Posted on 12/18/2007 1:37:29 AM PST by WildcatClan
NASHUA – Speaking to about 40 BAE Systems workers in what he called a "town hall meeting," Republican presidential candidate Duncan Hunter again blasted an opponent because his former company is doing business with a Chinese defense contractor.
Hunter, a U.S. congressman from California, called on Bain Capital, a company founded by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, another GOP presidential contender, to drop its strategic partnership with Chinese defense contractor Huawei Technologies in a bid to buy U.S. defense contractor 3Com.
Hunter will also ask Romney to use his influence with Bain to end the proposed merger between Huawei and 3Com.
The congressman called the merger "unpatriotic" and a threat to national security.
During his address, which concluded with questions from BAE workers on their lunch breaks, Hunter touched on conservative themes that have become linchpins of his campaign.
"Immigration is the hottest issue in show business right now," Hunter said.
"Everybody in the world who has a TV set right now knows how to get into the U.S. illegally," Hunter said.
In response to questions, Hunter said he opposes creating a North American union for trade, similar to the European union.
"I have an idea for a North American union – if Canada and Mexico had supported us when we went to Iraq. They turned their back on us," Hunter said.
He also said he favored having corporations and businesses paying "next to nothing" in taxes to encourage companies to grow here and not move operation overseas.
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Now, I love Hunter and hope his day will come,but attacking Romney for a company he is no longer involved with reminds me of Cheney/ Haliburton/ Democrats.
I wouldn't call that an attack really, just gentle encouragement to do the right thing. No longer involved really depends on what one considers involvement to be. He still has influence at Bain. If Romney were as smart as some like to portray him he would have already thanked Hunter for bringing it up and scored politically by simply speaking to Bain about the situation. The electorate would have thought, "Hey, here is a guy that can get things done and puts America first". Hunter gave him a real opportunity with this and he faltered.
3Com?
They used to make floppy disks. Now they make network routers. This isn’t exactly Lockheed Martin, folks.
Hunter is showing why he’s just not presidential material.
I think there are many who feel and think exactly as you do. Probably too many. Do you think Hunter would actually care if 3com was just about routers? I am glad he has his eyes wide open because it doesn’t seem many do. 3com has networking and data security contracts with the US Government. You don’t see a problem with the ChiComs having access to such a company?
It is like me selling a car to someone who starts to use the car to rob banks. Then the police come to me to ask me to try to use my influence to stop them.
That is the poice’s responsiblility, not mine.
Hunter is in Congress. He is in a better position to influence that company than Romney.
No, Hunter is just being a protectionist.
That's like saying Chinese toy in a babies mouth is worrisome.
With due respect, it is nothing like selling a car and someone using it to rob banks. It is more akin to your neighbor moving out and leaving the house to his children. Those children then decide to sell the house to your worst enemy. You might want to ask dad to talk to the kids, right?
Silly me, what was I thinking? :)
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Why do the Communist Chinese want to buy this company?
Not really.
Romnmey and the other globalist elites like Bush, Kennedy, etc, are getting rich from investments in lost American jobs, money sent to build up the Red Chinese war machine, contaminated food, etc.
Meanwhile, I’m sure these firms are contributing heavily to their war chests.
One of the reasons Hunter is having such a problem is he isn’t receving corporate dollars from these sources and his opponents are - or at lesat that’s my theory.
Oddly, 3Com is headquartered in Belmont, Mass. Mitt’s, Mass home is also in Belmont. Small world.
“In response to questions, Hunter said he opposes creating a North American union for trade, similar to the European union.”
So much for the North American Union being a ‘conspiracy’. Duncan Hunter is the ONLY candidate speaking out against the NAU. The rest of ALL our candidates (except Tancredo) WILL, IMO, further the CFR/NAU agenda.
“No, Hunter is just being a protectionist.”
HUNTER, just doing the job that globalist Fred won’t.
Huawei Technologies buying 3Com does not pose any threat to our national security. They want to buy them for the same reasons any company wants to acquire another.
The Chinese government probably wants to contract similar services from Huawei Technologies that the US government contracted from 3Com. The quickest and easiest way for them to develop the technology would be to acquire another company that already possesses it. However, this would not in any way enable the Chinese government to penetrate secure US Government networks. If 3Com made network security products that they could break into, then their products would obviously not be any good, and would fail in the task they were designed for.
Fred Thompson is not a “globalist.” He posses a free-market capitalism philosophy, something that protectionists like Duncan Hunter and the Democrat party do not.
Duncan Hunter ping!
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