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Duncan Hunter Endorses Mike Huckabee
National Review Online ^ | 1-23-08 | Byron York

Posted on 01/23/2008 12:29:02 PM PST by TitansAFC

This was a surprise. From the Hunter statement:

"I got to know Governor Huckabee well on the campaign trail," said Hunter. "Of the remaining candidates I feel that he is strongly committed to strengthening national defense, constructing the border fence and meeting the challenge of China's emergence as a military superpower that is taking large portions of America‚s industrial base."

"Along with these issues of national security, border enforcement and protecting the U.S. industrial base, I see another quality of Mike Huckabee's candidacy that compels my endorsement. Mike Huckabee is a man of outstanding character and integrity. I saw that character over the last year of campaigning and was greatly impressed. The other Republican candidates have many strengths and I wish them all well. My personal choice is Mike Huckabee," Hunter concluded.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008endorsements; 399badchecks; badcheckduncan; cakemix; checkbouncer; duncanhines; duncanhunter; duncanknows; finalimplosion; huckabee; hunter; hunteryouidiot; leastofevils; primary; stuckonstupid; twilightzone; voteronpaul; whocares; wtf
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To: CindyDawg

Sorry. That was a hiccup. I wasn’t spamming.


921 posted on 01/23/2008 3:43:15 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: All

Maybe it’s time for a lot of FReepers to look at themselves in the mirror.


922 posted on 01/23/2008 3:43:16 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: DCPatriot

Come on now. You don’t have to continue to insult we Duncan Hunter supporters.

That shows very little class.


923 posted on 01/23/2008 3:43:19 PM PST by freekitty
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To: unspun
The Spirit of Wisdom tends to have a quiet voice.

Drowned out by the Voice of Wifey, methinks.

924 posted on 01/23/2008 3:43:21 PM PST by b9
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To: Berlin_Freeper

No, I didn’t leave out Romney. Rush seems ok with Romney - I’m not going to repeat everything I heard him say on it. His website might.


925 posted on 01/23/2008 3:43:23 PM PST by CottonBall (The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. (Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854 ))
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To: Gipper08

You single out votes Hunter made that, in your mind, paints him as corrupt? If you choose to do that then it is quite logical that you would apply the same brush to the rest of his peers as well. Would you not?


926 posted on 01/23/2008 3:44:19 PM PST by afnamvet
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To: TitansAFC

I think the GOP died this week, along with Heath Ledger.


927 posted on 01/23/2008 3:44:57 PM PST by RatsDawg (www.rootforamerica.com David Huckabee Killed My Dog!)
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To: TitansAFC

So much for the conservative Duncan Hunter...


928 posted on 01/23/2008 3:45:12 PM PST by celtic gal
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To: TitansAFC
With all of our first choices out, Huckabee is the last of the Mohicans.

After Huckabee you won’t have anyone left that is even close to being Conservative.

Watch for Thompson to endorse Huckabee, and real soon too.

Then we can enjoy another Romney whine-fest.

929 posted on 01/23/2008 3:45:55 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
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To: jmyrlefuller; La Enchiladita
To not endorse a candidate (virtually every Congressman does) would have been an insult beneath his manners.

I disagree. "Manners" should not take precedence over principles. Fred dropped out, yet hasn't endorsed anyone. If there's nobody worth endorsing, it would be bad "manners" to do it anyway, for no reason except because it is expected. Not to mention against one's principles.
930 posted on 01/23/2008 3:46:01 PM PST by CottonBall (The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. (Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854 ))
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To: Rock&RollRepublican

NPR, Time, and usatoday have all started pushing Romney recently. That is the core of the liberal media.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-01-16-romney-sc_N.htm

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1703575-2,00.html

I don’t have a link for the NPR, but I hear it all the time because they play NPR news on the jazz station I listen to.

Days after this came out, I heard several stories about Romney on NPR news.

Forty-seven percent (47%) say they will vote against Romney— as high as Hidlebeast.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/for_or_against_presidential_candidates

Romney does especially bad in upper mid west Iowa, Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, Indiana, etc. That is were the election will be won or lost.

In a political campaign, it is much easier to add to positives then it is to subtract negatives.


931 posted on 01/23/2008 3:46:53 PM PST by FreedomProtector
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To: Kimberly GG

I suspect we will see and hear Huckabee talking and acting very differently in the coming weeks. There is not a candidate remaining that isn’t a recent convert, so one is as good or as bad as the other. Huckabee is malleable and respects Hunter and also an endorsement of Huckabee jams a thumb in the eye of the GOP elite. Huckabee is the best communicator in the pack and with someone behind him that knows what to communicate; They overlook him at their own peril.


932 posted on 01/23/2008 3:47:05 PM PST by WildcatClan (The epitome of irony is that few entities exist, less common, than common-sense.)
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To: PreciousLiberty

I felt the same way..was frustrated that Hunter wasn’t getting more press, despite his inability to speak well..he is worse at bungling speech than Bush. Then he backs Huckabee...I hope Fred Thompson doesn’t throw a curve ball like this when he finally decides to back someone.


933 posted on 01/23/2008 3:47:13 PM PST by celtic gal
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To: WildcatClan
Huckabee is the best communicator in the pack and with someone behind him that knows what to communicate; They overlook him at their own peril.

Agreed.
934 posted on 01/23/2008 3:50:04 PM PST by FreedomProtector
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To: b9

And Thompsons young wife goaded him into running, didn’t she?


935 posted on 01/23/2008 3:50:11 PM PST by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: Gipper08; afnamvet
...Flake amendments... We may be arguing over semantics but Hunter voted the wrong way on all these historic votes in last several years.

70% or more of Republicans voted against the Flake amendments. Tell me, oh wise one: Are all 70+% of those congresscritters "corrupt" because of it? (HINT: They voted against the Flake amendments because they were a joke and BAD LAW!)

936 posted on 01/23/2008 3:51:31 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: processing please hold

Are you married?


937 posted on 01/23/2008 3:51:35 PM PST by b9
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To: NewCenturions

No exploding head, here. I was a Hunter supporter. I just wonder if he looked to see if Huckafrauds fingers were crossed behind his back.

Really peculiar. I’ve never noticed Huckster even mentioning China in any way, shape, matter or form.

Anybody?


938 posted on 01/23/2008 3:51:49 PM PST by jamndad5 ("I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.")
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To: TitansAFC

Another one of my heros comes crashing to Earth.


939 posted on 01/23/2008 3:52:29 PM PST by Tolkien (There are things more important than Peace. Freedom being one of those.)
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To: djreece
It speaks volumes that the candidates who have had a chance to get to know one another personally generally like Mike and dislike Mitt, as did the Iowa voters who were able to evaluate candidates face-to-face.

There are two assumptions in that statement that I have no reason to believe at face value.

I don't think they get to know each other. They avoid each other on the campaign trail.

And I've seen no evidence that any of the other candidates like each other at all.

940 posted on 01/23/2008 3:52:46 PM PST by Dog Gone
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