[Josh Painter]

RightthinkinAmerican wrote: “But I’ll admit Hunter WOULD make a good vice-prez for Fred : )”

No way. Hunter’s too much of a big government free spender who’s addicted to pork. He voted against all 19 of Jeff Flake’s anti-pork amendments.

He voted for the pork-encrusted 2005 Highway Bill. He voted against the fiscally conservative Republican Study Committee’s proposed budgets in 2003, 2005 and 2006 even though he’s supposedly an RSC member.

Hunter is dead last among the GOP presidential candidates in fundraising. His opposition to free trade has hurt him with big donors. But he should have forseen this and had an agressive internet fundraising effort to try to make up for the shortfall.

Even though he voted no on McCain Feingold, he flip flopped and voted yes on the 527 bill.

The Club for Growth give Hunter a miserable score of 49% (that’s an ‘F’) on their 2005 scorecard, ranking him 187th within the House GOP conference out of roughly 230 members.

“Our (political action committee) would cross him off the list,” said David Keating, executive director of the Club for Growth. “We wouldn’t even consider endorsing him because his record on fiscal issues has been so bad.”

Race 4 2008 says, “This explains why Duncan Hunter isn’t gaining any traction; his record on fiscal issues is that of something other than a conservative.”

In years past, Hunter used to score well on issues considered important by the National Taxpayers Union. But his trend is worrisome, as he’s been getting only C’s from NTU in recent years.

No, Fred doesn’t need to be saddled with a big-government, free-spender on his ticket. The voters have had enough of that from the Bush administration and the recent Congress. Perhaps Fred will nominate Hunter for SECDEF.

[familyop]

"The Club for Growth give Hunter a miserable score of 49% (that’s an ‘F’) on their 2005 scorecard, ranking him 187th within the House GOP conference out of roughly 230 members."

...mainly because Duncan Hunter voted against NAFTA, CAFTA and against permanent normal trade relations with China. Most conservatives aren't interested in what the Club for Growing Third World Nuclear Arsenals has to say about Duncan Hunter.

[prairiebreeze]

Wow, that info on Hunter’s voting record etc. is news to me. (Mostly because I’m staying off the other candidates threads except for Fred, for the summer)

But thanks for the info, I’m booking marking that.

I just don’t get the rancor that consumes Hunter supporters on Fred threads, especially when their candidate is doing so poorly at this point in the polls. At least the Romney supporters have some traction to stand on......for now.

Talk about going down with the ship....