charm that Ronald Reagan had that brought so many people, attracted so many people, even people of very different political persuasion.

My son Sam was not even born in those days when we first came in. I remember the picture of the cowboy that the President drew for my other son Duncan, who is now a United States marine and deployed overseas.

I think the one thing that this President sold in boatloads was inspiration. He was great at inspiration. He realized a little secret, and that is this country runs on inspiration. Whether it is the markets or the economy or people deciding whether or not they are going to join the uniformed services, inspiration is the fuel that this country runs on, and that is something that Ronald Reagan had an endless supply of.

He was tough during the tough times. You have to have good endurance to be a good President, and he had great endurance. He was able to handle the difficult times, the times when he was not real popular, and outlast his critics. It has been kind of fun in the last couple of days to watch people who criticized him very severely to seem now to remember that he was not such a bad guy after all. Not only was he not such a bad guy, but he brought this country together as a family. He was, of course, the head of the family.

It is a time for us to mourn this President, but also to celebrate his great life and the big piece of this life that he gave to our Nation. I will never forget when I was first running for Congress, I was practicing law on behalf of a barbershop on the waterfront in San Diego. My dad came in and said, you can be a Member of Congress. He said, Ronald Reagan is running. He is going to run on a platform of national defense and jobs, and in San Diego that is the same thing. I said, what do I need to start running? He said, we need one thing; you need a picture with Ronald Reagan, and we are going to go up and get it, and we went up and got it in L.A. That launched my foray into politics. So many of us won that year who had no chance of winning because we were riding along with a guy named Ronald Reagan.

Let us take a message and a lesson from this great American and proceed ahead with optimism and with dedication to the idea that you get peace through strength. That was a trademark of Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy. I think we are following it with this President. I think we need to stay the course and stay steady.

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