How quickly the so-called conservatives will stab their conservative guy (Duncan Hunter) in the back for a TV Star.
"How quickly the so-called conservatives will stab their conservative guy (Duncan Hunter) in the back for a TV Star."
BINGO!
When I posted a few Hunter threads were getting only crickets, but post a Rudy thread and all the anti-Rudy people, claiming to be for Hunter, come out in force, it's becoming obvious that the most in the anti-Rudy bunch were just using Hunter as a diversion, they couldn't care less about him.
This instant defection to Thompson, whose only contribution would be to split the Republican party and make it easier for Hillary is further evidence what their real agenda is -- with a few sincere, but misguided conservatives thrown in, to legitimize their activities.
I like Hunter just fine. Tancredo, too. But name the last time a House member got his party's nomination?
We have to be pragmatic here. I think Thompson can beat any of the current 'Rats running. Mitt? No. McCain? Too unpredictable. Rudy? Hell, my governor (Strickland, a 'Rat) is more conservative.
Thompson can do the populist thing while having more smarts than Hitlery and Hussein Obama.
In 1979 the Dems and the media laughed at Reagan, too.
Not me.... I'm backing Duncan Hunter all the way.
Actually, I was thinking Thompson would make an excellent VP with Duncan Hunter taking the lead.
areafiftyone wrote: "How quickly the so-called conservatives will stab their conservative guy (Duncan Hunter) in the back for a TV Star."
It not a stab in the back and you know it. Duncan Hunter has an almost perfect conservative voting record in the House. But what good does that do conservatives if Hunter can't get elected? He's way too long a long shot.
James A. Garfield was the last incumbent member of the House of Representatives to be elected President. Do you know how long ago that was? Nearly a century and a half ago in 1859, LOL!
And Hunter is not without baggage. He accepted money from many of the same sources that Randy "Duke" Cunningham did, and Cunninham is in jail. Cunningham and Hunter worked with ADCS Inc. and Audre Inc. to force the Pentagon to pay for converting printed documents to computer files. They persuaded other lawmakers to get Congress to allocate $190 million for 'automated data conversion' projects from 1993 to 2001. Only problem was, the Pentagon neither wanted nor needed these services becauses, according to a 1994 General Accounting Office report, it already had the hardware and software required for that kind of document imaging. But Cunningham, Hunter and Jerry Lewis didn't seem to give a hoot. Audre and ADCS were generous with contributions to all three Congressmen.
Now I personally don't have any reason to believe that Hunter is some kind of crook. But you know what the Dems would do with that kind of ammo. Heck, forget the Dems for a moment. You know what Hunter's GOP primary opponents would do with it!
Sorry, Duncan Hunter is unelectable to the presidency. And that's the name of that tune.
Excuuuuuse me - I heard the Thompson interview on Marc Levin, and he said that the President should pardon Libby - the trial is a farce. He is also pro life and favors the increase in troops in Iraq. I like Fred Thompson - I just wish he would turn around and produce the producer of Law and Order, Dick Wolf, in the mouth for his constant badmouthing of conservatives and religious Christians and Jews on his shlocky shows.