Yes, and if the Hunter people don’t wake up, we’re gonna be hearing them three months from now proclaiming that they now wish they’d voted for Fred, so that we wouldn’t have had Mitt McHucklebee as the nominee. Stop tilting at windmills and combine for Fred, or you’re no better than some Dimocrat idiot supporting Hillary.
By the end of the month, we'll have heard from New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida. If Duncan Hunter has not gotten good support by then, he's done. Period, end of discussion
By Super Tuesday, conservatives need to unite behind the only candidate who seems a viable real conservative. And it's not going to be the RINO Baptist or the RINO from Massachusetts
It makes sense-— it seems to me, at least-— that a Duncan Hunter proponent would be highly anti-Fred. Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson are diametrically opposite one another when comes to economic matters.
The former doesn’t have any tax-cutting plans to speak of beyond the Fairtax, which is the sort of thing even a moderate like Huckabee can easily promise to support since the 16th Amendment stands no chance of being eliminated during the eight years, while Thompson has a highly practical and specific plan to flatten the income tax and simplify the tax code. This is what one would expect, given that, according to the Club for Growth and the National Taxpayer’s Union, Hunter’s tax cutting record is mixed while Thompson’s is excellent.
Similarly, on trade Duncan Hunter thinks the economic nationalism and corporate welfare of other nations but especially China can only be defeated with economic nationalism and corporate welfare on the part of the United States. On the other hand, as someone who buys into the free market economics of Hayek, Friedman, Thompson believes that free trade is the best way to strengthen the United States and limit government.
One may agree with Hunter or Thompson as one likes, both being plainly good, patriotic men (especially Hunter, who has given so much to this country); but they are not equivalent or even very similar to one another in their politics.