What are these “huge policy differences” you see, pogo, and how do they compare with these affinities?:
-— Huckabee is the only one I recall who has signed a “no amnesty” pledge and has a strong plan for border/immigration enforcement.
-— Huckabee is the ONLY one who seems to share any of Hunter’s concerns for maintaining national economic as well as political sovereignty (free trade that is actually free of foreign manipulation).
-— Both men are dedicated pro-lifers and pro-marriage patriots.
-— Huckabee has committed to building up our overstretched military.
I’d like to know EXACTLY how Huckabee is defining “no amnesty” these days! To-date, his version has been a touchback scheme along the lines of the Pence Plan. If that is what Duncan Hunter is endorsing, something is VERY wrong with this picture.
I still think it’s ‘Maria Shriver Syndrome.’
Hunter’s WIFE likes Huckabee.
(Lynne Hunter singing on far left)
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2008/01/lynne-hunter-jan-5-2007-dont-let-press.html
See my repeated links to Michelle Malkin’s post about their differences. Also HotAir.com. And innumerable other flabbergasted posters. Short version: shamnesty, taxation, Gitmo/WOT. There are others, but obviously I’m talking to someone who’s made up his mind.
At least one of your “affinities” are weasel-worded talking points. For example, to believe that Huck is good on illegal immigration — good, in the way that Hunter was demonstrably good for decades — because Huck recently took some pledge is simply silly. You’re the first person to say straight-facedly that Huck is good on this issue, and that is simply shocking. (I’ve had Huck folks say things like, Yeah, he’s weak on that issue, but I have more important ones.) Because this was probably Hunter’s strongest single issue, illegal immigration, I find the endorsement perplexing and, frankly, smelly.
Speaking of recent conversions: The point about guns and abortion and marriage is fair enough given Mitt Romney’s “recent conversion” on those issues, and Giuliani’s frank liberalism on them.
All of the major GOP candidates support a stronger military, so that is not particularly helpful in distinguishing amongst them.