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
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I don’t know that it is irrelevant. It gives momentum to a candidate and attracts a lot of media attention and that is an opportunity to get your message out. Also there is this tendency of Americans to vote for someone for no other reason than they are a perceived “winner”. I think, however, we can both agree, that in a sane world, it should be irrelevant.
The entire primary paradigm needs changed. It would be easy enough to do but the two-party system lacks the will. It’s like the College Bowl Series instead of a playoff every year. There are forces behind it we little guys will find difficult to overcome.
Well, he could have endorsed one of the multitude of RINOS, but he didn’t.
“IMHO, Hunter is the only one capable of a landslide victory with coattails. “
and IMHO, you are right. Duncan Hunter’s demographics are identical to Ronald Reagan. All the rest match up well with Gerald Ford.
Encouraging!!!!!
Ping!
My beef is he is being peddled as a conservative and he is not. Plus the Fredheads have piled on every other candidate so I don’t have to. They all attack at will and then scream to the mods when Fraud is “attacked”. That behavior ticks me off to no end. Thus, I have learned to detest Fraud Thompson.
"Campaigns are not about compelling conformance to a personality, they're about discussing and selling conservative principles and big ideas that help our country! They're also about questioning liberal tendancies and records and how they can hurt our exceptional nation!" (Rush Limbaugh)
This expresses what a lot of us CA conservatives were trying to express all through the historic CA Recall fiasco on FR and many times since then as well.
I support and will vote for Hunter, but he is the only candidate of either party for whom I have seen no roadside signs in NH. Even fringe candidates like Kucinich, Gravel, and Tancredo have some.
I am not supporting Fred as my first choice either and have found the “Fredheads” to be somewhat obnoxious as well. However, I do think he is conservative on most issues. I just don’t think he can win a general election.
These are the people that denied us Reagan for an extra 4 years that we could have really enjoyed and profited from and I still resent 'em, BIGTIME!!!
My recollection of Smith RE Kerry was a mistake--he was probably only upset with the Vietnamese...
TRUE. No more "Compassionate Conservatives".
Can you read with comprehension? You responded with this post "These arrogant pronouncements are getting on my nerves. Duncan Hunter is the one who will do the selecting for cabinet positions when the time comes. and I replied it's easy for you/anyone to make that prediction but most who do are only blustering and will not back what they spout with hard money. What don't you understand here? I can't make it any clearer for you.
WOW!! Duncan Hunter gets the best of the best endorsing him.
Sure is except for about 4 pockets, LA, San Fran, Portland, Seattle. They think just like the Northeastern politicians.
Duncan Hunter
4%
Source: Opinion Research Corporation / CNN
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/28889/republicans_2008_giuliani_28_thompson_19
If true conservatives have the courage to get behind Duncan Hunter, he CAN win. But again, it takes courage. It is still early.
Howard Dean was 43% in the polls in Dec. ‘03, and Kerry was 13%.
THEN Kerry went down to 4%, just 3 weeks before the primaries.
Politics is volatile. We can NOT give up so easily.
If we do, we will get the govt. we deserve.
“Yes, non of the democrats meet the definition of men.”
Ya gotta admit, hillary is pretty darn close.
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