Well - Mike Huckabee just won the straw poll with a blowout. Really interesting statistics showing that he picked up over 100 delegates during the evening. This will probably be a huge boost for his campaign because people like Janet Folger are going to start strongly supporting his candidacy.
Duncan Hunter said the China is becoming a superpower. Hunter is the only one who thoroughly understands the China threat.
Here’s an excerpt of an interview:
http://blog.barofintegrity.us/2007/09/04/duncan-hunter-interview-with-hugh-hewitt.aspx
“Hugh Hewitt interviews Presidential candidate Duncan Hunter at the Texas Straw Poll before the results came in—Hunter won with 41% of the vote...
Transcription:
Hugh Hewitt: Any member of the media or any of the debate ask any questions that haven’t been asked yet?
Duncan Hunter: You know Hugh, I would like them to ask about the long term prospects for opportunities for this next generation. Good job prospects. That is a question that begs for analysis of what we are doing with our trade policies where we are pushing American industry off shore. We are sending lots of manufacturing and high paying jobs to China. You have a lot of people on Wall Street selling those jobs out. They mark up the difference between $25 - $30 per hour to an American vs. a $1.00 per hour to somebody in China. And they move the company.
We are going to need to level that playing field, so that Americans, the next generation of Americans, those great kids coming back from Afghanistan and Iraq, have the same good job opportunities that we had.
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Duncan Hunter: No, you know what we are talking about actually is reversing what China has got which is protectionism. Right now, if we send a good to China, they hit us with a 17% tax at the water’s edge. When they send their products to the United States their government subsidizes every product they send over by cheating on trade. The devalue their currency 40% below where it should be. That undercuts on every American product. They know they are doing it. The head of the Federal Reserve Board, Ben Bernanke, knows they are doing it. He said as much. Yet we have allowed them to continue to do it.
One thing that a President does, is enforce trade rules. I am going to enforce trade rules. I am going to stop China from cheating on trade. If we have to use counter veiling duties we are going to do that. But we are going to keep them from enmassing these 100s of billions of dollars, some of which they are using to buy weapon systems. And the difference between China and Japan is this, Japan is a military ally. Not a robust ally, not one that comes to Iraq or Afghanistan with lots of help. But China is a potential adversary and certainly one that has conflicting interest. The idea that American dollars that are being used to buy missile destroyers from the Russians which were designed to kill American aircraft carriers and buy and build ballistic missiles some of which are aimed at our cities does not make good policy.”
You can read the rest at above link.
Well, there's a shock!/sarc.
A baptist minister "wins" the poll at a family values debate. MEMO: It takes a lot more to be a federalist, right wing, limited Government adherent than believing in Jesus and being pro life.
It might be a good start, but there are plenty of Big Gubmint religious folks. The goals may be different than the Socialists, but they embrace Big Government just the same.