Oh thanka you Mr. Pissant-san. You are so kind.
Posted on 02/15/2007 3:12:25 PM PST by pissant
Conservative blogger John Hawkins (Right Wing News) announced today that he is consulting for presidential candidate Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA).
For those who haven't followed his efforts in the Congress, Hunter introduced the Right to Life Act, which would legally define "personhood" as the moment of conception and, therefore, guarantee all constitutional rights and protections, including life, to the unborn without utilizing a constitutional amendment. (more information here)
Hawkins' involvement in the promotion of Hunter tells me that the candidate is a consistent ideological conservative in addition to his solid pro-life record. In fact, prior to being approached by a media group connected with Hunter's campaign, Hawkins had written positively concerning Hunter, promoting his candidacy through an interview and Town Hall Column (we noticed).
Second, the utilization of Hawkins reflects the emergent influence of bloggers on the political process and the demonstrated results. During the last presidential election cycle several writers were enlisted to help publicize political campaigns through blogging efforts. Some, like Hawkins, were upfront and announced the financial incentive they were receiving. Others didn't and were heavily criticized. However, the growing practice of enlisting bloggers reflects a positive track record and the complimentary advantage blogs provide to traditional campaign marketing efforts.
Finally, press reports about Hunter have been dismissive, if not negative. There was a time when this may have proven fatal to a campaign. Hunter's media group realizes that those times are over and their candidate's position on the issues can reach voters without an exclusive reliance on MSM
Bump.
Yeppers.
I think you're right.
WHO WOULD WARD VOTE FOR.
ROFL!!! Whereas before they'd never admit RWN existed.
I think if we all email Hunter and chip in a couple bucks, they can upgrade his website.
And he's only begun to fight. LOL
Nope. you have it wrong.
Innocence terminated=bad.
Guilty in a court of law, Evil terminated=good.
I would be honored to be a member of the DH ping list!
Give Hawkins an atta boy!
Ward was definitely a republican! LOL
I will forward you for consideration to the master list keeper, Antoninus. LOL
I sent a clam already. next month I'll send another. If things get bad, I'll hit the annual max before christmas.
Good news!
Not to be a downer, but I hope Mr. Hawkins doesn't have anything in his past, because I think some folk may look into that.
I like the idea of forcing the democrats to run against someone they didn't count on running against. Right now they're running against the center and that's far too easy on them in my opinion.
Oh yes, I keep forgetting to ask, may I please be added to the ping list? Thanks very much!
Actually, I'd like to see him run with a conservative candidate of French decent so I could see the ticket:
OK, infantile. I'll go crawl under my rock now... :p
Then send an emial and tell him to updgrade the website. I will as well.
The momentum continues to gather speed. Go Hunter!
Oh thanka you Mr. Pissant-san. You are so kind.
Yep. Hawkins will have nothing like theose dingbats Edwards hired in his closet.
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