Posted on 02/14/2007 7:28:54 PM PST by rodomila
I used to think Free Republic was a site with mostly rational people. I can't understand why so many of you waste your time with Duncan Hunter fantasies. Really folks hallucinogenic drugs are illegal and bad for you too. Stop taking them !!! No one outside of the Hunter family and this website thinks he has the remotest chance of being elected President. The Ronald Reagan comparisons are idiotic. Reagan had been a two term Governor of the largest state in the nation. He had been a national household name for over 40 years when he ran in 1980. God only made one Ronald Reagan. Duncan Hunter, although he is a solid Congressman, is no Ronald Reagan. I'm a conservative and I would love to have a viable conservative to work for this election cycle. But we don't have one. McCain is a no go for me. I loathe the treacherous man and believe he is non-compos mentis (loony). That leaves Mitt and Rudy. Newt's entry would hopefully pull the other two to the right (which would be great), and he might even win the nomination (which would probably be bad as I don't think he would win the general election).
That would leave us with Hildebeast or even worse B. Hussein Obama. Therefore, although I'm pro-life, pro-gun, and anti the mainstreaming of homosexuality, I am trying to decide between Rudy and Mitt.
For me the war on islamo nazi psychos is the top issue and Rudy gets my vote on that one.
Issue two is finding a candidate who won't give in to global warming hysteria because that is the lefties preferred path currently to world government and destruction of our economic system. I have to look into Mitt's position on this because Rudy made some rather discouraging comments on this recently (although they were not as bad as originally reported here.)
Next is immigration. We need someone to enforce our laws and get control of the borders. Mitt seems to the right of Rudy on this but both have a way to go. Maybe Tancredo in the race can generate some movement.
Taxes - we need to keep the Bush tax cuts at the very minimum and hopefully get a bolder overhaul of the system.
Judges - we want young Scalias.
Spending restraint - I'm hoping that both, as successful businessmen, will hold the line on spending better than GWB who was a total disappointment in this area.
Let's try to move the viable candidates closer to us on the issues rather than engage in self defeating fantasies of "ideal" candidates who no one has ever heard of and who have never run any larger organization than a Congressman's staff.
Did anybody ever do an analysis on the volume of government contract work Rossie boy got after the election?
I have always thought that Duncan Hunter was really running for President so that he could be a realistic nominee for Vice President.
Giuliani or Romney will need a running mate that settles the social conservatives down, while still being well spoken and principled.
Hunter is not the only potential guy for this - Brownback and Huckabee and others might fill this bill also.
I like Duncan but he is hardly local....being from San Diego, he is not that well known in the state unless you follow politics....
never heard of such an analysis.
rudy who?,mitt who?
What completely amazes me is how everyone felt so doggone courageous being united against a incompetent fop like Bill Clinton, but we can't seem to muster the courage to put aside petty differences and unite against a life or death enemy like Al Qaeda and Radical Islam. Absolutely embarrassingly disappointing.
Because he is a good man, a good conservative and has a right to run in the primaries just as another other candidate does
That is what the Primaries are about .. and let the best man win
Or so I thought that was what it was all about
grrr
another other = any other
Disappointed, but not surprised.
No free beer for rudy types! :)
I know the manager at the beer store, he hooks me up with free 12-packs oncein a while. Yeah, i prefer the Boston lager, too, but neither are my favorite.
There are MANY good men.
But very few men who can win.
That's what it's all about.
It's a start!
He sure had an awful lot of it beforehand.
Stop exaggerating, it's 1%!
http://www.pollingreport.com/wh08rep.htm
But he's STUCK. Get it?
:-)
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What does this mean? (Not intended as snarky, i just don't understand.)
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