Nope, we had two perfectly good conservative candidates, Fred and Hunter, the RINOs pretended that they didn’t exist. They were swiftboated by omission.
Nonsense.
They didn’t get the votes. See... that’s the important part. Nobody can “un-vote” for anybody. Voting is an action that people take. Not enough people took that action with regard to Fred or Duncan. So they’re gone.
Blaming others and getting all emotional doesn’t help anybody.
That's an incredibly bizarre new definition of being "swiftboated." Any candidate who fails to get any traction can claim your definition.
Hunter was in the race from the beginning, and never got over 2%. There are arguably 60% conservatives in our party, but certainly close to 50% at least.
So apparently 49% of the conservatives didn’t back that “perfectly good candidate”, Duncan Hunter. So if you want to blame somebody, start with the 49% of the conservatives who didn’t support him before going after all the RINOs who probably never even HEARD of him.
Oh, and I think the Hunter people will be attacking those of you “so-called conservatives” who rather than supporting a solid conservative like Hunter, went out and drafted a guy who had not expressed any interest in the job, Fred Thompson.
If ANY conservatives have a right to scream bloody murder about back-stabbing and malfeasance, it is the Hunter supporters who had to put up with people EVERY DAY saying “Hunter’s a great conservative and a fine candidate BUT”, while they were all sending money to a guy who wasn’t running trying to talk him into it.
Me, if I had a choice between Hunter and Romney, I would choose Romney. Not because he was “more conservative”, but because on places of disagreement, I liked Romney’s position better, and because Romney had executive experience. But I never attacked Hunter other than to note the fact of his lack of executive experience in explaining my position.
Of course, I didn’t support Romney when he first entered either. And I was on the bandwagon for Fred Thompson, so I’m at fault on that one. I thought it would be easier to get Fred elected than to fight for Romney.
we had two perfectly good conservative candidates, Fred and Hunter, the RINOs pretended that they didn’t exist.
We had two perfectly good conservative candidates, Fred and Hunter, who did not know how to campaign. There fixed it.
Well I’ll give you a thumbs up, if only because you blame voters, not the MSM.
I’m sick of that as an excuse for why [fill in the blank] didn’t win the nomination.