Duncan Hunter's Long-Shot Conservative Bid

RealClearPolitics ^ | George Will

[Antoninus]

WASHINGTON -- When Bob Hunter, a Riverside, Calif., businessman, would hear of a conservative's campaign that needed volunteers, he would pile his family into the station wagon and drive off to ring doorbells. Hunter's son Duncan grew up believing in retail politics.

When Hunter returned home after serving as an alternate Goldwater delegate at the 1964 Republican convention in San Francisco, he told Duncan about chatting with another alternate, an amiable fellow, some actor, named Reagan. Who two years later was elected governor. Duncan learned early on about rapid upward mobility in politics.

In 1969, he dropped out of college, joined the army and was sent to Vietnam. From there he mailed his pay to a friend who purchased for him an island in Idaho's Snake River, where Duncan farmed after his discharge. Then another friend said a San Diego law school would admit him without a college degree. In 1980 he was a lawyer with a storefront office in San Diego's Hispanic community when his father walked in and told him he could be a congressman. Never mind, his father said, that this district was only 29 percent Republican. Reagan was at the top of the ticket.

Duncan says his Baptist minister, respecting the separation of church and state, told parishioners they should vote for the Reagan of their choice. They distributed 400,000 Duncan brochures. Today Duncan is in his 14th term representing eastern San Diego County. Three weeks ago he formally launched his presidential candidacy.

Why does he think he can become the first House member elected president since James Garfield in 1880? Why does he think he can do better than the two strongest House candidates in recent elections?...

"For some candidates,'' Hunter says, "the conservative constituency is an inconvenience. For me, it is my hope.''

[Paul Ross]

Well, if it is your turn, you better find a candidate. Duncan Hunter ain't it.

Yes he is.

His record proves it. He is rock-solid on national security, (including defense procurement and troop funding) Border security, and liberty, tax reform, He espouses the Big Issues. Unlike every single RINO running with the MSM blessing...he could comfortably give "The Speech".

He was there from the beginning.

And that brings to mind an old favorite...the Time for Choosing speech. It bears re-reading..think how much it reflects negatively on the defensive apologia's about "prosperity" being our security ...made so brashly and zealously by the Clintonites...and now their successors...?

[Lando Lincoln]

Duncan Hunter

[Antoninus]

However, you and other Hunter supporters won't do the same for any other GOP candidate.

Not true. I'd support Newt. I'd support Huckabee. I'd support Brownback. I'd support Cox. It just so happens that I think Hunter is superior to all of them and CAN win it. Thus, I'm pushing him at this point. If Hunter's campaign goes nowhere, then I'll switch my support to one of the others. But I reject Rudy McRomney (Media) out of hand. Those guys are unacceptable. Period.

But hey, as I said before, at least I won't endorse a Democrat instead. The same can not be said of Rudy Giuliani--he endorsed Mario Cuomo publicly against George Pataki. Why on Earth do I owe that liberal backstabber any allegience at all?

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

First of all, the US Constitution in Article 1 Section 8 gives Congress the power "to regulate commerce with foreign nations". This is done so we do not have enterprising capitalists who make a deal today and regret it tomorrow, or worse, become beholden to the countries they sell to.

Trade is a valid function of the Federal Government.

[investigateworld]

The fact remains that in spite of the best efforts US forces and their Blessed M1 Garand and help from our allies, the leading cause of death amongst the Communist forces in Korea was cold and hunger. Sometimes the term 'exposure' is used as a catchall to describe the casualties from these elements.

I think the Chinese through the help of our trading policies have now overcome this risk factor to their forces, plus.

Now if we lived in a perfect world where communism and greed were just memories of old men, that would be one thing.

But we seem to be the same humans with the same wants, needs and fears that we were in 1950.

If the destruction of the satellite by the Chinese didn't awaken America, then nothing will.