Ping.
I'll probably vote for Hunter in the primary but I'll vote for whoever the "R" is in the general. Unfortunately I don't see the so called front running metropublicans standing much of a chance.
Romney, McCain, and Giuliani are RINOs and hence less likely to win against Hillary, Obama, et al. The MSM will therefore shine the spotlight on them.
I tend to agree with you, but prepare to be flamed.
The new GOP has decided it will jettison the social and fiscal conservatives.
My #1 issue is border/Immigration....but I didn't even realize Hunter and Tacredro are offocially running. I think I've heard their names mentioned now and then....I know nothing about them.
If the current front-runners are the evils from which we have to choose, IMO the lesser evil will be to stay home and abstain.
However, there is indeed plenty of time for the candidates to get sorted out for the better. IMO, Brownback is our best hope, but he has got to correct his position on illegal immigration and come up with a REALLY GOOD excuse why he appeared to have gotten it wrong before. There is a place for loyaty to Bush, but not when he is as wrong as he is when it comes to immigration.
"John McCain, despite his strong conservative rating from the ACU (lifetime of 83), he is partially responsibility for the travesty of McCain-Feingold, aka CFR"
The Gang of 14 should NOT be forgotten either - again McCain singlehandedly radicalizes our judicial process and screws the Constitution.
I seriously doubt that I could vote for him under ANY circumstance.
I don't get to vote for any of the guys you mention like Hunter or Brownback. The Republican nominee will be decided early on by Republicans in states that have early primaries. The only difference I could make is to send money to the candidate of my choice which I will do. However, I think all those guys are running for second place (VP) and I'm pretty sure a strong conservative will get the nod by Rudy or John just to placate us.
Perhaps because FReepers care more about our nation's defense and limiting the size of government than about social issues a President has little control over and that Congressional Republicans did nothing to advance?
Why bother voting for "the lesser of two evils". It doesn't matter who you vote for, the Lizard Queen will be coronated.
Cthulu could beat the Lizard Queen. He has more power than she does. Cthulu can eat your soul. Vote for him and he will eat yours last.
So for me, it's Duncan Hunter!
Additionally, many like myself have a particular disdain for candidates that emanate from the legislative branch, especially the senate.
These guys' "frontrunnerdom" is a gift of the lying, self-interested MSM spinmeisters.
The New York Times pulled this same crap by booming up Nelson Rockefeller in the 1960's. On the eve of the 1964 convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco that nominated the great Barry Goldwater, pollsters asked likely or already-chosen delegates to the convention two questions:
The delegates' answers were, Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller. Rockefeller had nothing like the delegate support Goldwater did, but the Timesmen succeeded in sowing enough doubt among conservative delegates by their incessant spinning, that a Rockefeller coup d'etat in the convention could have worked.
That's what liberals do. They lie, then they cheat and steal.
Oh, and then later on they recriminate and cover up and point fingers and send people to reeducation camps.
***he is partially responsibility for the travesty of McCain-Feingold, aka CFR. He is also a supporter of amnesty. ****
Yeah : His name is on the bill so I guess he is a little more than partially responsible.
I am not so concerned that he sponsored CFR, anyone can amke a mistake. The part that worries me now is that haiving seen that mistake he ahs done nothing to correct. Its as thoug he knows that CFR took away constitutional rights ,but he doesnt care. CFR needs adjustment, McCain hasne made any effort to correct the wrongs of it, therefore he supports those wrongs.
The nomination process is unacceptable. Candidates are chosen way too soon.
I'd rather elect Hillary than vote for Giuliani.
Hunter is the best all-around candidate. Combat veteran, conservative principles, persona, outspoken nature, son who served in Iraq in regards to the current war.
Just some background info on Hunter and his outspoken nature to go where not many(I don't think any) Republicans go with their spineless nature.
Hunter on Abu Ghraib(courtesyhttp://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3128goss_hunter_block.html : )
Probably the single loudest obstructionist voice in the House of Representatives in support of the Cheneyac "Beastman" policy in Iraq has been Armed Services Committee chairman Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.). Hunter has been able to use his position to block any meaningful inquiry into the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and at every public opportunity, has railed against those who are demanding such an investigation. He even went after his GOP counterpart in the Senate, John Warner (Va.), for holding three hearings in two weeks on the scandal, practically accusing Warner of treason.
Under great public pressure, Hunter has since held one hearing, for part of one day, and has no intention of having any more. During debate on the Fiscal Year 2005 Defense Authorization bill, on May 19, Hunter declared, "We have had enormous publicity the last number of days about the mess at Abu Ghraib. I estimated we have probably devoted as much media attention to that mess involving now, as identified, some seven personnel, as we did to the Normandy invasion. And that is an imbalance. It is time to refocus." What did he want to refocus on? "The 135,000 great personnel doing their job in Iraq."
On June 14, when the committee took up a resolution of inquiry sponsored by some 40 Democrats, demanding the Pentagon be more forthcoming with documents relating to the prison scandal, Hunter placed the 6,000 pages of the report on the abuse and torture of prisoners filed by U.S. Army General Anthony Taguba (the Taguba Report) on a table at the head of the hearing room and railed at the Democrats, "Isn't that enough for you?"
Hunter on Guantanamo(courtesy http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050613-033125-4935r.htm:)
California Republican Duncan Hunter held a press conference to discuss the treatment of detainees at the island jail, and spent his opening statement going over a daily menu for prisoners that included oven-fried chicken and fresh fruit.
"This is what Osama bin Laden's bodyguards will eat several times a week. Lemon chicken, rice, broccoli, carrots, bread and two types of fruit," Hunter said, inviting a reporter to come eat with him.
Hunter was digging himself out of small hole he got into over the weekend when he said on a news program that the White House is divided over whether to close the jail.
"I think they've come to the conclusion, some members of the White House have come to the conclusion that the legend now, that the legend is different than the fact, and when that's the case you go with the legend that somehow Guantanamo has been a place of abuse and you close it down and you shorten the stories, you shorten the heated debate and you get it off the table and you move on," he said.
For the first (but not last) time in this election cycle:
EVERY vote is for the lesser of two evils.