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"Duncan Hunter... If you are saying that a Real Republican doesn't deserve your support, then get the hell out of the Republican party and register as a Democrat."

Then according to you, 99% of the Republicans aren't Republicans, because in a recent poll, Ducan Hunter got less than 1% of the vote. Duncan Hunter came in that last with so few votes, it didn't even register.

So who is the one who is out of touch with Republicans, you or the 99% Republicans?

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2007/01/postabc_poll_clinton_giuliani.html

Rudy Giuliani 34

John McCain 27

Mitt Romney 9

Newt Gingrich 9

George Pataki 2

Sam Brownback 1

Jim Gilmore 1

Mike Huckabee 1

Ron Paul 1

Tom Tancredo 1

Tommy Thompson 1

Chuck Hagel *

Duncan Hunter *

If you are saying that a Real Republican doesn't deserve your support, then get the hell out of the Republican party and register as a Democrat.

I'd have to call that a knock-out punch! ;^ ) Well said!

I figure that a lot of people are dubious regarding the name recognition of Hunter, about whom I know nothing.

I hope Hillary runs because however it goes, she guarantees good for Republicans:
She wins and sure as sunrise, she'll quickly become hated, suspected, loathed, and so enormously unpopular as to make Democrats seriously impotent. She will be a one-term disaster.
She loses thus the Republicans win. If Hillary actually becomes the nominee, she will be so detestable to a majority of American voters that they will be very receptive to ideas more than name recogition and familiarity in a "viable" oponent.

I say we go for it and use the primaries to put in a "Real Republican." My personal ideas of a "real Republican" include (but are not limited to!!!):
-- against gun control
-- proponent of free market fiscal conservatism and minimal taxes
-- sees that the Western world is in a terrorist war with radical Islam and that it will not fade away, but must be faced and conquered
-- has the honesty and guts to declare, "Americans are not aggressively intolerant of homosexuality; they have mostly discreetly regarded sexual orientation irrelevant and private. Therefore, NEITHER should Americans be intimidated by government policy into accepting or embracing homosexuality as part of our popular culture."
-- deeply comprehends that any philosophy that calls for government invasion of such matters as health and medicine and subsequent mandating of insurance, lifestyle, and diet behavior, are repugnant to Republicanism.

BOTTOM LINE: Republican core values should be to limit government and expand personal freedom and responsibility, economically and personally. Those values are the common denominator of the "right" stand on virtually every issue, whether it's national health insurance, the right to bear arms, free speech, judges, etc.