Duncan Hunter on the Issues

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[Antoninus]

Duncan Hunter on Abortion
Voted NO on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (May 2005)
Voted YES on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions. (Apr 2005)
Voted YES on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)
Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mother’s life. (Oct 2003)
Voted YES on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (Feb 2003)
Voted YES on funding for health providers who don't provide abortion info. (Sep 2002)
Voted YES on banning Family Planning funding in US aid abroad. (May 2001)
Voted YES on federal crime to harm fetus while committing other crimes. (Apr 2001)
Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortions. (Apr 2000)
Voted YES on barring transporting minors to get an abortion. (Jun 1999)
Rated 0% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)

Duncan Hunter on Budget & Economy
Supports balanced budget amendment & line item veto. (Sep 1994)

Duncan Hunter on Civil Rights
Voted YES on making the PATRIOT Act permanent. (Dec 2005)
Voted YES on protecting the Pledge of Allegiance. (Sep 2004)
Voted YES on constitutional amendment prohibiting flag desecration. (Jun 2003)
Voted YES on banning gay adoptions in DC. (Jul 1999)
Voted YES on ending preferential treatment by race in college admissions. (May 1998)
Supports anti-flag desecration amendment. (Mar 2001)
Rated 7% by the ACLU, indicating an anti-civil rights voting record. (Dec 2002)

Duncan Hunter on Corporations
Voted YES on replacing illegal export tax breaks with $140B in new breaks. (Jun 2004)
Voted YES on Bankruptcy Overhaul requiring partial debt repayment. (Mar 2001)
Rated 83% by the US COC, indicating a pro-business voting record. (Dec 2003)

Duncan Hunter on Crime
Voted NO on funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. (Jun 2000)
Voted YES on more prosecution and sentencing for juvenile crime. (Jun 1999)
Voted NO on maintaining right of habeus corpus in Death Penalty Appeals. (Mar 1996)
Voted YES on making federal death penalty appeals harder. (Feb 1995)
Voted NO on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment. (Apr 1994)
Rated 30% by CURE, indicating anti-rehabilitation crime votes. (Dec 2000)
More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty. (Sep 1994)

Duncan Hunter on Drugs
Voted YES on military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism. (Sep 2001)
Voted YES on prohibiting needle exchange & medical marijuana in DC. (Oct 1999)
Voted YES on subjecting federal employees to random drug tests. (Sep 1998)

Duncan Hunter on Education
Voted NO on $84 million in grants for Black and Hispanic colleges. (Mar 2006)
Voted YES on allowing school prayer during the War on Terror. (Nov 2001)
Voted YES on requiring states to test students. (May 2001)
Voted YES on allowing vouchers in DC schools. (Aug 1998)
Voted YES on vouchers for private & parochial schools. (Nov 1997)
Voted YES on giving federal aid only to schools allowing voluntary prayer. (Mar 1994)
Rated 17% by the NEA, indicating anti-public education votes. (Dec 2003)
Supports a Constitutional Amendment for school prayer. (May 1997)

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[ArrogantBustard]

Not perfect (who is?), but looks pretty darn good.

[Antoninus]

Last, I have it on good authority that there is a wonderful group of individuals preparing to back Cong. Hunter when he decides to run!

I think we have to start a "Draft Hunter" caucus here on FR....

[Prokopton]

"Congressmen, however, with no name recognition and no executive experience do not get elected to the job.
Too bad. Aint gonna happen."

With a defeatist attitude like this, nothing positive is going to happen. BTW, I do remember a Senator, by the name of Kennedy, who I believe did become President.
If you just want to wring your hands at your impotence, fine. Some of us are willing to fight, even against the odds and the wishes of the MSM, to have our Country lead by a principled conservative. If you're scared of a fight, than get out of the way.

[WatchingInAmazement]

With a defeatist attitude like this, nothing positive is going to happen. BTW, I do remember a Senator, by the name of Kennedy, who I believe did become President. If you just want to wring your hands at your impotence, fine. Some of us are willing to fight, even against the odds and the wishes of the MSM, to have our Country lead by a principled conservative. If you're scared of a fight, than get out of the way.

Bears repeating!! That Lincoln guy was a former congressman also.

[WatchingInAmazement]

Finally, at long last, a REAL Republican with a brain who we can vote for! He will not get the seal of approval of the OBL, that's for sure. I would work for his campaign and support it financially, something I haven't done for a candidate in years.

Yes,ma'am!

[Antoninus]

A really good and decent guy, who most likely could do a fine job as POTUS.

Certainly sounds like it.

Congressmen, however, with no name recognition and no executive experience do not get elected to the job.

If that's the best knock his enemies have on him, he'll win in a landslide.

I checked Wikipedia for other knocks on him, and there's what appears to be a totally trumped up tax scandal on his "estate" and an attempt to tie him to Abrahmoff. Even with these, he defeated his Democrat opponent by 33% in a year when Republicans went down everywhere.

I really, really like this guy...

[Antoninus]

With a defeatist attitude like this, nothing positive is going to happen. BTW, I do remember a Senator, by the name of Kennedy, who I believe did become President. If you just want to wring your hands at your impotence, fine. Some of us are willing to fight, even against the odds and the wishes of the MSM, to have our Country lead by a principled conservative. If you're scared of a fight, than get out of the way.

Day-ummm! Nicely said.

[Prokopton]

"If that's the best knock his enemies have on him, he'll win in a landslide."

He will also be criticized for being against NAFTA and CAFTA and bending over to the Chinese. These are populist positions that could garner some serious support from conservative Democrats and Lou Dobb's type Democrats and Republicans.
I don't have a problem with these positions as "free trade" has definitely not worked out as fair trade, at least not fair to the U.S. This would, however, lose him some support from the NEOCONS.

[ElkGroveDan]

Well if Rudy decides not to run I might lean closely to Duncan Hunter.

That's kind of like saying, "If the bartender doesn't have any warm buttermilk, I'll have a glass of straight-up Bourbon on the rocks."

[Gideon Reader]

Yeah. me too.
Maybe he would be a better candidate for VPOTUS, supporting a candidate (I don't know who) who has a stronger electability factor.
It's NOT just me and you. There a bunch of folks in a bunch of states that NEVER heard of him and could care less about him cause he is not "pretty" or presidential looking. Not a Central casting type for POTUS.

[Gideon Reader]

Be real.
JFK had a lot of money, and an unscrupulous father with connections with the Mob. Stolen chicago brought the e,ection into his hands.

With Hunter you have the anthesis of JFK.
Honest.
Decent.
Not a skirt chaser.
Good military record
No mob connections and not willing to sell out anyone, anytime for anything.

I am not defeatist. Just savvy about what can be and what cannot be.

[ecurbh]

Has a congressman in the 20th century ever won a presidential election?

James Garfield was the only person ever elected President directly from the House of Representatives, back in 1881.

[SoCalPol]

Duncan Hunter is one of our 5 congressmen in Sn Diego and is the real deal.

Also Vietnam vet and son a Marine with 2 tours in Iraq

[Prokopton]

"There a bunch of folks in a bunch of states that NEVER heard of him and could care less about him cause he is not "pretty" or presidential looking. Not a Central casting type for POTUS."

Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan were certainly not "pretty" nor really "central casting types" for POTUS.
It's time we got off this "yea but here's a reason against it" type of thinking and instead focus on the goal, a principled conservative President, and started working towards that goal. Worrying about why things won't work gets us nowhere.

[Prokopton]

"I am not defeatist. Just savvy about what can be and what cannot be."

Yea, the "savvy" people, including Rove and the RNC, who told us they had to support liberals, like Chafee, instead of putting their support behind conservatives, are what got us the last election results. No thanks!

[Antoninus]

I am not defeatist. Just savvy about what can be and what cannot be.

Disqualifying a well qualified guy because he's not a slime bag (like JFK) or because he lacks some media-defined pedigree or requirements (CAN'T be from the House) is pretty defeatist if you ask me.

When people find out what Hunter stands for, they WILL get excited. The base of the GOP is dying for a candidate like this...

[Antoninus]

I am not defeatist. Just savvy about what can be and what cannot be.

Disqualifying a well qualified guy because he's not a slime bag (like JFK) or because he lacks some media-defined pedigree or requirements (CAN'T be from the House) is pretty defeatist if you ask me.

When people find out what Hunter stands for, they WILL get excited. The base of the GOP is dying for a candidate like this...

[Antoninus]

Yea, the "savvy" people, including Rove and the RNC, who told us they had to support liberals, like Chafee, instead of putting their support behind conservatives, are what got us the last election results. No thanks!

We sure "savvied" ourselves into the minority in Congress, didn't we?

[Antoninus]

That's kind of like saying, "If the bartender doesn't have any warm buttermilk, I'll have a glass of straight-up Bourbon on the rocks."

LOL. I really cannot fathom the Rudy fans at all. I think they're the politics/party over principals people. They have some unbelievably misinformed idea that Rudy can win a national election and are on the bandwagon for no other reason than that--the fact that Rudy's a liberal be damned.