When I called a talk show to tell a few things that Duncan Hunter stands for, I asked if I could give Hunter’s website, www.gohunter08.com, and I also included it in my letter to the editor. Hopefully it will generate some donors, as well as getting folks to learn more about him.
I will vote for either Hunter or Thompson in the general election.
I will vote the primaries for whomever of the 2 has the best chance at the time the primaries happen.
I will neither vote for Rudy or Mitt in the primaries nor in the general election.
I am a pragmatist, not a liberal.
Thankyou.... Get back to us when Hunter breaks 1%.
Think country and party.
Thompson for eight years.
THEN his VP, Hunter, for another eight.
What could possibly be better than that?
Without a conservative in the top two slots of the Presidential ticket, I will be forced to recognize and realize my home (America) has fallen from the Reagan Revolution to less, much less, than I desire for my nation.
The Republicans have a White House to Win, and Win that office Republicans must. One cannot counter the liberals if a liberal holds the office.
The problems, in our nation, are going to become worse, much worse, if a liberal comes to power. I fear Hillary, but I fear some of the liberal Republicans as much as I fear Hillary.
May God help America, and may God help the best Man for the job, Mr. Hunter.
Well put.
Personally, it is no longer possible for me to vote for liberal republicans and the only two GOP candidates I could vote for, even against Hillary, are Hunter and Thompson...in that order.
No more incrementalized socialism. None of the other GOP candidates will make the turn around.
I think his electability quotient is very low.
I suppose we would not agree on what constituted the Ronald Reagan "special sauce" that got him from a unified base to a national landslide. I think most Hunterites believe it was some type of social conservatism (I wouldn't want to speak for you).
What made me a Reagan voter, twice, was the belief that if he were elected the 1970s trend to big government and high taxes (and I'm certainly including RMN here) would be arrested and then reversed.
That I can't cut down a tree on my own property (in freakin' NEW HAMPSHIRE, for heaven's sake) is what would get me out to the polls.
I haven't heard from Hunter what he's offering me to shrink the Federal government, grow freedom and Liberty, and get the government, at all levels, off our backs.
In many ways, Reagan did not (could not) accomplish the things I hoped he could. He had a huge leftist majority in Congress, and it is our representatives at the end of the day that call the tune.
But he gave me a clear sense that he "got it", at least in terms of the things I think are important, and he did that for millions of other people, too.
I don't get that sense from Hunter. He's the best man to represent what is called around here "the base", but I believe that base is less than 30% of the voters, maybe less than 25%, and that the closer a candidate comes to being perfect for the base, the less likely he is to be elected.
I understand that a lot of FReepers don't agree, and that they think the base (if energized by the right guy) can carry the day on its own.
I don't believe that, which is why I take the positions I do.
How big a fraction of the national electorate do YOU believe the base is?
After watching and listening to the candidates I’m leaning towards Hunter. He seems to have those conservative ideals that once was the base and core of the Republican party.
Tancredo: http://teamtancredo.org/
I think you’re absolutely correct - Hunter IS the Conservative in this race and just because he isn’t as well-known or entrenched in the process as the others, that doesn’t mean he can’t win.
Last nite I witnessed a case in point.
Indianapolis’s 2-term Mayor - a truly awful democrat who everyone thought would win again - was overturned by a good man who has never held public office. Republican Greg Ballard won because people here were sick and tired of liberal policies that have been damaging to our city.
Mayor-Elect Ballard had no support from the Republican party here until the end of last week when it became clear that he was really in the running. The incumbent democrat was flush with cash and commercials and corrupt buddies in positions of power. All his money and power didn’t win him the election because of the huge turnout of concerned citizens.
The headlines in the Indianapolis Star today are calling this the biggest upset in the history of Indiana politics!
Ballard’s victory should serve as proof to conservatives that the grassroots can rise up and sweep even a previously ‘unknown’ candidate to victory.
I am a Conservative and I will be supporting Duncan Hunter for President.
Unfortunately the strategy by Duncan supporters seems to be to dump on Thompson, meanwhile Huckebee is scooping up a lot of social conservative support.
He voted against NAFTA and Campaign Finance Reform.
I have never had a chance to dig much deeper. When I asked the question of him in the FR "Ask Duncan thread" (which only he has been brave enough to do so far), he offered to cut the National Endowment of the Arts (aka whipping boy though deservedly so) and to support Bush's recommended cuts (I paraphrase). To me that is not enough.
The economy has expanded for 50 straight months, a record, and is due to take some serious backsteps over the next year or two (price of oil/gas, Iraq/Iran/Syria, cutting down the number of illegals, inflation, etc.). If a rat is in office for the economic mess we're venturing towards, combined with the rats' sick obsession with tax increases, punishing business, "taking away profits from oil companies", etc., they'll destroy the economy. The rats will get blamed and a conservative will once again have to come to the rescue.
The next rescue though, unlike Reagan's, will never be forgotten. The daily reminder on cable TV of the economic mess and hardships caused by the rats will be viewed throughout the rat rule. Afterwards, with the age of internet and current communications, noboby alive during the mess will ever be allowed to forget it.
Flame away if you wish, but rather than the slow slither down the rat hole, with RINO after RINO allowing the incremental implementation of the socialist agenda only getting worse, unless folks in their 20's, 30's and 40's today, are taught a valuable lesson on the differences between conservatives and liberals. Elections matter.
Note to republicans: You want my vote in the general election (and campaign cash) give me a conservative or forget it. I'm a conservative long before I'm a republican.
The vehement and continous attacks on Freds character, wife, stances, whether true or not, the parsing of words, to emphasis their points, have left a lot of us not even considering Hunter. Some of them are so hateful and nasty, I wouldn't want to be associated with anything they are associated with.
Couple that with the dismal effort his own campaign staff is performing on Duncans behalf, Many, many opportunities to get Duncan face time, and noteriety have been lost. So many flubs by his campaign directors, I would have fired after the first incident.
There are many, many reasons to support either of these men, but what you will see in the posts that follow will be those who are either in one camp or the other, and because of some of Duncans supporters here, will never support Duncan.
Case in point. Polls.
Most of the major polls show Duncan anywhere from 1-5% and for the most part less than the margin of error. When this is pointed out to the Duncan supporters, they say polls don't matter, but when a poll shows Duncan with a high percentage, take the Texas straw poll, then polls matter.
That kind of delusion and unrealistic observation and the way it's presented, make Duncan look like a fool, and it's his supporters that do that, not Duncan.
Another case.
The fires in San Diego County, part of Duncans district, were a perfect opportunity for his campaign to get him a LOT of face time, working with the governor, working with the locals, speaking and standing WITH the President when he came, not Feinswine. There was a LOT of commercial footage that could have been used to promote Duncan.
Now, when I pointed out that failure, I was told......."He had more important things to do.".....and..... "He won't use the situation for political gain."
Admirable, if you are running for re-election in your district. But he's running for POTUS, not a district. Face time, recognition, and being seen LEADING is important to any campaign from school board to POTUS.
This is the failure of his campaign.
Now, while I think that a Thompson/Hunter ticket would possibly be a good combination, I don't see it happening. Hunter won't take the 2nd spot, IMHO, simply because he would want the top job and not be relegated to being the gopher for the President. My opinion only.
Most candidates who win the nomination choose someone from their campaign to run with them, and that makes sense. You want someone who reflects your views in case something happens to you. There are a lot of good people in the Thomson campaign, and his pick will be from there.
Yours is an absolutely outstand post. Thanks.
We need to come together or we’ll be torn apart.
BTTTT! Thanks to all contributors to this thread.
Go Hunter Go!!!!