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
Well, I’m not a Huckabee fan, and, no, I can’t really understand why Hunter would pick him. But come on, some people here are totally overreacting. I’d still vote for Hunter again in a heartbeat. He is an excellent Congressman and I am definitely still proud to have supported him. And I will probably do it again, the next time he runs.
As for who I’m going to vote for now, I’m not sure. I’ve decided that I’m not just going to throw my vote away by on a candidate who’s dropped out, but I don’t particularly like any of the remaining contenders, either. This won’t be easy.
Actually, I am an optimist. My reasoning has everything to do with the fact that whoever the nominee is, large numbers of normally Republican voters will not turn out to support the candidate. If Hillary is the nominee, we have a chance only because of hatred for her and Democrats having little problem identifying themselves with the Republican nominee.
No, the 1964 keynoter was the Rockefeller choice, then Governor and later Senator Mark O. Hatfield of liberal OR.
No, he considered an initial run against Nixon in 1968, not Goldwater in 1964. Goldwater in 1976 acquired Nancy Reagan’s eternal wrath when he endorsed G. Ford.
I will support Mitt FRomney now. If I have to listen to that cackle from billary for 4 years I won't make it.
Those aren’t my words. They were quoted and requoted.
Good article. And it gibes with a Duncan Hunter video I saw on trade. Hunter presented that other countries subsidize exports from their nations, while penalizing US imports, and that China devalues its currency to encourage exports. Economic theory concludes that they are hurting themselves by denying themselves better value US goods, in the first case, and reducing individual purchasing power (in dollars and other currencies), in the second case. Theory also says they are hurting us. Economic theory is logical and true. A dumb action hurts everyone. So how to respond? First, state that this is a problem, as Duncan Hunter has done. Then one might threaten a response. Negotiations are tough. Reagan on negotiating with the Soviets said that after negotiating with the Warner brothers, the Russians weren’t so bad.
Is it the water of Hope,AR. ?
Thanks.
“Are you kidding??? There was no bigger Duncan Hunter supporter than I was. He could not have endorsed a candidate farther from his core beliefs than he did. Can you honestly say that Huckabee and Hunter were politically compatible??? This is FREAKIN’ NUTS!!!”
Do you actually know the candidates positions? How would you have felt if he’d endorsed pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-sanctuary city, pro-gay America’s Mayor? How would you feel if he’d endorsed McAmnesty, or Romney (who all the candidates hate, and never had an opinion that stuck for more than an election cycle?) Huckabee is the only candidate I’ve heard, ever, refer to abortion as a holocaust (which it is). He supports traditional marriage and the 2nd ammendment. His most recent stance of his, admittedly, many stances on illegal immigration is “deport them all!” Which candidate, really, was Hunter expected to endorse?
I, being a small government type, am not interested much in Huckabee. But I admire that he stands by his beliefs strongly enough to say some of the most outlandish, this-guy-can’t-get-elected things and still get votes.
“I urge you to just look at the “issues” section of Mitt’s web site. What you’ve heard about Mitt being a liberal just isn’t so.”
What’s your point? Look at the issues section on any of the four remaining candidates’ website, you would think they were all rock-solid conservatives - if you didn’t look any further that is.
I hear Ambassador Keyes is still in the running. Doesn’t that sound thrilling?
“Are you kidding??? There was no bigger Duncan Hunter supporter than I was. He could not have endorsed a candidate farther from his core beliefs than he did. Can you honestly say that Huckabee and Hunter were politically compatible??? This is FREAKIN’ NUTS!!!”
Fine, tell me who he should have endorsed then, give me a name.
“Well, rather than tell us how probably it was an informed decision on Hunter’s part, why don’t you educate us and post Hunter’s reasons for this decision?”
I don’t have anymore information than you do....being what Hunter wrote in his statement. I’m just saying people should take him at his word that he genuinely thinks Huckabee is the best man left standing. If you don’t agree that Huckabee is after giving it a rethink based upon Hunter’s endorsement, that is fine. Just don’t attack Hunter’s integrity or motives in his endorsement. If he was a great guy before, nothing has changed...he is still a great guy.
Of course, if you weren’t a Hunter supporter to begin with, this is actually a moot conversation. Now here is where I’m going to do some speculation....I suspect that the “most” outraged on this forum were never really Hunter supporters to begin with...the outrage is mock.
I am especially suspicious about those that now claim to have switched to Romney from Hunter. That just doesn’t compute in my mind. Actually, it doesn’t compute for Thompson supporters to switch to Romney either. However, I am a biased and bigoted Southern Baptist so I can be ignored as a dumb rube. I’m from Oklahoma, so that alone makes me automatically an idiot to be devotely ignored. I graduated from the University of Oklahom, a clearly inferior institution produces three toed people, etc. etc. Oh, spent time in the military (active & reserve/enlisted and commissioned service) so that also makes me an ignorant retch. I have been a professional government weenie (both at state and federal levels) so that makes me a lazy slug who drains off tax money to line my nest. I’m certain I have many more faults that I’m too stupid to list right now. Oh yes, I’m over 50 so my brain is addled. I can’t spell well either, so I definitely am an idiot. Please help me, I’m certain my deficent brain is forgetting something. Oh, one more, I moved to Missouri to work in national defense...more government tit....!
Mr. Keyes is very smart. I like him. (I’m sure that will flame me)
It just dawned on me, why Hunter endorsed Huckabee:
Hunter doesn’t WANT to be a counterculture hero.
Hunter’s motivated by one thing, and one thing only: what is best for America.
He reads FR, and sees what his cult of personality has become since he left the race, and decided the only way to prevent his own name, from being the rallying cry which brings Hillary to office - is to endorse someone completely unlike himself.
That seems like a logical explanation.
Especially from someone like Duncan Hunter.
“Well pardon this biased & bigoted Southern Baptist, but having an anti-Romney attitude is just plain common sense to me - on many levels.”
But not on a religious level. I want to see a Baptist and a Mormon, or a Catholic and a Jew or a Muslim and a Jew agree and line up on policy, not which faith they practice. This identity, tribal politics has to stop. Look how they’re using the race thing in the democrat fight. Same insanity. It’s killing us. Look around!
Mormons are as good Americans and neighbors as any other religious group, and better than most. I don’t know how long you’ve been ‘Baptist’, but their history has some pretty strange behavior as well. Been there, seen some myself. The Baptists in Arkansas before, after and during the civil war were...oooo....Masons...run with that conspiracy.
One thing all churches have in common; they’re all full of saints and sinners. I know which category I fall in: The biggest one. I just hope Duncan Hunter and Mike Huckabee know what they are as well. I’m not electing a preacher.
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