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
“He could not have endorsed a candidate farther from his core beliefs than he did.”
Answer - Because Huckabee isn’t really that far from Hunter, it has just been spun that way by third columnists here in FR.
“Can you honestly say that Huckabee and Hunter were politically compatible???”
Answer - Yes. Right after Huckabee had his “surge” he stated in an interview I happened to catch that he thought Duncan Hunter would make an excellent choice for SecDef in a Huckabee adminstration. He said this when someone asked him what he thought about fellow candidates.
Presidential candidates don't do this. You are reading way to far into his motivation. It seems to be payback. It won't help.
It just goes to show we never know anyone, including the policital folks, as well as we think we do. I think this is going to make many of us look with real distrust at all the candidates now. And somehow we have to make a selection. To stay home and not vote is = to what happened when some got frustrated back in the day and voted for Perot and gave the election to Clinton when 67% of the voters wanted someone else..he won by default.: (
If I myself were as honorable as I believe Duncan Hunter is (and I’m not, though I try to do what is right), I would be *alarmed* seeing those who supported me, invoking my name as their rallying cry to abandon the next election to Democrats.
And I would do what I thought most likely, to stop them.
I think it’s very possible, this is exactly what Duncan Hunter has decided to do.
For America.
Just a wild idea..what if....just what if Huck turns out to be the nominee..do you tink Huck would then select Hunter as his VP a Huck/Hunter ticket???
“Understand, he knows Huckabee better than any of you.”
Duncan Hunter does not know Mike Huckabee better than I do. Hunter cannot tell me anything about Huck that I don’t already know - but, from the sounds of the endorsement, it looks like Hunter is choosing to trust Huck’s campaign rhetoric over his RECORD.
Republicans, and talk radio listeners, and Freepers supposedly wanted a REAL CONservative...And the only real CONservative during the primaries, Duncan Hunter, is soundly rejected. And then he endorses one of the two most liberal candidates. And you want to know why I didn’t endorse a candidate yet?
Schmuck America doesn’t really know what it wants. I am convinced most picked Romney in the beginning because he seemed to have the best chance of winning. He be the “edjoomacated” choice. Ditto for Thompsons supporters, who wanted ReganRedux. They were mostly wowed by his “star” power.
Bush has let us down to the point where he is almost universally regarded as a failure. Rudy’s post 9/11 luster has turned into a terminal case of rust that a tanker full of WD-40 and one ton of scotch brite pads wont cure. What did they have in common? LIBERAL REPUBLICANT’S.
Now that is all we have left. I’m not sure either of the two can beat The Obamination or The Pantsuit. Congratulations. We have lost already.
Actually Maureen Reagan ran against Barry Goldwater, Jr. for the GOP Senate nomination in California, in 1982. The winner of course was San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson, later governor. (Things have certainly gone downhill in California)
So Huck is your guy. Right? (Flip that logic and ask if Duncan would want Mike’s support)
It's hilarious... At some point Duncan became FT-2 :)... I heard a lot about 'the only two 'conservatives' left,' meaning they were the same... and this was NEVER true.
Duncan is what he has always been, basically a Social-Conservative, Strong Military, Anti illegals, and one had plenty of criticism with all these International trade agreements (protectionist by our fiscal friends), definately not a "globalista." which is what all our fiscal/economic friends seem to want...FREE TRADE at any cost /s!.. even if that wrecks our jobs and everything else.
At one point I bought the arguement that it was inevitable to have manufacturing jobs gone. The solutiojn? EDUCATION, RETRAINING!... So people did it... Many people got training in Computer Networks etc... THEN... all of the sudden these jobs are also on the 'outsourcing block!.
Now I am saying to myself...Hmmm... there is somehting wrong here... let's slow down and take a look. I mean the idea, that anyone's job is on the line, SIMPLY because some a**ho** CEO wants to outsource it to make more money for the company... IS THAT REASON ENOUGH?... IS IT?... Is the duty of a company, just to make profits.... and to hell with everything else? is it? I don't think so.
Something tells me this is not the way the game is played :) Free trade? Yes, but only if it's fair trade.
Thanks for the update.. :^)
Actually I think I’ve ended up in the Mitt camp.
I think Mitt’s getting an undeserved, bad rap in these parts.
In fact, he’s probably the strongest Republican candidate to run since Ronald Reagan.
Great post, AuntB. Romney was respectful and welcoming of Catholics, Evangelicals, and Mormons alike. He set the standard for decency, honor, and graciousness in molding a coalition of conservatives who often had very deep differences of opinion doctrinally but who were committed to Reagan’s conservative vision. The Mormon and Evangelical bashing that takes place on a daily basis by supposed conservatives at FR would not have pleased him. Such people dishonor his memory and legacy.
He is out of a job a year from now.
Huckabee/hunter in 08?
He will win the nomination. The best we can do is tell him why.
Hunter endorsing the Huckster?
Alternate theory:
Hunter grabbed a bottle to drown his campaign sorrows, and has still curing his condition with the hair of the dog that bit him, when he made the endorsement.
Logically, and if sober, Hunter should have endorsed Fred Thompson, and if he had advance notificatin of Fred’s fade out, then Romney as the least RINO of the RINO’s.
Yes, let's be honest. You are a big fan of Mormons? You are in favor of theocracy (if Baptist)?
Reagan was a big fan of Mormons.
It's ok to appeal to GOP moderates. Nothing wrong with that. As long as you don't forsake core principles. It is a bit more problematic to appeal to Dem moderates. And even more so when/if you abandon core principles. Reagan was adamant about making sure there was a difference between Republicans and Democrats. He said you don't act like Democrats to try to get their vote. You act like a Republican to give the Americans a clear choice when they vote. Your presentation of him as a moderate a la Huckabee is completely inaccurate and without foundation.
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