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Vanity: THE GOP nominee for '08; His name is Duncan Hunter
bushfamfan | 11/24/06 | bushfamfan

Posted on 11/24/2006 5:28:09 AM PST by bushfamfan

I just want to have a thread to discuss House Rep. Duncan Hunter who is going to be one of our GOP nominees. Seems as if a lot of people on FR are complaining about our choices for 2008 when this great man is going to be in the race as well. I just think he needs to get some coverage and wanted to start this thread.

He is the man conservatives should get behind and I think he deserves his own thread to remind us that we do have a great candidate this time if we'd only realize it.

http://www.house.gov/hunter/


TOPICS: US: California; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: aliens; duncanhunter; elections; gopnominees; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; president
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To: Paul Ross

Oh no! Not the "I'm rubber and you're glue!" defense! What will I ever do?

Do yourself a favor: beat your head against the wall. It can't possibly cause any more brain damage then you already have, and it feels so good when you stop.


221 posted on 11/24/2006 3:05:22 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: zbigreddogz
Flat out false. Graf's opponent was in favor of guest workers and earned citizenship.

After saying they were against Amnesty, and then confusing the issue...about who was who on "reform".

So your position, and interpretation is "flat out false."

The RATs nationwide in all the seat take-away situations were on a thematically common page. Scripted.

222 posted on 11/24/2006 3:06:15 PM PST by Paul Ross
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To: Mr. Jeeves

I agree with your overall assessment, but I totally disagree with your application. Schwartzenegger's appeal is totally different from the other people you mentioned, and he's also much too left. He's easily to the left of Giuliani and McCain, who are a lot more conservative on most issues then they are given credit for.

I don't actually think his endorsement means all that much, I don't even know if he'll get involved.

I do agree that Mitt Romney has some of what you are speaking of.


223 posted on 11/24/2006 3:07:54 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: zbigreddogz
zbigreddogz hasn't created an about page.

Guess that you have already shown us what real brain damage looks like. Must be contagious. RINO.

224 posted on 11/24/2006 3:08:16 PM PST by Paul Ross
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To: Paul Ross
After saying they were against Amnesty, and then confusing the issue

You are really hilarious. You remind me of Howard Dean. You keep essentially posting saying, "Yah, you're right, but YAAHHHHHHGGGGGG!!!!"

225 posted on 11/24/2006 3:09:13 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: Paul Ross
And the response to the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut was what beyond rhetoric?

I liked Cap too, and maybe I'm missing something there, but damned if I can see what it was.

226 posted on 11/24/2006 3:11:53 PM PST by onedoug
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To: zbigreddogz
Ah! The reverse name-calling defence. My guy is just like Reagan, therefore, since Reagan was good/electable/in favor of X policy, you are either for me, or against Reagan. Problem is, the guy is never really like Reagan,

Except Duncan Hunter IS, ideologically, like Reagan. Peace through strength is his byward.

the policy is usually not like Reagan

Your argument doesn't fly against Hunter, RINO.

and the arguement is therefore meaningless.

Your argument is, you mean. Note, you never did refute the facts of that analogy.

It's a tactic for the intellectually bankrupt ...

Again your argument is bankrupt. And your spelling is atrocious! LOL! RINO!

227 posted on 11/24/2006 3:13:27 PM PST by Paul Ross
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To: gonewt
"Hate to say it, but if the goal is purely to defeat Hillary, it's going to boil down to Giuliani or McCain."

I would agree. I am putting my bets on Guliani even though he has some liberal issues that not all conservatives agree with. However, when you consider what's inside the trojan horse, Hillary, you had better make up your mind that it's anyone but Hillery. Make no mistake, this nation cannot afford another Clinton; especially a far left socialist commie Hillary.

228 posted on 11/24/2006 3:17:24 PM PST by jonrick46
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To: onedoug
I liked Cap too, and maybe I'm missing something there, but damned if I can see what it was.

Did you read the entire interview? Doesn't sound like it!

There was an-in-depth explanation of what the posture was...and the internal fractures in the policy. There was no mission. There was no political possibility of having a real mission. We were in the middle of a genocidal civil war...where one of the sides clearly didn't want us there at all.

There were much bigger fish to fry...the Soviets who were angling in the region to smear us. And there was no initial understanding of Iran's complicity in hitting us. Not for YEARS. Cap was all for hitting who ever did it. But it wasn't a straightforward "we did it" situation.

It was a one-man suicide run. The "finger-prints" of Iran took a lot longer to piece together.

229 posted on 11/24/2006 3:20:31 PM PST by Paul Ross
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To: gonewt
..if the goal is purely to defeat Hillary

That negative approach is essentially defeatist. Hence, it is not the goal, of course. The GOAL is to elect an honest, upright...and solidly conservative President who will do his best to restore America. Limiting Government. Preserving Liberty. Restoring National Security.

When we nominated Reagan in 1980 it was for all the right reasons. But none of the RINOs thought for a second that we would actually succeed, and defeat a sitting RAT President. They were hoping that we would go down in flames...and that they would then be rid of Reagan and his movement.

Now, here we are again, after nothing but RINOs being put up by the GOP...Bush I (who started betraying his promises to Reagan without much ado by '91), Bob Dole, Bush II, and now you only want to give us a worthless "choice" between two clearly unacceptables as the "choice"?

230 posted on 11/24/2006 3:30:25 PM PST by Paul Ross
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Hillary doesn't have it, either, but she could fake it better than Hunter.

Doubt it very much. She has proven incapable of going off script. Hunter has shown an ability to debate.

231 posted on 11/24/2006 3:34:01 PM PST by Paul Ross
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To: WatchingInAmazement
Have you noticed how the same open border minority posters are the very same ones that just can't stand the thought of Duncan Hunter?

I am four-square against the OBL, and while I would love it if a true conservative like Hunter could win, I don't think any House Member, however gifted, can make it without additional qualifications.

232 posted on 11/24/2006 3:42:22 PM PST by Plutarch (To GWB: OBL >> GOP.)
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To: bushfamfan
Hunter picked up an early endorsement from U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., a bit of a surprise because of the expected candidacy of that state's GOP Sen. John McCain.

"I have had the privilege of serving ... with Duncan Hunter and know him to be the John Wayne of Congress," Franks said in explaining the endorsement. "He is a man of genuine compassion for humanity and a formidable soldier of freedom."

Franks added that his decision to back Hunter rather than McCain was made because of his "belief that during a time of war political calculations should not decide who someone endorses."

"Duncan Hunter's leadership is right for America," Franks said.


Interesting.
233 posted on 11/24/2006 3:42:32 PM PST by visualops (artlife.us)
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To: bushfamfan

pro-Duncan bump!


234 posted on 11/24/2006 3:48:52 PM PST by newzjunkey
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To: bushfamfan

I'm open to him, but I don't know that much about him and I've never heard him speak. Do you have any links to audio or video?

We could use another credible candidate. Right now we got the guy who's a bit too off his rocker, the guy who's a bit too liberal, and the guy who's a bit too Mormon.


235 posted on 11/24/2006 3:50:22 PM PST by I Hired Craig Livingstone
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To: Paul Ross

Pan-Islamism existed long before that. Tell it to the Marines, one guesses.


236 posted on 11/24/2006 3:58:01 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Plutarch
I would love it if a true conservative like Hunter could win,

OKAY. Let's leave the doubts aside then.

I don't think any House Member, however gifted, can make it without additional qualifications.

Maybe he won't. But maybe he will. It depends on how vigorously and solidly he gets the conservative base behind him. If we have a solid base of support...that doesn't waver...the RINOs will split the field between them...and pave the way for our success.

As against Hitlery...I think it would be a challenge. I don't think any of us dream of it being otherwise.

But God provides. And that...is where our Faith has to be. Not in Liberal MSM-designated "Princes"...who supposedly can "win". Do we have the courage of our convictions?

237 posted on 11/24/2006 3:59:20 PM PST by Paul Ross
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To: visualops
Hunter picked up an early endorsement from U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., a bit of a surprise because of the expected candidacy of that state's GOP Sen. John McCain. "I have had the privilege of serving ... with Duncan Hunter and know him to be the John Wayne of Congress," Franks said in explaining the endorsement. "He is a man of genuine compassion for humanity and a formidable soldier of freedom." Franks added that his decision to back Hunter rather than McCain was made because of his "belief that during a time of war political calculations should not decide who someone endorses." "Duncan Hunter's leadership is right for America," Franks said.

Is that quote in the article, why am I not finding it? Thanks!

238 posted on 11/24/2006 4:09:31 PM PST by WatchingInAmazement ("Nothing is more expensive than cheap labor," prof. Vernon Briggs, labor economist Cornell Un.)
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To: Paul Ross
Not Liberal MSM-designated "Princes"...who supposedly can "win".

That unknown House Members do not get nominated or elected President predates the MSA, and has nothing to do with it.

239 posted on 11/24/2006 4:41:38 PM PST by Plutarch (To GWB: OBL >> GOP.)
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To: Gideon Reader

Love your VP picks of Coburn and Steele!


240 posted on 11/24/2006 5:49:42 PM PST by Norman Bates
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