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To: pissant
>> Hunter saw the field last year - Rudy McRomney- all poison pills to large swaths of conservatives. He mistakenly assumed that he would get support from talk radio, the conservative media and forums like FR. He got only one of three. <<

He got zero out of three. Freepers initially responded warmly to him, then dumped him overboard the moment (less conservative) Fred Thompson's "potential" candidacy was in the works. By the time Fred finally got around to actually running, he had as much success being the "savior" of the GOP grassroots in 2008 than Wesley Clark had with the Dem grassroots in 2004.

And so it went, sadly.

The fact freepers were so willing to toss Hunter to the dogs in favor of a less-conservative (but supposedly more "electable") candidate that hadn't even announced, proves there won't be another "Ronald Reagan" in the near future. A man like him comes around only once in a generation.

291 posted on 02/07/2008 12:19:32 PM PST by BillyBoy (Wasn't the "goal" on FR to STOP Rudy McRomney? Then VOTE HUCKABEE!!)
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You act as if Hunter was at ten or twenty percent in the polls and we all said, “Nah, let’s ditch him and go with Fred.”

His campaign was a wreck, Let’s deal with it like adults instead of coming up with useless recriminations.


460 posted on 02/07/2008 9:44:47 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (Support Scouting: Raising boys to be strong men and politically incorrect at the same time.)
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