MI/ duncan hunter pings!!
Saw Hunter, Romney, on Saturday in person very close-up at the “Defending The American Dream Summit” in MI and IIRC there also one other event here the past weekend that they both appeared, hmmm. Romney and Hunter both spoke off-the-cuff, never looking at a note and both very charming. McCain was also at the summit, read his text rarely looking up, and was booed on three topics, heckled on two.
I have the feeling that Romney and Hunter are better friends than the public really knows...
(Hunter also introduced his son to the audience, Marine Captain Duncan Jr. who shook my hand rather sturdy on the way out the aisle, as one would expect from a Marine running for Congress.)
B4DH.
The Pinnacle Center is nice. Been there a few times.
There are some people still alive in this country who lived through World War II, either in uniform or, as most Americans did, working in some capacity that directly or indirectly supported the war effort. Through a sense of patriotism, they sacrificed their personal needs for the good of their country. Gasoline and rubber were in short supply and were rationed, so car travel was very limited. But that's ok, because there weren't any Motel 6s or Holiday Inns either. The US was still in the Great Depression, only you wouldn't know it by the government's economic reports. The war had "solved" the unemployment problem.
Now, this is by way of putting some background behind Rep. Hunter's Second Important Issue, rebuilding the "Arsenal of Democracy."
Does he really expect the American public to make the kinds of sacrifices our parents and grandparents made to defeat the Germans and the Japanese? To wage a war against third-world terrorists who don't have an army, a navy or an air force?
I don't think so.
Another little factoid that is not often discussed, but still very much relevant to Hunter's campaign is that the US is currently the world's leading exporter of munitions. (It used to be the USSR, but that country fell on hard times.) How much more would he want us to manufacture?
Does Brownback's love of ILLEGAL immigration trump the life issue?
from my e-mail (lifenews.com)
"John McCain Questioned on His Opposition to Abortion, GOP Pro-Life Platform Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A pro-life advocate who works within the Republican Party is questioning presidential candidate John McCain's opposition to abortion and his position on a human life amendment. The GOP platform currently supports a human life amendment that would afford legal protection for unborn children from abortions. McCain has a strong pro-life voting record in the Senate on abortion but has come under fire before for apparently flip-flopping on whether he supports the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
He's also disappointed pro-life advocates with his repeated votes for embryonic stem cell research funding. Colleen Parro, the head of the Republican National Coalition for Life, talked with the Cybercast News Service and said she is "not comfortable" with McCain's position on pro-life issues. "It indicates that he is willing to vote for measures that regulate or restrict the practice of abortion," Parro said. "But in terms of ending legal abortion, there's no evidence he shares that goal with those of us that are pro-life." "His position in support of embryonic stem-cell research indicates that Mr. McCain is not truly pro-life. If you support killing people at the very outset of their lives, then there is no possible way you would support ending legal abortion," she told CNS."
McCain’s Massive Energy Consumption Tax
Townhall Election Coverage | 1-13-2008 | Hugh Hewitt
Posted on 01/14/2008 3:32:33 AM EST by unspun
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953292/posts
Gun Vote Could Decide Michigan GOP Primary
Townhall.com | January 12, 2008 | Sandy Froman
Posted on 01/13/2008 10:10:15 AM EST by Kaslin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1952972/posts
Just wondering what he was doing. He dropped out months ago.
In some ways in Iowa Romney was a victim of his own success. Rudy and McCain pulled out of Iowa in April the moment Romney passed them in the polls and they realized they couldn't compete there. (He chartered all the in state commercial busses for the straw poll, forcing all the other candidates to pay out of the nose and hire out of state busses. Good old capitalism at work). That made space for bottom tier Huck to rise. The MSM has tried to focus on Romney's religion to the exclusion of his fiscal conservatism and business and leadership expertise. Huck's one note campaign has been the religion issue. The I'm the other religious guy. Thankfully the National spotlight brought out his liberal tendencies soon enough. Romney did come in a close second in Iowa though maintaining his delegate lead now. Romney has campaigned in the other guy's territory and draws enough support to do well in those places. The other guys have not cut into Romney's territory at all. It's why he will eventually win. Romney got a good chunk of the evangelical vote in Iowa, while Huck didn't even set foot in Wyoming. Romney came in a close second to McCain's most powerful state NH, while McCain knows he can't win the west over Romney. Romney has the ground organization in Florida (with Jeb Bush's campaign team working for him since early 07) to beat or come in a close second to Rudy. Rudy hasn't even campaigned anywhere yet.
Romney led Brownback in Kansas, his home state, as well. Eventually Brownback dropped out.