Posted on 02/07/2007 9:50:33 AM PST by pissant
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.
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)
More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty. (Sep 1994)
Duncan Hunter on Energy & Oil :
Voted YES on scheduling permitting for new oil refinieries. (Jun 2006)
Voted YES on authorizing construction of new oil refineries. (Oct 2005)
Voted YES on passage of the Bush Administration national energy policy. (Jun 2004)
Voted YES on implementing Bush-Cheney national energy policy. (Nov 2003)
Voted NO on raising CAFE standards; incentives for alternative fuels. (Aug 2001)
Voted NO on prohibiting oil drilling & development in ANWR. (Aug 2001)
Voted NO on starting implementation of Kyoto Protocol. (Jun 2000)
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I don't understand. I'm pretty certain that was the bill passed by Congress and signed by the President. I hope you don't think he should have voted no.
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Do you know anything about this, Antoninus?
Actually what I see is a groundswell of support amongst die-hard Conservatives to hang themselves with their own rope.
I'd be more than happy to entertain Mr. Hunter's candidacy, if only to hear what he has to say and to see if anything he puts forward can advance the political debate above it's current schoolyard "oh yeah?" quality.
Having said that, all things comsidered, Hunter cannot:
a) Charm the press like McPain (my worst nightmare!)
b) Raise the capital or build the organization to make a serious run
c) Cut across party lines like Guiliani and possibly Romney
d) Instill as much confidence as Gingrich
e) Even on his best day, make people think of he and RR in the same daydream
While the list is certainly impressive, it won't win him a general election, Ann Coulter's fawning admiration notwithstanding.
Interesting. There are a few points I disagree with, but largely agree. Potentially good candidate.
My concern is that it is allowed with the exception. I have to guess at this point that Hunter thought it was better than no law at all. Still, I would like to know what he has to say about it, if anything.
Looks good as always, except this one. Does this mean he wanted to keep the travel ban even AFTER the prisoners were released? Or does it mean he wanted people to be able to travel there BEFORE the prisoners were released?
I'd love to see an extensive comparison of Hunter's positions on core issues compared to the GOP front-runners like Guliani, McCain, Romney et.al. (barf) as well as the Sociocrats front-runners Hitlery, etc (gag). I think it would be very enlightening. Thanks for posting this info.
what are his 2nd amendment views???....none are here.
Yes, but who is Duncan Hunter? I don't know him. Never have seen him. Don't have a clue about his credentials to be our President, and I'm an avid reader. Surely a person needs to have some public recognition in order to become POTUS.
No, that real world is where a republican can win, not a fur-breasted-Onward-Christian-Soldiers type of...ahem...conservative, who talks the talk and then is beaten into submission by the reality that this country is, after all, a republic, and not his private sandbox.
The exception for the life, not the health, of the mother was included.
I can remember when a young punk named Clinton came into the lead as the Democratic nomination. I was asking my friends , who in the hell is Bill Clinton. I'd never heard that name before. Well guess who one that year? Hunter has two years to get name recognition. Don't be so negative. He may be the only Conservative running. Aloha
I completely understand and agree with you on this. I think Hunter, along with almost every other well-meaning pro-life politician, probably fell into the "exception" trap. Everyone pretty much agrees that banning partial birth abortion is a good thing, but they don't stop to think that in the long term, bills banning certain abortions actually ALLOW abortions in other cases. That means that even if Roe v. Wade is overturned, we're gonna have to undo years of "pro-life" legislation to stop abortion.
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Yes. I agree there's a difference.
I fully support Hunter, btw.
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