OMG, defending the WTO on FR??? I felt the chill lately, but I had no idea.....
Posted on 01/19/2008 9:41:41 AM PST by pissant
I was surprised to hear Rush Limbaugh the other day say that there was no 'Thoroughbred' Conservative in the 2008 Republican nomination Field for President. I was thinking to myself, What? Rep. Duncan Hunter is Conservative right down the line. From his web site: Hunter' Ratings
National Rifle Association: A+
Americans for Better Immigration: A+
Eagle Forum: 100%
Christian Coalition: 100%
Family Research Council Action: 100%
Campaign for Working Families: 100%
Concerned Women for America: 100%
National Right to Life Committee: 100%
Federation for American Immigration Reform: 100%
National Federation of Independent Business: 100%
Gun Owners of America: A (Read GOA article here)
** GodVoters.org: A ** (the ONLY A they gave) (See their endorsement here)
American Conservative Union: 92%
Americans for Tax Reform: 88.5% (lifetime, most recent rating was 100%)
National Tax Limitation Committee: 88
National Taxpayers Union: B
ACLU: 7% (indicates very conservative)
NARAL: 0% (indicates a pro-life record)
Exactly how Conservative can you get? Ok, so what's with Limbaugh? Simple, found this On the Hill article that says:
"It is difficult to change Rep. Duncan Hunter’s mind. House leadership officials and the White House have found that out the hard way."
"When they wanted him to vote for a pending trade bill last year, Hunter (R-Calif.) refused — again and again. And when the Bush administration tried to convince the powerful Armed Services Committee on its controversial port security plan, Hunter refused to budge."
"Twisting Hunter’s arm is impossible, his close friends say."
The article continues:
"And Hunter, whom many call a protectionist, was instrumental in scuttling a deal that would have given the operations at six major U.S. ports to Dubai Ports World, a company owned by the United Arab Emirates."
“He was shocked that the administration approved the deal,” said Rep. Jim Saxton (R-N.J.), a senior member of Hunter’s committee and a close friend. Saxton worked with Hunter to introduce legislation blocking the deal and revising the foreign-investment process to ensure national security.
“On the Dubai issue, he got all fired up,” a congressional source said. Hunter gathered information to prove that Dubai has not been trustworthy — despite repeated administration assertions that the UAE is a vital ally in the war on terrorism."
"It is not often that a guest on a TV news program has the boldness to put the interviewer’s political-activism past in the open, but Hunter wasn’t one to shy away. He made sure to point out, three times, that George Stephanopoulos, the host of ABC’s “This Week,” had worked for President Clinton, who supported the Dubai Ports deal."
“I don’t think President Clinton, your old boss, knows the facts of the transshipment that take place through Dubai sending nuclear components to all parts of the world,” Hunter told Stephanopoulos, in one of the references to Clinton."
I remember Rush getting particularly getting bent out of shape on the issue:
Rush probably felt he could personally change every American's mind on the issue from behind the EIB Golden Microphone, but alas, the deal fell through. Is El Rushbo taking out his frustration on the actual 'Thoroughbred Conservative' Republican Candidate for POTUS in 2008?
Hey Rush, why don't you give your ego a break bud?
“On the Dubai issue, he got all fired up,” a congressional source said. Hunter gathered information to prove that Dubai has not been trustworthy — despite repeated administration assertions that the UAE is a vital ally in the war on terrorism.”
God Bless Duncan Hunter ! He puts his COUNTRY and it’s security FIRST, before his Party, or his own political ambitions. He does what’s RIGHT, regardless of the cost.
Hunter is the REAL DEAL. I voted for him in the NH Jan.8th Primary, and I’d do it again in a heartbeat.
They sure are worked up about the nobody votes , aren’t they? :’)
I don't have control over any of these guys. I'm not on their campaign staff. I'm not their campaign managers. Endorsing during primaries, I don't care if it's federal, state, or local, is something that I have stayed away from as a political and professional practice, and I have not abandoned it at this point, and I'm not going to. But in light of this, because I haven't endorsed, there are those of you out there who want me to endorse your candidate because you think if I were to come out in favor of your candidate that it would provide a boost, and so what happens is -- actually throughout the whole fall and the early winter -- people were calling here, "Why don't you endorse somebody?" Why don't you endorse this candidate or that candidate, happened to be their own, and I gave my reasons for not doing so. ~~~ Rush Limbaugh
I think he probably likes him and I like him too. However, he just isn’t a great public speaker. There’s more to being a good/acceptable president than just merely having a correct voting record. One needs to have some ability to persuade other people. Or as Ronald Reagan once said , “if they can’t see the light we’ll make them feel the heat”.
OMG, defending the WTO on FR??? I felt the chill lately, but I had no idea.....
No, they wouldn’t bother to get informed. They like to bash Rush just as they like to bash President George W. Bush.
Hunter has a lot to offer, but not the backing of the media or the money.
He’s not as underhanded as most candidates either.
I’m sorry but everybody knows Duncan Hunter is not going anywhere in this election. Let me say he is a great patriot and a good man but he’s not gonna be president and there’s nothing his supporters can do about it. VP or senior level cabinet position maybe if he plays his cards right.
Yep, I reckon he did. I suppose since Fred said he had to win SC, he will be gone and those ‘conservatives’ that supported Fred will support Hunter now, right? LOL! They are finding seats in the Romney, McCain, Rudy and Huckabee camps as we speak. :)
It's all about the money (see tagline). The party is owned by corporate elites with deep pockets. Free trade was rammed through congress to allow these corporate elites to move their factories to cheaper labor markets overseas and turning a blind eye to illegal immigration allows cheap labor to move to the US to service all of those businesses that due to relatively high distribution costs of their products must remain in the US. This has always been about enriching the corporatists and leaving the rest of us in a third world country with a mountain of debt. They’re grifters looking for the next labor market to exploit. DH represents a real threat to the corporatists due to his two strongest issues- illegal immigration and fair trade, both of which hit the corporatists in the wallet. Not only is the GOP in danger, this country is in peril.
Oh please! He has done everything BUT formally endorse him. Just go on some of the threads to see the fredheads say that he did. Meanwhile, he will not let the words DUNCAN HUNTER cross his lips anymore. (Well, I don’t know about the last 2 weeks as I have now turned him off.)
I agree it sure is.
This selection of candidates is separating the wheat from the chafe. Has made it easier to spot the real conservatives.
“Rush knows which side his bread is buttered on. He’s a globalist pusher, any trade deal lover, Dubai enabler.”
The trade issue has not has a real vetting yet. Everyone has been told that “free trade” is = to freedom. Others say “fair trade” is what needed.
There is a huge difference between the two.
Times have been OK for over 20 years or so, so who would not think free trade is the way to go?
The fact that we have chosen not to manufacture most of our products changes our economic foundation. We are at the top of the economic pecking order but this makes us more dependent on the people that support the bottom of that foundation.That would be China and the rest of the world.
We can’t really control what they do so we no longer have near as much control of our future.
Rush has been pro free trade because he knows what will happen if trade wars break out.
Small steps need to be taken over time. A protectionist candidate will not get the Rockefeller wing of the Republican party and will get creamed in the general.
I still believe that the post dot-com bust was never allowed to fully run it’s course. After the bust the fed started pumping money into the system to prevent a resection creating the bubble we are now in.
And in all this time most of the long term capital investment has been made out of our country.
A Capitalist country needs capital. To see us need to borrow
vary large amounts of capital from China is proof of who is the Capitalist Power.
And who's responsibility was it to raise him up, liberal democrats?
Oh is that so, mr not-so-brilliant?
I think only a fool would play the game of guess-who-can-beat-the-dem and support that candidate. There’s no way to predict these things. We have some “geniuses” claiming that the best way to predict who is best in the final election is to look at their negative poll numbers. If that’s the case, then the most likely candidate to lose to the dems is mit romney. And the most likely dem to lose to the republicans is hillary.
Now what do you have to say for yourself?
Maybe its because Mitt Romney is essentially Rush’s boss (Romney’s Bain Capital bought Clear Channel which employs Limbaugh).
Exactly! You have a great grasp on the truth of the matter. I like to say, “The ‘Free Traders’ don’t want their boat rocked, because their boat is a 90 ft. yacht.”
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