Posted on 09/08/2007 9:24:29 PM PDT by Allan S.
I think we need both Thompson and Hunter on the final ticket. It is too early to rule out HUNTER as top of ticket, but presently it looks like THOMPSON in the top spot. These guys should follow Reagan's "Eleventh Commandment" as regards each other. I think I was the first to suggest Hunter run for the presidency, on the F.A.I.R.(Dan Stein Report) Commentaries. I have been bullish for Thompson, whenever he addressed illegal immigration, or addresses a madness like the "Sanctuary City Movement". Let us pray that these two seemingly good conservatives can avoid trashing each other in any ungentlemanly or permanent way. They really need each other, and the nation needs them both. Folks, America is fatally wounded by the Mexican invasion, and drastic political surgery, alone, can save the patient!
Hunter could satisfy conservatives, and Thompson could appease all the American Idoler’s!
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“But even if the nonsense I wrote in the preceding paragraph were true, Hunter would still not help the ticket (and he’s my favorite candidate of the lot of them). California is NOT in play. Ohio, Minnesota and Florida are.”
I know I am going to get flak for even suggesting this, but I believe that Duncan Hunter could put every state in play. When was the last time we ran a solid conservative for president? Ronald Reagan, right? I believe that the real conservative message still resonates with a majority of voters.
As one of the original Reagan democrats, I am excited about the prospect of a pro-life, pro-gun, strong military, tough on trade deals, solid family values candidate like Hunter running against any one of the Democrats. He will bring tons of moderate/conservative democrats and independents into our camp. He has the same appeal to me as Reagan did. Duncan Hunter has a record he can be proud of and one that we can be confident in endorsing.
Duncan Hunter has the resume, the strength of character and integrity and, yes, the charisma, to be an excellent president. You are right though, about Hunter not adding anything as a vp candidate. He needs top billing.
So you will have to excuse me for being a little “pie in the sky” for a candidate I believe is thee best man to be president. I am not willing to settle for something less than the best as long as the best is still available.
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So now I'm trying to figure out who is the least worst alternative.
Honestly, I would pick Mitt Romney over Fred Thompson.
I'm not ready to go there yet. I want to see how Thompson does when the heat turns up. No way of knowing whether there's likely to be a Macaca moment until he's dancing on the stove.
For some time, I have believed the race belonged to either Romney or Thompson. Giuliani holds the entire RINO vote and a lot of folks who liked the way he handled himself after 911. But that's it. But he can only go downhill as a lot of the later group will start to gravitate to the more apparently conservative candidates and there aren't that many RINO's amongst voters in the party. McCain has imploded. Everyone else is a minor candidate. So it's going to be Romney or Thompson. Thompson has the charisma and makes conservative hearts flutter. Romney is good-looking, has the money, has the organization, and the support of the party establishment.
I suspect that, as president, both of them will disappoint their conservative supporters. So I'm not that thrilled about the choice. But what's the alternative--and I mean the realistic alternative.
I’ve cast my last vote for him/her. Seems to me folks give up a might too easy around these parts. We have compromised enough, and enough is enough. My primary concern is with conservative issues and primary candidates normally don’t get on my radar. Duncan Hunter is the lone exception to that and the only reason I give a damn about this primary.
I have had many opportunities to vote for “least worst alternative” but never a chance to vote for a Duncan Hunter. If he is in the race on the date of the primaries he will get my vote, if not, “the least worst alternatives” can fight it out by themselves and I will pull the lever for them in the General Election.
There likely won’t be another Hunter for another 20 years, since the last time we had a Hunter was 1980-1988, and of course his name was Ronald Reagan. I always regretted not being able to vote for Reagan, I was a kid, but he was my hero and if I could have got near a lever with his name on it, I would have pulled it. :)
That said, I truly believe Hunter is a better candidate and will be a better president than Reagan. That is some very high praise, coming from me, and there is no way I am going to miss my chance to vote for Hunter. When I pull the lever for Hunter, the remnants of that kid that didn’t get to vote for Reagan, will rise up and say, “This one’s for the Gipper” :)
I think Thompson should be allowed to pick his own running mate.
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A very reasonable approach, And sense it is the same as mine I add very intelligent.
Cheney’s not so great. I believe those who dig can find him advising, in the GHWB days, that to invade Iraq after chasing it out of Kuwait would be to stomp into a quagmire, whilst he (and I, and most of us), a decade later, grossly mis-overestimated the Muslims’ desire for freedom, order, and democracy. He kept his energy task force meeting membership lists secret in the same way Hillary tried to keep her health care group meeting lists secret, and he shot a hunting partner.
I’d suggest you do some (more) research on both men. IMO, pairing Duncan Hunter with Fred Thompson would be like pairing Fred Thompson with Rudy Guiliani. Their positions on hotbutton issues are, thankfully, not even close.
I’m hoping and praying that the Ballot Initiative to break up CA’s 55 Electoral Votes succeeds.
I know the very thought of it has the Dems poopin’ down both legs.
California has changed a lot since Reagan’s time. What was the hard core ultra left in those days is now the center.
Thompson/Huckabee
you heard it here first
A vote for a Thompson/Huckabee ticket is a vote to continue George Bush’s immigration and illegal alien policies.
That would be Hucakbee, keynote speaker for the national convention of LULAC in 2005.
That would be the pro-illegal League of United Latin American Citizens.
that’s not what Thompson says
where do you get that?
check out the profile page, and have your questions answered.
Judd Gregg may not make it through the next election.
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