Welcome Congressman Duncan Hunter - LIVE Thread (virtual Free Republic press Conference)

From San Diego, CA | 8/13/07 | Duncan Hunter/Freepers

[pissant]

They are using something that already exists. Your SS #.

[Calpernia]

Pissant has redefined the Internet and campaign strategies!

[pissant]

Good advice. They should give Boortz a call.

[pissant]

I said nothing about “offensive” posts. I said disruptors will be removed. I’m not exactly the inoffensive type of guy.

[pissant]

LOL! Hardly.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Congressman Hunter, I could not participate in yesterday's virtual conference, but I hope that you see this brief note today.

I think you are the last best hope for bringing true Conservative values back to the federal executive and I will do anything I can to support your candidacy. I've already sent in my donations and am trying to spread the word about your candidacy in my local community in Adams County, Pennsylvania. It's difficult since a lot of average rural folks just don't keep up with current news, politics, and national life-impacting issues like they should. But I hope that we FReepers can boost your name recognition throughout the country and help you achieve primary victories in the future, leading up to the 2008 national election.

Please hang in there, and don't take any crap from your RINO competitors, or from Hillary and Obama.

VR

[Gvl_M3]

Thank you for compiling this list.

I was just thinking that such a summary would be great.

[Carry_Okie]

Cato also has low regard for Hunter. I do not trust libertarian think tanks to evaluate current politics, much less histroy.

Cato wants open borders and "free" trade, but that doesn't mean that their criticism of TR is incorrect in this instance. Are you saying that TR was misquoted? Do you agree with the quotes in the post? I know Hunter doesn't.

[pissant]

They are taking his quote out of context and they are certainly painting him in an unflattering light. It is called natural selection....selecting snippets that naturally fit with one’s thesis. I consider Teddy to be one of the great US presidents.

[wastedyears]

Jim’s forum, his rules.

[cake_crumb]

" I wrote the law that mandated the construction of the border fence in California that reduced smuggling of people and drugs by more than 90% in our sector. I also wrote the bill, signed into law on October 26, 2006, which extends the California fence 854 miles across the smuggling routes of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. As, President I will build the border fence, all 854 miles, in six months."

I can't help but laugh, rememebring the borderbots blaming Bush because the environazis tied it up in court. And they turn out to be supportes of the man who wrote the law. AHHH, IRONY.

[pissant]

I’m missing something, apparently.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

The border fence is necessary for national security. Border control is necessary.

Environmental laws would take a hike if the President desired border control as much as Hunter, Inhofe, Tancredo, or a number of other people in Congress.

[Carry_Okie]

They are taking his quote out of context and they are certainly painting him in an unflattering light.

There's enough there to damn TR on his own.

I consider Teddy to be one of the great US presidents.

Then you need to do more homework than the typical comic book understanding of TR that I see here. You've chosen blind party loyalty over principle. That means you are a dangerous supporter, one who will not try to restrain a leader from making a serious mistake.

Nor do you understand the corruption inherent to big regulatory government that TR unleashed. I've researched the topic for nearly a decade. My book was hand carried into the Bush White House by Senator Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming (Dick Cheney's mentor). Unfortunately, 911 happened almost immediately after its publication making follow up impossible.

The failure to understand the consequences of regulation is a sadly common deficiency, because the exercise of police power to solve a problem, while schematically simple, is too complex to render a just or productive result. People do not understand how liberty under the rule of law can solve the problems incontinent regulation is purported to solve, much less where the problems arose that supposedly necessitated a regulatory response.

[jmyrlefuller]

Then sign a law telling them that it’s off limits to the courts. Congress has that power.

[jmyrlefuller]

If you think TR was bad in that regard, wait until you read about Woodrow Wilson. At least TR worked within the realm of the Constitution— Wilson’s cronies gutted it with Prohibition, progressive income tax, and elimination of state legislatures choosing the Senators.

[davidosborne]

1) destroy the enemy
2) protect themselves

THANK YOU SIR !!

SFC David Osborne
Operation Iraqi FReedom

[Carry_Okie]

If you think TR was bad in that regard, wait until you read about Woodrow Wilson.

I have. No argument there. Socialism had become a popular fad. The consequences were virtually unknown.

[pissant]

It is simply preposterous to blame TR for the nanny state that has since ensued. Try starting with his cousin.

[Califreak]

So much goodness in one package. We are blessed to have him in the running, and we’ll be even more blessed if he wins. All Hunterheads: Pray daily for his victory. America needs a man like him, now more than ever!