Posted on 01/23/2008 6:19:25 PM PST by ExcellenceInAmericacom
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Subject: Hunter Endorses Huckabee for President
From: Gary Becks <garybecks@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, January 23, 2008 2:15 pm
To: Gary go hunter 08 <dlhunter08@yahoo.com>
HUNTER ENDORSES HUCKABEE FOR PRESIDENTFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 23, 2008CONTACT: Gary Becks (619) 334-1655Washington, D.C. - - - Congressman Duncan Hunter, who withdrew his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination on January 19, 2007 , today endorsed Mike Huckabee."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.# # #
Gary Becks
Hunter for President
Media Relations
(619) 334-1655
If he knows something we don't and if his endorsement is to mean anything then he needs to spill the beans about what we don't know. This is meaningless until he can provide some details to his decision process.
I hope Florida goes Romney... I REALLY hope so. I hope he wins in all. Florida would be huge at this stage to make a clear front runner going into super 2s.
Thank you for pointing out that Tancredo endorsed Romney. I don’t remember FReepers having a cow when that happened. But Hunter endorsing Huckabee - now that’s worth having a cow over! Sheeesh already.
Freerepublic.com majority would’ve supported Goldwater over that uppity Reagan.
Virtually everyone associated with RR has been branded a "RINO" here. We use that term with about as much precision as liberals use the term "racist."
Goldwater and Reagan never ran against each other.
” Also, I find it as scary how quickly this group endorses Romney. Absolutely unbelievable and just plain damnable foolishness.”
I will never understand how conservatives on FR could support a liberal slimeball like Flip. It turns my stomach to think that he may very well be the republican nominee. The amount of ignorance I’ve seen displayed here from the fliparoos is mind boggling. WIll Rogers summed it up well when he said, “When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds”. The fliparoos have certainly proven that to be true.
Reagan was Goldwater's keynote speaker at the '64 convention.
Yeah, like Reagan was when he ran:
Reagan, With Eye to '80 Nomination, Woos GOP Moderates on Capital Hill
The Washington Post|Jan 23, 1979|By Bill Peterson
Ronald Reagan, sounding like a prospective bridegroom, about ready to pop the big question, yesterday launched an intense three-day courtship of the Republican congressional establishment, taking special pains to seek the favor of party moderates.
He's probably rolling over in his grave after reading threads like this one ...
If I wanted to be dishonest I wouldn't have added a tagline endorsement - yesterday - and would pretend complete objectivity. I used to have a tagline that read "A Presidential endorsement here forfeits any claim of objectivity" because I think that is a fair presumption. It doesn't mean I, or others, can't be objective just that it is fair to question our motivation. Fine.
That being admitted, Hunter stated before his endorsement of Huckabee that he wouldn't support Romney because of a company's action in regards to military sales to China of which Romney had no role. The company in question was already resurrected when this decision was made absent Romney. That was when I seriously questioned Hunter's "integrity" and this endorsement only adds to my suspicion of his anti-Romney attitude.
“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....and meeting the challenge of China’s emergence as a military superpower that is taking large portions of America’s industrial base.”
Folks, I am openly a Mike Huckabee supporter. Have been since last December when I finally decided on him. Also, if you read my profile you will know that I’m also strongly and firstly a moral conservative.
However, you should also know that professionally I literally eat, live, and breath national defense. My current employment and side employment deal with national defense. I’m not in military intelligence, so my analyses are not those of a MI analyst, but based upon my amateur assessment of the way things are unfolding in this world right now.....China is the BIGGEST threat to the U.S. Much greater even than the Islamists that we will eventually stomp out. China is beating us economically and using the money they gain to build a military that we will probably have to face within 2 decades, if they don’t destroy us economically first. I’m an old “cold-warrior” and China scares me more than the USSR ever did.
Hunter (and apparently Huckabee) understand this. You need to listen. There are many loose cannons in the Mideast and SW Asia that are serious problems (Iran), but the biggest long term threat to future generations is Red China.
Ah yes, Duncan Hunter, the “real” conservative...the one now backing the GOP’s very own version of Jimmah Carter. And to think we endured months of grief from Hunter supporters that accused other Freepers of betraying conservatism because they wouldn’t fall in behind “Hunter’s Rangers”.
“The problem is not with him. It is with those who do not know him.
What a man. God bless him!”
Excuse me while I puke. What a sorry ass excuse.
Just what did the talking points of that courtship entail? It could have been Goldwater in ‘79 and he would have won.
I have taken a deep breath, I have renewed my search for the lesser of evils.
Everyone is neck and neck, in that department.
I am trying to find a candidate who has a histoy of supporting the RKBA, and it is pretty grim.
“The RNC decided two years ago who they were going to have for their nominee.”
Yeah. Sure, like The Great Carnac.
Problem with your theory (and the system) is that every primary until now has been an open primary when socialists can walk into the polls and vote for a Republican nominee. Why in the hell would you exact "payback" when you KNOW this? Why would you endorse the WORST Republican just for some semblance of vengance? I was a supporter of Duncan Hunter, and I an extremely disappointed in him. I then supported Fred, but he entered late and really failed to campaign. We now have only one candidate left... Mitt Romney. He was not my first choice, but he is far better than any of the Dhimmicrats. To sit this one out is to vote for socialism, higher taxes, another Dhimmicratic appointment to the SCOTUS, and a weak national defense!
Your words are few and powerful.. :^)
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