[Kevmo]

Yes, well we are still up on Team Hunter...
***There you go again. Here, this might sound familiar to you.

Because that is the language of modern “conservatism” : poll numbers and bandwagon jumping and figuring out what others are going to do before you make a commitment, rather than looking at the issues and the character of the man. Every time we get someone on a Hunter thread that only argues that he doesn’t have high poll numbers, that’s like telling a crowd of Formula1 fans that they can’t even drive the car on a road. It has no meaning to them. And when the Formula1 fans turn around and say that it’s the fastest race car in its horsepower class, they’re not speaking the language of the street car fans. In our analogy, that’s the equivalent of the Hunter fans pointing out how great he is on the issues, how his track record reflects his true viewpoints rather than as a conversion on the road to Des Moines, that kind of thing. The problem here is that this is a formula1 website. So, when the street racers come onto the formula1 website

[ejonesie22]

I don’t think you completed your thought, but anyways, again, you keep trying to say Fred is a street car, not a formula one car. You also imply that some of us are holding our bets before picking a team. However with two F1 Cars, and the requisite Yugos, we have 2 Formula 1 Cars supported on the Formula 1 site. So stop trying to say that only “True Formula 1 fans” support Duncan Hunter. There are many people as conservative as you paint yourself as being that support Thompson and have chosen him now, not sitting and waiting, just like other have done with Hunter.

As far as the rest, we are not saying Hunter is not on the track, indeed he and Fred are on the same road course, the same race. We have lapped him, and we expect to stay ahead. It is up to your team to catch up and pass us, be it by virtue of finally getting in tune and passing us, or if we break down. It is not "modern conservatism or anything, just Political fact that polls are a decent gage of success before the real thing. To ignore them is folly and give them too much credence is equally stupid. But they do give a picture of where one stands.

Outside of the analogy it is arrogant presumption to say that anyone who does not support Hunter on FR is not really a “conservative”, or is a “modern” conservative. Indeed when you talk of bandwagon jumping that is exactly what you guys are doing, jumping on the Hunter bandwagon. Otherwise you would wait until the vote. All politically active folks who declare a side are on a bandwagon for their guy.

There are many of us here who are as conservative as any who don’t support Hunter for whatever reasons. Our level of commitment to conservative ideals is not tied to one man, we simply look for a champion to get the best fit into the halls of power as we can. That is, in the final analysis, the point, to win and make sure your principals are represented in our Federal Republic.