Rudy Duncan --------------- ----------------------- Pro-abort Pro-life Gun grabber Pro-2nd amendment Pro-queer Pro-traditional family Pro-RINO Conservative Lots 'o baggage Just a small carryon :)Duncan Hunter is the ONLY declared conservative in the race.
Primaries are about philosophy, general elections are about parties.
There are FReepers on here trying to portray Rudy as a "conservative." In no way is Rudy a conservative. If elected there isn't a doubt in my mind that he would vigorously pursue the War On Terror. But his domestic policies, especially his social policies, would be a disaster for this country.
And for those who claim Duncan Hunter has no name recognition, let me remind you that Bill Clinton had no name recognition starting off either. It CAN be done. How 'bout, instead of complaining that Mr. Hunter has no name recognition or money, donating to his campaign and doing what you can to spread his name and conservative agenda.
I sure wish Mark Sanford would get into the race. He's a conservative who has the executive experience to mount a vigorous challenge to the current GOP frontrunners. I like Hunter on the issues, but he's a real longshot.
In 1988, Bill Clinton was chosen to deliver the introduction to the presidential nominee. This is a VERY important spot; one much coveted by "rising stars" of each party. Unfortunately for Bill and more so, for Dukakis, he rambled on and on, so that the once scheduled PRIME TIME appearance of the nominee, was pushed off into a time when most people had long ago shut off the set and gone to bed.
In order to "save" himself, burnish a now tarnished reputation, and promote himself and Dukakis, Bill went on every late night show and every talk show he could badger his way on. He turned on the charm and became *gasp* WELL KNOWN!
DESIGNING WOMEN, a very well watched show, was written by two of the Clintons best friends. Such FOBs, that they designed and produced that dreadful "MAN FROM HOPE" film, that was constantly shown during Bill's first run for the presidency. Over the years, Clinton's name was dropped into that show's scripts, talking him up and saying what wonderful things he had and was doing for Arkansas.
Unlike Duncan, Bill had tons of political backing and BIG MONEY MEN backers.
Baggage? Is an ongoing investigation, which is being sort of hushed up, but can be found on line, if you look for it, investigation of Hunter and two of his staff, linking him with Cunningham and Duke's corrupt practices, now just a "carryon"? And this may be just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
Hunter can claim that he is as conservative as anyone could possibly be; however, he is a terrible speaker...wooden, monotone, ( unless he is staging a cheesy bash a Toyota product, to a teensy audience in the House ) and utterly lacking in charisma. He has NO big gun political backing, has no BIG MONEY backing and isn't about to get any, and has yet to even look into hiring a big time team.
And his protectionism is going to keep him from getting the backing he needs, but which he has already fore sworn, claiming that he doesn't need the kind of money that he needs.
By all means, support him, if you want to, but try to face reality. Unless all of his supporters on FR are many times over multimillionaires/billionaires and have friends who are and who are willing to support his candidacy with great gobs of money, time, and effort, his primary run is going nowhere.