Posted on 12/21/2007 11:39:13 AM PST by pissant
Dear New Hampshire Friends:
After spending several weeks listening to all of the candidates, I have decided to support Congressman Duncan Hunter for President. I do not take this decision lightly. There are a lot of fine men running for this office and I know that many of you may have already made your choice.Your vote in the “First in the Nation Primary” is a very precious and personal right. Your decision will likely determine who will be the next leader of the free world. What an awesome responsibility! I only ask that you give serious consideration to the points that I make in this letter of endorsement for Congressman Hunter before you vote.
The Republican Party, but more importantly our nation, needs strong conservative and inspirational leadership as we continue to face the threats to our liberty in the form of immorality, corruption, terrorism, a mountain of debt, border insecurity, loss of jobs and attempts to weaken our national defense. Here is why Duncan Hunter is that leader!
I am sure that you are aware that I fought the battle for the conservative cause in New Hampshire for over 20 years. It was not an easy battle.Conservatives pay a heavy price for standing up for their principles. I can speak from personal experience on that. The Republican Party has lost it’s majority in Congress because it slowly and steadily has walked away from the “core values” that have made it a great party for the past 150 years in America. Remember Ronald Reagan? Liberals and moderates worked hard to defeat him in the New Hampshire primary in 1980 but he prevailed in spite of them! He will be remembered as one of our greatest Presidents because he stood on principle. but also because we conservatives in New Hampshire gave him the victory that propelled him to the White House! When President Reagan came into the oval office in the morning, he knew exactly where he wanted to take the country. He did not need an inbox full of directions, consultants, polls or focus groups to tell him what his core values were.
There will never be another Ronald Reagan but fellow Californian Duncan Hunter can pick up the Reagan torch and light the way for America to come back from the dangers we now face. Congressman Hunter is a moral man, an inspirational leader and a no nonsense conservative who will always put “principle above politics” in the image of the late great New Hampshire patriot Meldrim Thomson.
I had the enormous privilege to serve with Congressman Hunter for 18 years in Congress. He has been my personal friend for nearly 25 years. I can personally attest that he is a man of impeccable moral and family values, a great patriot and a leader.I have seen him fight even when others were prepared to give up. Congressman Hunter inspired me and many other young conseratives in the 1980s to continue the fight even when it was bleak.
This has not been an easy campaign for Congressman Hunter. While he has been out on the campaign trail his son has been serving in Iraq and the Hunters lost their entire home in the recent fires in Southern California. He has been largely ignored by the pollsters and the media. I urge the people of New Hampshire to send a message to the pollsters and the Washington media elite. The people elect a President not the pollsters! You have the opportunity to do for the nation what you did when you elected President Reagan in 1980 by sending Duncan Hunter out of New Hampshire with a big win and on to the White House in January of 2009! Can you imagine listening to CNN and all of the talking heads trying to explain how they were wrong as Hunter claimed victory? Wouldn’t that be worth the price of admission? You can make it happen with your vote in January! Do not be intimidated by these spinmasters. You control the destiny of America and not them!
The American people need to take control of this country. We are a republic, not a democracy. We elect leaders to stand up for us as they make decisions. Duncan Hunter has proven that he can lead. He has been tested. If given the chance as President, he will inspire people, young and old, to rally to our nation in this time of need. Congressman Duncan Hunter for 25 years has stood up for the rights of the unborn, to balance the budget, to cut the pork out of the spending bills, to strengthen our national defense by supporting our troops and providing them the weapons they need, to seal off our borders by building a fence along the US/Mexican border and to keep American jobs in America. He is a known entity. You do not have to guess about what he might do on these critical threats to our security.
Imagine President Duncan Hunter leading our nation and using the “bully pulpit” to lead on these issues! I am proud to support this great American patriot for President. If you really want to see change, then I urge you to vote for him. He is what American needs now more than ever ! Thank you!
Senator Bob Smith Tuftonboro, N.H. and Sarasota, Florida
“Also on the table is the support of a set of ideas”
Absolutely. If Hunter is gone, there will be no debate about Nafta/Cafta, China or immigration. If the dems get smart and decide to push those issues to get elected, the republicans are dead in this race.
Great pix, and so suitable to the discussion.
Duncan Hunter is the only presidential candidate who will stop Red China’s cheating, and will stop them from becoming the Superpower.
Why does this matter?
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AMEN!!! Thank you for your endorsement Senator Smith!
Product of Public Edumakayshun, huh?
The only reason that Hunter would not be elected is people like you and others who are defeated before trying.
Vote in the primaries, vote Hunter. If and when he doesn't get the nod, then vote for whatever shmuck(R) does.
I can't stand defeatists.
FMCDH(BITS)
I tried to find one word you wrote that I could disagree with, but alas, I could not.
I once thought the vacant side should be filled by Tancredo...no more.
How can I say this???
NO !!!
Ditto!
Do you think he thighed it as well? Perhaps he ankled it.
Which is why the GOP nor any of the so-called conservative media folks are mentioning his name. Just the way they all want it.
(Shhhhhh!!!)
Nice to see somebody give an endorsement without falling for the trap of false perceptions the media constantly feeds us. Thanks you, Bob Smith.
I just got up over here and saw this thread. I have not even scrolled down to read the comments yet. But I bet there are Duncan Bashers who pooh pooh it or rationalize it away one way or another, but would puff it up if on the other hand their candidate got an endorsement. Let us see if I am right!!
Scrolling up to read now.
I think the other candidates are such a mix of old or tired or adulterous or cowardly or questionably-conservative that a decent Reagan Republican may make it. Then again, maybe not.
I’d cite the 1980 election as more relevant. There will be no strong southern incumbent to run against and both of the leading liberals are very flawed people.
Well, if they want to make MORE progress somebody on the Hunter team needs to call WBZ and get on Dan Rea’s program. Rea already said on the air he’d welcome Hunter on.
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