Lewis E. Meyer was awarded three military medals yesterday, two Purple Hearts and a Prisoner of War Medal, during the ceremony on the Midway. Navy Rear Adm. William French pinned the medals; former Rep. Duncan Hunter (right) attended.
Posted on 01/09/2010 9:15:48 PM PST by pissant
Lewis E. Meyer was awarded three military medals yesterday, two Purple Hearts and a Prisoner of War Medal, during the ceremony on the Midway. Navy Rear Adm. William French pinned the medals; former Rep. Duncan Hunter (right) attended.
IMHO Duncan Hunter is the man who should be sitting in the White House today.
Damn, what a different world it would be
DH PING
In case you missed it...
Duncan Hunter Interview - Dec. 18, 2009: On Christmas Blessings, the Gay Agenda, and Don Rumsfeld
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412548/posts
Duncan Hunter Interview - Dec 8, 2009: On Huckabee, the EPA, GOP Amnesty Hacks, and Harry Reid!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404824/posts
Duncan Hunter Interview 12-01-2009: Obama’s Weak Speech, SEALS, ClimateGate, and Shrinking Uncle Sam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2398503/posts
Duncan Hunter Interview 11-17-09: Terrorist Trials in NY, Amnesty, Sarah Palin and More!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2391044/posts
Duncan Hunter Interview 11-10-09: Gunny Pop, Afghanistan, Terrorism & Political Correctness!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2384405/posts
Duncan Hunter – Nov. 4, 2009: On the 2009 Elections, Global Warming Alarmists, and Ronald Reagan!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2378862/posts
Duncan Hunter – October 27, 2009: On ObamaCare, RomneyCare and Americans!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2372627/posts
Duncan Hunter 10/9/09 Interview. Bomb Iran, confront China, and work to defeat Socialism!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2360735/posts
That would be an incredible upset and a very good thing. He’s got my support.
Keep up the great interviews PA! Maybe DH can get you 20 minutes with JD in the coming months?
Damn. I didn’t know Hunter was an undercover RINO.
Here are the links for Duncan’s warrior candidates;
Nick Popaditch California’s 51st District
http://www.popaditchforcongress.com/
Jesse Kelly Arizona’s 8th District
http://www.votejessekelly.com/
Vaughn Ward Idaho’s 1st District
http://www.vaughnward.com/Home
An undercover rino?
HUNTER IS A PATRIOT AND THE CHARGERS ARE GOING TO WIN bttt
“Undercover RINO” may be too harsh. How about party hack?
From the interview:
AJM: Yes sir! This next question is related and it is a little bit touchier. And that is what about conservatives challenging established moderates in the party for their seats?
DH: It depends. I’ve always been cool to that approach, because we end up with a limited number of bullets and we end up shooting each other. Republicans can’t afford to do that, generally. So if you’ve got some fairly scarce ammunition and you can use it in a district where $50 thousand or $75 thousand might mean a 2% win for a Republican, like the Nick Popaditch district, why would you go over and spend a million trying to knock out a Republican in a safe Republican seat?
That approach has always left me a little cool. And behind that approach, to some degree, is of course the self interest of folks who want to take a Republican seat, that want to get a political seat for themselves, so they end up stirring up a fight with a Republican incumbent who at least makes that first vote in the right column. And that is the vote for Speaker. And if you have a Republican majority, you should always have a conservative speaker, because the majority of the Republican Party is conservative. So if you have a Connecticut liberal like Nancy Johnson or a social liberal like Rob Simmons, who is otherwise good on defense, and that person would vote for, say, a Newt Gingrich for Speaker of the House. So it’s much more worthwhile to expend your ammunition trying to take back a district that is held by a Democrat then shooting at each other – and I say that as a staunch conservative – shooting at other republicans when your ammunition is scarce when it’s going to take an all out effort to simply win a majority.
AJM: I understand that position, and that is the good Republican position. Now I’m going to ask you to put on your conservative hat. What happens in the instances when a moderate IS challenged by a conservative? Obviously certain moderates, oh I would say like a Lincoln Chafee, is really quite left actually as opposed to moderate. But in this case specifically, I heard today that JD Hayworth, your old buddy from Congress, is going to challenge John McCain for his Senate seat.
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What you were asking me about, though, was the practicality of using scarce ammunition to shoot our own soldiers. And my answer to that is, that it is not a practical thing to do.
[On the NY23 race]
Now, you called me with a lot of enthusiasm about having a 3rd candidate when we had a Republican candidate and had a democrat candidate in that NY district 23. I think that, wasn’t that the McHugh district?
AJM: Yes. McHugh moved onto the Administration…
DH: What I told you probably would happen, or had a chance of happening, occurred. That is, we ended up having a split. From a Democrat’s strategy point of view, they loved it when the Republicans basically had a split. Then the Republican nominee, who did something entirely inappropriate, which was to endorse the democrat. So the one thing that could keep the democrats in control of that particular seat occurred.
So at some point, here’s what you have: You have to win! Winning is important. So when you only have so much ammo, you want to ensure every bullet is expended to achieve maximum leverage.”
So I take it that Hunter would have preferred for Hoffman not to have challenged Scozzy in NY23. Hunter says Scozzy did “something entirely inappropriate.” Taking $1M then stabbing the party in the back in much more than “inappropriate.”
To 10 - Probably because he is not.
Duncan Hunter is a Republican so he supports the team even if he doesn’t agree with all of them. If you are a part of a team, you don’t root for your opponents. I thought he explained himself quite well.
Folks like you really need to cease with this unrealistic notion that the GOP can become a 100% undiluted conservative body.
I'm sure, rae4palin, that you and I believe the same regarding 99% of the issues. Yet I understand that others, including Republicans and Indies, may not.
The emphasis should be on regaining House and Senate majorities and instilling conservatives at the leadership positions.
By the way, I see nothing Hunter has stated here that Reagan would have disagreed with.
I’m not trying to be a jerk (fail?) but I think Hunter — who I’ve always loved — takes the entirely wrong message from NY23. Hunter endorsed Scozzy. He doesn’t get it.
From an 11/4/09 interview:
DH: One big disappointment, of course, was that the John McHugh seat was taken by a democrat (NY-23). That race was a good example of the fact that politics never comes wrapped in neat packages. The Republican nominee, as you know, ultimately endorsed the democrat after she pulled out and after the conservative Hoffman was endorsed by the party…
AJM: Exactly, that was no surprise to those of us that thought she (Scozzafava) was a bad choice up front. He ended up losing 49 to 45%, with 6% going to the republican even though she dropped out. The other factor that helped sink Mr. Hoffman was the fact that the RNC and the NRCC had put up $900,000 to Scozzafava before she dropped out, and ran attack ads on him. So he was up against it. He hung in there but he lost. Kind of like you thought he might. I got the impression, you said last week that whenever a conservative is not aligned with the Republicans; the democrats are quote unquote – “licking their chops”. That’s what you said.
DH: Well, with the split, the mathematics hurt you. It was inevitable that she would get some Republican votes that would have normally gone to the conservative. If we would have had a unified republican line there, we would have done better.
link to interview: http://conservativecentral.us/?p=893
Good, because you are not.
I was remiss in not stating that I don't agree with Hunter in regard to Scozzafava. I don't believe she would have been a reliable vote on any issues crucial to Republicans.
We, conservatives, are not all going to agree with each other at times. It's easy to sit back and insist that all Republican candidates be clones of Jesse Helms, another story when one actually has to seek donations, campaign and win the election.
This is why having a person such as Sarah Palin in the Oval office is so important. Like Reagan, I believe she will be adept at winning over recalcitrant Republicans in Congress. This would prove much more difficult, if those members are Democrats. And getting legislation passed, and judges seated, is the goal, or should be.
By the way, in the most recent issue of The American Spectator is a brief update on Doug Hoffman. Asked if he might run again he smiled and replied, 'I have Sarah Palin's phone number'.
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