Rep.Duncan Hunter Exploring Presidential Run

Roger Hedgecock Show ^ | 29 OCTOBER 2006 | NEDRA PICKLER, Jimmy Vaentine

[logician2u]

As I finish my final two years as chairman of the Armed Services Committee . . "

A little presumptuous, maybe?

[Pelham]

Whom will a candidate Hunter choose as veep?

[Netizen]

Hunter puts special interests ahead of the defense of the natio.

Open borders puts illegals ahead of the citizens. Your point is?

[IslandJeff]

Probably McCain or maybe someone like Hagel or Giuliani.

Not that any of the aforementioned could stand being second on the ticket.

I'm liking this, thus far. His timing is good - when conservative grassrooters are at full attention.

[Pelham]

yeesh. I hope not.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

I am not quite sure whether you are proposing anarchy or absolutism, but I am not a customer for either.

Neither am I, but many of the FReepers who are treating Duncan Hunter as the Second Coming are the same ones who are saying that the present Congress is utterly unacceptable because of its spending habits--and Duncan Hunter has played that game as much as it can be played, because he's willing to trade somebody else's pork-barrel waste for matters near and dear to his heart.

The disconnect, to put it mildly, is breath-taking.

[Netizen]

Please find any member of Congress who has never voted for an appropriation bill which has included any appropriation at all for projects in his district. All you are saying is that Hunter has held pulic office. That is not totally disqualifying, you know!

You know how it is. If the candidate of choice is a third party candidate, then the disqualifying catch phrase is 'the candidate should have held an elected office'. If the candidate is a real conservative that DOES hold an elected office, then the disqualifying catch phrase is that 'he isn't perfect enough and that he is bound to have made a mistake, somewhere along the line in his career'.

Now, if having held an elected position is a bad thing in their eyes, what criteria do they want?

[Netizen]

That is an excellent post full of information. Thanks for posting it!

[Netizen]

T'sk. Actually, it was not a grammatical error so much as a typo...I intended to type "you're" instead of "your."

That's perfectly understandable. Done it myself a few times. What's funny is when you realize you've typed a word you never even intended to type! lol

[rippingmyhairout]

Hunter is a good man. He is everything that John SKerry could only dream of being.

[Netizen]

Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), with bipartisan support, introduced legislation yesterday that would scuttle the deal; mandate that the owners of "critical infrastructure" in the United States, including ports, highways and power plants, be American; and demand that cargo entering U.S. ports be screened within six months of passage.

That bears repeating! Port security is VERY close to my heart too...

Agreed. If the president wants to outsource security, let him start with his secret service agents. /sarcasm

[Paul Ross]

Hunter is a good man. He is everything that John SKerry could only dream of being.

Bump.

No kidding. I would stack Hunter's Bronze Star up against Kerry's bogus Purple Hearts any day of the week. He has a son serving in Iraq right now.

And Kerry really stepped in it this week saying that "students need to study hard to get good jobs, or they would get stuck in Iraq."!?!!

Implying a host of demeaning pejoratives against our U.S. Services and Serviceman who have answered the call...volunteers not draftees....in defense of our country.

[Paul Ross]

If your solution includes spending no money on national defense at all, yes that solution is off the table.

BUMP!

The RINOs are almost as bad as the RATs when it comes to underfunding, gutting, and unilaterally disarming the Defense of this country.

They are equally LIBERAL.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

A little presumptuous, maybe?

I think you must have misunderstood. Huinter has been elected to several 2 year terms as Chairman of the Committee. Under the rules, the current term is the last one he can be elected to, and he is now about to finish that term. His only 'presumption' is to presume that he will be alive for the next 2 months, and will not resign or be removed as chairman before Christmas. Not all that presumptious.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

the same ones who are saying that the present Congress is utterly unacceptable because of its spending habits

The problem is with the failure to control total spending on less than necessary projects, not with an individual taking part in the legislative process.

[KenmcG414]

From what I've seen of this man, he seems to be a man of integrity and guts. He is one of few GOP pols who shows leadership. Good luck to him!!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Oops, upon further reading, it is clear that Rep. Hunter is also presuming that he and the GOP majority will be elected next week, which is presumptuous I suppose, but these days all candidates make that presumption, both false humility and frank analysis of their prospects being politically unacceptable.

[radar101]

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