Nobody in the public has even heard of Duncan Hunter and his race is getting NO attention.
He simply does not even have a slim, not even a slight, chance.
"President Hunter" just sets up the jokes and comical TV ads anyway.
do a google on these guys. Time to get familiar with more than just what the press keeps putting out there to vote for.
..there is another candidate--and perhaps will be more before the process is through--mayor Rudy does not have it locked...
Plenty of people said the Berlin wall would never come down, too. Great things never happen when small minded people are put in charge. Frankly, the only delusion is on the part of those who think that a pro-gay, pro-abortion, anti-gun, pro-environazi candidate who sees California as a microcosm of mainstream America has a chance of being elected as a Republican.
"QUESTION FOR DISCUSSION - Are Rudy and Mitt in a battle for the anti-McCain crowd? Or are Mitt and McCain duking it out to be the STOP RUDY candidate?"
Neither one! Duncan Hunter is the man the base wants. This will show more and more as polls go by.
You claim to be a conservative, then support a conservative until he is bumped out.
Mitt/Giulian/McCain are all the same. They only vary by degrees. What you should be doing is focusing on puching a conservative and if he doesn't make it out of the primary. THEN push the GOP Candidate. What is so hard to understand there?
Well, I have held my nose and voted only once in my life. in '06. Being only 29 I realize my track record of choosing whether to vote for the 'lesser of two evils' (and i HATE tht terminology; more like the lesser of two liberals) I've had on whole, perhaps, less repulsive choices which is why 2006 was the first and only time I felt miserable casting a vote.
I'm not interested in a repeat performance. It's a conservative, or at least someone who is not a politician at their core or no one. Rudy, mcCain and romney are politicians.
Rudy is a Liberal politician that has it right on the war. He's basically Leiberman. I support Leiberman. As a member of the Democratic party. I have NEVER joined others in wishing he'd switch parties. If Rudy ran as a Dem tough on Defense and the netroots actually let him through while Reps nominated McCain or Romney? I'd vote Rudy. but i will NOT endorse the further liberalization of the GOP by endorsing a Liberal Republican for Prez.
McCain has no ideology other then whatever he believes best serves HIS efforts to be the would be King of America.
Romney will track in whatever direction he needs to, flip flopping all about, to get the political office he desires. He'll be conservative in Utah, liberal when running in MASS, then become more conservative in mass because he's running for the GOP primar vote nationally. Who the hell know what he'd do if he made it the the general election or even won the W.H. Which audience would he cater to? History suggests NOT conservatives.
So if you want my vote to keep a Dem out, hunter is the best option to support and help gain recognition. perfect? nope. but he does at very least have a fairly consistent conservative track record spanning decades on most of the key issues to the different GOP segments; spending is the main problematic area and that could be handled with a willingness to use a VETO.
The only oher area he may be deemed to have trouble is free trade, but the tradeoff is that his position would be appealing to the conservative block of Indy's/dems that turned on reps this last year. Reagan Dems. Blue collar Dems. Call 'em what you want, that stance would attract them. I'm willing to bet in greater numbers then free traders in the GOP are turned off.
If you can show me a better conservative candidate for '08, I'll listen. But promoting the other three will not get ANY support from this quarter.
Was Bill Clinton a "national household name" in 1991? How about Jimmy Carter in 1975?
But I suppose that there's no reason for the facts to get in the way of campaigning for liberal RINOs.
Rodomila Who?
Hell will freeze over before I vote for Mitt, McQueeg, or Rudy. I'll vote conservative and if the GOP doesn't want my vote, it'll follow your lead. I'd rather take a bullet than this death of a thousand cuts we're living through.
Actually I just finished up listening to the congressman on WRKO. He sounded pretty good to me. He answered questions directly.