I’m not blaming the rank and file voters, I’m blaming the conservatives who actually pay attention. If all the folks who said I really like Hunter, but gee, he probably can’t win, would have instead sent him 50 or 100 bucks, we would not be in this ridiculous place.
Hey dude, I thought that you were on a mini-vacation...
again, as someone who felt that way about Hunter, had Hunter demonstrated in some way that he truly was capable of winning, he would have received the cash necessary yahda yada. you are letting him off the hook and it’s just WRONG. you could have the best product in the world since sliced bread and if it isn’t promoted properly it will go nowhere. you can’t BLAME the consumers for not buying the product, you blame the sales team for their woefully inadequate promotion of that product. Now, i am with you as far as demanding an explanation from Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Rush, Hannity etc. because they truly WERE in a position to do more for the promotion of these candidates, but they did not. i feel no culpability for not sending any $ to Hunter, because i knew he wasn’t going anywhere, and he did nothing to dissuade me from that opinion.
Nobody owes Hunter $100 bucks, it’s his job to persuade them to hand it over.
And it’s not the media’s job to cover everyone who declares themselves a candidate. It’s the candidate’s job to attract enough of a groundswell that the media have to cover him.
Rush’s show is not a public service for conservatives, it’s his livelihood which means ratings.
Now if Hunter, or Thompson, had lost a la Gore in 2000, by the slimmest of margins, you and I might have a right to complain. But they didn’t even come close. That tells me even without all the adversity you mentioned, the final result would not have been different.
The problem too is that most in American have never heard of Duncan Hunter and still haven’t heard of him. They need familiar names to help them in the voting booth.