Posted on 02/09/2010 10:20:01 AM PST by pissant
The 2010 elections are right around the corner. All conservatives must work tirelessly to nominate and elect candidates who will not only stop Obama’s socialist agenda dead in it’s tracks, but who will also reverse course on the Republican ‘slow drift’ socialism it has embarked upon since Reagan departed.
Though it may now appear too early to spend much effort lobbying for the right 2012 Presidential candidate, all one needs to do is glance through the headlines to understand that a gaggle of Republican politicians are already lining their coffers and elbowing for a place in the primary.
Examples? Sure.
Tim Pawlenty, governor of Minnesota, has set up his Freedom First PAC and has hired some of President Bush’s old campaign hands to steer him to victory. Yes, the same Tiny Tim who has spent much of his governorship tongue kissing the wacko environmentalists and who stated: “We should not spend time on voices that say climate change is not real” and “We should have listened to President Carter” (about energy policy). Zoinks!!
How about the old Newster? Gingrich is well positioned financially to make a run for the Presidency. He has hinted strongly he will do just that, even proclaiming himself to be considered a “frontrunner”, naturally. If his global warming couch-pimping with Nancy Pelosi wasn’t enough to compel a little bile into the back of conservatives’ throats, then his cross country treks with Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Al Sharpton singing the praises of Obama’s education policy should do the trick.
Mitt Romney has been busy as well, and will no doubt be running. He’s already the favorite of the GOP elite and the “it’s his turn” crowd. Of course, his flip flops are so numerous and spectacular, that he will be made into a Mitt sausage all over again, just like McCain did to him. It would be a miracle if the Obama camp isn’t already secretly shuffling donations his way.
Sarah Palin pretty much erased all doubt about her intention to run during her interview with Fox’s Chris Wallace. With a good percentage of the tea partiers solidly behind her, she could be a formidable force. Unfortunately, her inexperience regarding foreign policy is an Achilles heel, just as it is for Mitt Hucklenty. And she will certainly have to answer for some of the weak tea responses she gave the media as McCain’s VP selection.
Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, also is making lots of noise and has a Fox TV gig to promote himself. However, his inexplicable record of criminal pardons and commutations as governor once again reared its ugly head in 2009 – this time with 4 dead police officers – and he should seriously rethink his candidacy.
Others that are “maybes” to run include Rick “Vaccine” Perry of Texas (assuming he wins re-election), Lou Dobbs of CNN fame, Haley “Eminent Domain” Barbour, and Libertarians such as former NM governor Gary Johnson and Ron Paul.
With this in mind, it is incumbent upon conservatives to promote a rock-ribbed Reaganite instead. A rock-ribber without a PC bone in his body, who doesn’t moisten his finger or ‘focus group’ to help him determine his views, whose arm does not twist when the Party bosses come calling, and who has a certifiable, undeniable record of domestic and foreign policy conservatism. That man is Duncan Lee Hunter.
While it is true that Hunter, like several others mentioned above, ran for the 2008 nomination, it is also true that the rank and file GOP and independent voters largely wanted nothing to do with a return to conservative principles in 2007 and 2008. The absolute proof of this is that the 2008 frontrunners were named Giuliani, Romney and McCain throughout the entire campaign (with a late surge of panic for Huckabee).
Today is a different day. The guy Glenn Beck and Mike Reagan and Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin “really liked”, but “couldn’t win” is poised to reap the benefit of Americans finally waking up from their slumber and demanding a return to Constitutional governance and Reaganesque foreign policy. Duncan Hunter is the only likely candidate that comes close to satisfying this demand. But it is up to him and those that know this to get out in front of the train early and spread the word – that America can finish the revolution Reagan started if they support the right man for the job.
Hunter throughout his Congressional career advocated wholesale deletions of Federal departments and agencies such as the Department of Energy, the Department of Education and the NEA. He has an unvarnished record of opposing the drivel coming out of regulatory agencies such as the EPA and OSHA, and has pushed to slash their scope and funding. When asked this past January whether he still advocated getting rid of these dead weights, his response was “Oh absolutely!”
And Mr. Hunter delivered perhaps the finest defense of free market healthcare in the Congressional Record, dating back to the days when Clinton and Co. were pushing their version of socialized medicine. It can be found in it’s entirety at this link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2363325/posts
When it comes to amnesty and illegal aliens, even old Tom Tancredo didn’t promote the kind of toughness that Duncan Hunter advocated. That toughness not only included building a double fence separated by a Border Patrol road across all the smuggling corridors on the Mexican border, but insisted on the deportations of all illegal aliens as they are apprehended. A 2007 interview with PBS’s Judy Woodruff sheds light on Mr. Hunter’s unwillingness to bend on illegal Aliens:
JUDY WOODRUFF: You also have been adamant in saying that you think that the illegals, known illegals in this country should be deported. How do you go about finding them?
REP. DUNCAN HUNTER: Well, I think, to some degree, we’re like a boat that’s got a big hole in it, and we’re bailing water furiously. You have to plug the hole in the boat, which means you have to secure the border.
Once you secure the border, we have a deportation system, in fact, for people that say, “You can’t deport people by the thousands,” we deport thousands of people from this country every month! And if we don’t, if we don’t adhere to the law, the many people who are here right now, the millions of people who are here right now, who came in illegally after the amnesty of the 1980s, came in after the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House held up a big sign and we said, “This time we really mean it,” 1986, I believe. We said, “We really mean it. Nobody else can come in illegally.” And folks came in illegally and left tire tracks on those signs.
Regarding foreign policy, Ronald Reagan restored America’s confidence and superpower status after years of drift during the previous RINO and democrat administrations. George W. Bush provided a stop gap after Clinton and the supposed post Soviet Union “peace dividend”, but our nation is in dire need of increasing defense spending once more. Duncan Hunter vows to follow the Reagan model of “Peace through Strength”. Indeed, you can find no stauncher supporter for beefing up our Naval strength, increasing the size of our Army and Marine Corps, and perfecting our missile defense systems. Hunter is also adamant about America leading the world, especially our adversaries, in space based weaponry; something that President Obama foolishly has vowed not to pursue.
You can be sure of one thing. If Hunter had been nominated last time, he would have wiped the floor with Mr. Obama in the debates, unlike a very stiff and uncertain John McCain. You can be sure of another thing. If Duncan Hunter were president right now, Iran would have already halted its pursuit of nuclear weapons, one way or another. When Hunter stated in an interview last October that “the West must move quickly. I think the United States needs to destroy those facilities”, he meant it. And if Mr. Hunter were now president, the ever bellicose China would be far less bellicose, knowing they had an adversary who would never blink. As Hunter said in the same interview, “the storm on the horizon is clearly China”. This too, he meant.
In summary, the reawakening of the American people to finish the Reagan revolution, to return to the federal government back to its constitutional duties, to restore the confidence of our nation, to checkmate our adversaries, and to jealously protect our sovereignty calls out for a leader of exceptional fortitude and love of country. Duncan Hunter is that man.
(Part 2 will focus on economics and the poison of political correctness – stay tuned)
Jindal is good for Louisiana. . he is doing a very good job there. He doesn’t seem to be Presidential timber, not even VP timber.
Keep in mind that McCain's "win" was pre-arranged. (Just like Bob Dole).
Jindal is good for Louisiana.
Didn’t he give his approval to Mary Landreaux for the “Louisiana Purchase”?
I agree, Duncan Hunter is the best man to run for President since Ronald Reagan. I hope he finds a way to get the support that puts him in the running, if he tries again.
Going back to the GOP Debate in Iowa, The show of hands question on Climate Change - who’s hands do you see up or going up before Fred Thompson saves their butts with his were not doing hand shows reply?
Question - Is Global Climate Change a Serious threat and caused by man?
Yes (hands up) - McCain, Rudy, Huckabee, Romney.
Partially agrees - Hunter (based later on comments made)
Fred Thompson is the biggest reason (next to the media) that McCain won the primary.
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (CNN) - Fred Thompson made his first public appearance since dropping out of the presidential race Tuesday, using his conservative credentials to backstop a major speech Tuesday from presumptive Republican nominee John McCain on judicial appointments.
Thompson, seated behind McCain on stage and rocking back in his arm chair, grinned as McCain called him “an old and very dear friend”
After the speech, Thompson will attend a fundraiser, then take a ride on the Straight Talk Express with McCain and reporters.
When the former star of TV’s “Law and Order” series and newly-minted presidential candidate spoke to reporters on the porch of the Grand Hotel here, I asked Thompson whether he was proud of his role in enacting the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform legislation in ‘01.
“Yes,” replied the former Tennessee senator without hesitation.
Hunter does not partially agree with manmade global warming in the least. Never has. He said it was unknowable whether man made pollution has contibuted to the miniscule rise in temps
He was my first choice, too, last time around. I spent some time getting signatures to try to get him on the ballot in Virginia. We didn’t make it. He just didn’t light peoples’ fire. This time around (2012) I would like to see Dick Armey make a run. More name recognition; credibility on fiscal discipline, no negatives.
“This time around (2012) I would like to see Dick Armey make a run. More name recognition; credibility on fiscal discipline, no negatives.”
This is the crappola we are up against. People have NO clue who they’re voting for. They just fall back to the same old traitors who got us in this mess. Armey is an open border old fool and loves every lopsided trade deal to come down the pike!
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2010/02/beware-rinos-in-conservative.html
Most ‘republicans’ could care less if we get a conservative in office! They just want a ‘winner’, no matter how awful he/she might be. In 25 years of watching congress work, 2 men have come out of it worth a tinker’s damn...Duncan Hunter and Jim Inhofe.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2447690/posts?page=19#19
With the party groupies, major issues like our borders, the size of government, government corruption and government spending mean very little...In fact, most of them avoid these issues like the plague....For good reason.
I like Hunter and in fact, had the opportunity to meet his son at a gun show when he was running for office. But, I really have strong reservations about people who have no executive experience becoming President. Look at what we have now and before that JFK made a lot of mistakes when he first took office. Being a legislator is not the same as being an executive. If Hunter got some experience as a mayor or governor then I would have no problems. That being said, he’d be infinitely better than what we have.
Hunter got zero traction last time, but I suspect this time around Republicans are going to pay a lot more attention (which is not good for folks like Romney).
But, with Palin out there getting a lot of attention, I think our best hope to get the pair together on the ticket (though I do question if Palin is even running, or just giving the left a target).
That was part of the problem, but part of the problem was that Duncan Hunter never really fleshed out his positions on any issues other than (1) National Defense (2) the Border Fence, and (3) Trade with China. His website had some good positions and he made a prolife statement or two in the debates but other than that he didn’t really get a broad enough message out. I know that he has an excellent prolife record and lots of other good positions as well. However, he let himself be defined as a one dimensional candidate who only cared about defense, trade, and the border fence.
Well, that’s partly true. For 2 reasons. One, he did not have the $$ to run a series of ads to cover all the issues, and two, despite his efforts to spread the message, he was IGNORED completely by the MSM and the conservative media.
Just go back and find his Wyoming speech before a very enthusiastic crowd where he told them in detail his plans for energy - yes it included lots of Wyoming coal. (crickets)
He was one of the lead speakers at the big FairTax rally. He participated in the March for Life and other pro-life events. (crickets)
He gave a couple of stellar interviews on the 2nd Amendment to bloggers (crickets)
He was the only one to advocate the complete elimination of taxes on US manufacturers and said so in an awesome speech in Michigan(crickets)
He was the only one to stand up and defend Gen Peter Pace who came under fire from the lefties and pink mafia over his statement that homosexuality is immoral and incompatible with Military life (crickets)
He was the only one to demand Harry Reid resign for stating “we lost the war”. (crickets)
He was the staunchest advocate for freeing Ramos and Compean, the BP agents (crickets)
He was certainly the only one warning about China’s military (crickets)
He was the only one to come on to FR and give a wide ranging interview.
I wrote to Coulter, Malkin, Schlafly, Ingraham many times asking them to do a “women for Hunter” event. (crickets)
But you are correct. In the limited time he was given at debates or on TV, he had to repeat his main three points. But what were McCain’s main points? Uh, uh, I have no idea. Maybe earmark reform?
How about Mitt’s? RomneyCare? Executive experience?
Huck’s? I haven’t a clue, though he started aping Hunter’s ideas.
Rudy’s? National Security (why he thought he was qualified is beyond me, I don’t think he ever shot a bb gun).
Fred? Federalism?
We certainly can’t. And won’t.
With two sons who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan to boot.
I sure hope so. Hopefully 2010 will bring in enough conservatives to kill Obama’s agenda till then
Either could mitt, huck, fred, tanc, rudy.
That would be fine by me. Or DeMint in the mix.
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