davidosborne wrote: “...the only arguments I hear against Duncan Hunter is that he can’t win because no one knows who he is.”
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Duncan Hunter has also taken some heat from the National Taxpayers Union, which ranked him dead last among the GOP presidential hopefuls for fiscal restraint (Fred Thompson was ranked first).
http://race42008.com/2007/03/24/fiscally-fisking-the-2008-contenders/
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If Hunter were to be nominated, the Demoncrats will try to paint him as unethical, claiming that he accepted nearly a quarter million dollars in campaign contributions from missile defense contractors over the past five years, including $46,000 from un-indicted co-conspirators implicated in bribing Hunter’s friend and San Diego colleague, Randy “Duke” Cunningham, who resigned from Congress after pleading guilty. Cunnningham is now serving time in prison for influence peddling.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Congressman_tied_to_contractors_bribery_coconspirators_1214.html
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Are these charges fair? No. Aren’t the Dims using guilt by association to smear Hunter? Absolutely. They’re Demoncrats, afer all. This is what they do, and they have the drive-by media in their pockets to help them do it. Just ask former Virginia Senator George F. Allen how effective the Dims are at it.
I’m not so sure the Rats would try to smear Hunter with that. If you check into it you’ll find that the defense contractor in question donated far more to top Demonrats and in fact every single member of the armed services committee received campaign funds from him.
The investigation into any possible wrong doing found none on any of them.
The Rats would be foolish to try to play that game.