An Open Letter to Rush, Laura I., Michelle M., Mike Gallagher, Glenn Beck, and friends...

First, let me say thank you for your efforts to inject some spine into our public officials this week. You were all correct about this bailout, as were the vast majority of Freepers here on little ol FreeRepublic. We almost pulled off the upset. But as usual, the 'conservative' punditry was split along familiar lines.

The Fred Barneses, Hewitts, Medveds, and the National Review ladies were all pimping the bailout, providing much needed cover for some House Republicans (and democrats) to suddenly see the merits of adding another 150 Billion in pet projects to the $700B socialist card trick Secretary Paulson pulled out of his bloomers last week.

We were defeated, despite valiant efforts. I can hear the anger and frustration in your voices and read it in your written words. The scorn you are heaping onto Washington, dems and GOPers alike, is absolutely justified. I can't even write how I really feel about these traitors to capitalism. No website or forum would tolerate my crude remarks.

However, I would like you to take special note of one Duncan Hunter. Yes, you remember him. Retiring ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee; that deep voiced, serious conservative that coined the term "Kennedy Wing of the Republican party" - referring to several of his 2008 presidential primary rivals. Yes, that guy.

Anyway, I just wanted to point out that Mr. Hunter voted no monday, and once again today. Mr Hunter, in so doing pointed out what should have been obvious and determinant about the so called 'bailout'. Quote: “Instead of doing what is right, Congress pushed forward a plan that, at its core, is no different than what Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson initially proposed. Now, after already bailing out several financial institutions, costing taxpayers billions of dollars, Secretary Paulson will have access to a new and significantly larger line of credit to bailout more Wall Street investors. I believe this is the wrong approach to addressing the condition of our economy and the failures of our banking system."

Hunter also told the San Diego Union Tribune that the "sweeteners" only reinforced his opposition, adding that this boondoggle "brings us one step closer to a nationalized economy".

Now Congressman Hunter was not the only Republican to oppose this bill. There were quite a few. But those quite a few did not include Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney, Tom Tancredo or John McCain. Is it starting to flicker yet?

BTW, Hunter also voted NAY on the recent massive energy bill....the one with all the global warming nonsense and the ban of incandescent lightbulbs. The one that passed overwhelmingly.

And if you recall recent history, Hunter teamed with Jim Sensenbrenner to beat back the Kennedy wing of the party and the dems - led by John McCain - that tried mightily to close Gitmo and end the "torture" of waterboarding.

You may also have vague recollections of an utterly retarded and anti-American Amnesty bill. We all fought it tooth and nail from the outside. But no single politician was more responsible for its defeat than Duncan Hunter. And despite plenty of lip service given during our recently completed primary, only one man said what he meant, and did what he said, in the ongoing struggle to defeat the Republicrats illegal alien coddling for the past 25 years.

And I want to give you a friendly reminder, as you read all the recent and coming articles about China's malfeasance, espionage, dangerous military growth, advanced weapons systems made with US technology, and intellectual property piracy. Duncan Hunter has been calling China out by name and leader for the past 15 years, giving dire warnings of what was to come if we trusted them and sold them advanced technology. The story will only get hotter in the coming months. Too bad we didn't listen to the only rock ribbed anti-communist still in government.

And finally, there was only one candidate running in our primary who played a crucial role in the development of our Missile defense systems, only one that has advocated and actually built border fencing for the past 20 years, only one who wants to re-invigorate US manufacturing by eliminating ALL taxes on US firms who manufacture within our borders, only one who was against the Law of the Sea Treaty in Reagan's day and continues his virulent opposition today, only one whose military expertise even surpasses that of John McCain, only one who sees global warming as nothing but Algorian alramism, only one who has been absolutely convinced for 28 years in Congress that energy independence is a vital strategic necessity, only one who would would scare the bejesus not only out of the terror masters - but also out of the chicoms and Putineskas, and only one man who each of you would admit would make the best damn Commander in Chief available.

Toss in 100% conservative on the 2nd Amendment, on property rights, on the life of the unborn, on "political corrctness", and folks, we have a leader.

I only bring this up, because in 2012, it will be crucial for conservatives to get it right, for the survival of our Republic as we know it. We are going to barely hang on for the next 4 years no matter who wins. So please, guys, next time use your heads, and quit playing the impartial observer. Read up on the differences between the records. And for crap sake, read you emails from me telling you these things. Otherwise, we get what we get. And today is a prime example of the shit we can get when that happens.

Then you allow that Hunter had one, which contradicts that CNN link that you posted.

He had a single delegate to the Wyoming STATE convention, not a delegate to the National convention. He had NO (aka, ZERO, 0, ZIP) pledged delegates. And, as you see by the totals, he had NO delegates at the national convention.

Similarly, you could say the same or better about everyone who was invited to the debate.

Basically, what I said at post #9 was that he should not have been excluded from the debates from that point onward. Your factoid confirms that.

Perhaps that's what you said "basically"...but what you actually said was [bold added for emphasis]:

Third, recall that Hunter was the only candidate in US History to ever get NOT Invited to a series of debates when he had delegates (voters actually voted for him) to his name whereas several of the ones who were invited had no delegates to their name.

...which is just not true. The "several of the ones who were invited" did not have no delegates to their name

I don't disagree with wishing he were included, but to claim that the others had no delegates is just plain wrong. Does Duncan Hunter need falsehoods told to support him? If support of him requires false accusations, is he really that strong a candidate?

In other words, you have no argument. Buzz off, preferably back to "MyBarackObama" where you belong.

Okay, here you go! I don't care how long you have been here, you are rude and vile. It is posts like yours that have led FR down the wrong path. No wonder it is taking more than a month to reach the FReepathon's goal these days. If I get banned, I guess it is no big loss any more.

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McCain/Lieberman = Climate Stewardship Act , Kyoto lite energy restrictions
McCain/Feingold/Thompson = Attack on First Amendment
McCain/Kennedy = Death to America via Reconquista
McCain-Kennedy-Edwards = Profits plaintiffs and trial lawyers, Patients' Bill of Rights
McCain-Re-importation of Drugs = puts the safety of patients at risk by counterfeit drugs
Gang of 14 = screw judges and the President’s right to choose.
Taxes = Voted NO on Pres. Bush’s tax cuts using socialist, class-warfare rhetoric
Pro-life = Avg 60%, pro-embryonic stem cell research, Repubs for Choice endorsement
ACU = in the 60% range the past few years, lifetime 82%
Energy Independence = No to drilling in ANWR
Stand up guy = Keating 5,
RKBA = GOA: D-- http://www.gunowners.org/mccaintb.htm
2.22.08 a liberal gun grabber: http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin430.htm
Defense = Terrorist Bill of Rights, Waterboarding, Gitmo, public attack on Rummy
POW/MIA = Sold out 100s for a lucrative beer deal & land deal for bud Jon Effin
Supports the International Criminal Court
Armed KLA = http://blog.barofintegrity.us/2008/02/14/john-mccain-armed-kosovo-islamic-terrorists.aspx
McCain Bill = a comprehensive approach to tobacco control
http://www.commondreams.org/pressreleases/July98/070898c.htm (July 1998)
Juan Hernandez = Hispanic outreach director who served on Pres. Fox cabinet in Mexico
Rick Davis = Campaign Mgr, lobbyist linked to Verizon, SBC Telcom, Russia+meeting
Charles Black Jr = Chief Pol Adv, lobbyist to AT&T, Alcoa, JPMorgan and U.S. Airways
Steve Schmidt = Sr. Adv. Lobbied Land O' Lakes, UST Public Affairs, Dell, Fannie Mae
Mark McKinnon = Sr. Adv. Lobbied for above and won’t do ad against Obma
Warren Rudman = general campaign manager gave us Souder (told RR he was conserv)
McCain has at least 59 federal lobbyists raising money for his campaign
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1974864/posts
Soros funded = Reform Inst, Repub Mainstreet Partnership, Centrist Coalition

When Republican Senator Jim Jeffords became an Independent, throwing control of the Senate to Democrats, McCain defended him against "self-appointed enforcers of party loyalty."

As chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, McCain was consistently hostile to American enterprise, from media and pharmaceutical companies to technology and energy companies.

McCain used his chairmanship of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee to take on the tobacco industry in 1998, proposing legislation that would increase cigarette taxes in order to fund anti-smoking campaigns and reduce the number of teenage smokers, increase research money on health studies, and help states pay for smoking-related health care costs. The industry spent some $40–50 million in national advertising in response; while McCain's bill had the support of the Clinton administration and many public health groups, most Republican senators opposed it, stating it would create an unwieldy new bureaucracy. The bill failed to gain cloture twice and was seen as a bad political defeat for McCain.

He and Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman wrote the legislation that created the 9/11 Commission, while he and Democratic Senator Fritz Hollings co-sponsored the Aviation and Transportation Security Act that federalized airport security under what became the Transportation Security Administration.

In May 2003, McCain voted against the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, the second round of Bush tax cuts which served to extend and accelerate the first (which he had also voted against), saying it was unwise at a time of war.

His voting record during the 107th Congress, from January 2001 through November 2002, placed him as the sixth most liberal Republican senator

Here is a part of a list put together by SoConPubbie
Fiscal Issues:
1. Socialist Approach to Economics I.: Supports Windfall Profit Tax
2. Socialist Approach to Economics II.: Will Regulate CEO Pay
3. Socialist Approach to Economics III.: Wants to bail out sub-prime losers (many of which are either illegal aliens or lied on their applications) with US tax money.
4. Socialist Approach to Economics IV.: Wants to implement a socialist Health Care proposal that includes providing tax-coffer monies (your tax dollars) to the states to provide Health Care Insurance for those who either refuse to pay for it, or are unable to afford it (mostly illegal aliens).
5. Socialist Approach to Economics V.: Thinks and states that Pharmaceutical companies are evil
6. Voted against President Bush’s tax cuts (called them tax-cuts for the rich)
7. Voted against repealing the death tax.
8. John McCain's Top 10 Class-Warfare Arguments Against Tax Cuts
9. Total support for global warming scam, including the Carbon Cap-and-Trade system.

Judges:
1. Gang of Fourteen (Kept some of President Bush’s best judges from being presented for a vote)
2. McCain tells Clinton supporters they should back him because he voted for Ginsberg and Breyer

Legislation Fathered by McCain:
1. McCain-Fiengold (Assault on Free Speech, Gun Groups and Pro-Life Groups)
2. McCain-Kennedy (Amnesty for criminal Illegal Aliens)
3. McCain-Lieberman (50 cents a gallon gas tax)
4. McCain-Edwards-Kennedy (Many Democrat inspired bad rules included in this monstrosity)

Gun-Rights - 2nd Amendment Issues:
1. F grade from Gun-Owners of America.
2. C grade from NRA.
3. 2000/11/20 - McCain participates in the production of a gun control spot for Oregon's Proposition Five. (Circa this date, prior to the November election.)
4. 2001/05/15 - McCain introduces the Gun Show Loophole bill S890, with Carper, Lieberman, DeWine, Clinton, and Schumer co/sponsoring.

General All-Around Unreliability on Conservative and GOP issues:
1. 65% score from American Conservative Union in 2006
2. Flirted with the idea of crossing over to the Dems in 2004.
3. Refuses to drill in ANWR.
4. Has accepted funding from Soros and Teresa Heinz-Kerry for his institute
5. "I think the Democrat Party is a fine and I have no problems with it, in their views and philosophy"
6. Missed 60.8 % of all votes. Most of any Senate Member [NOTE: now at 64.1%]
7. The list of shame: John McCain's votes against the GOP and conservatism in general.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m000303/votes/against-party/

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