Well Ace, this all started to kick your cage and jerk your chain for the way you were treating Palin supporters and Palin herself. I decided to give you some of your own medicine by attacking your "cult" hero Duncan.
I started with one stupid statement by Hunter and you lost it, as I thought you would. I did further research on Hunter and discovered Hunter wasn't the man I thought he was. I had no idea of his close tie with Cunningham on several shady things, that surprised the hell out of me. Hunter, at best appears to be your typical influence peddling for profit, conservative sounding politician. He did many conservative things, which were terrific, but had his hand out also.
To put it bluntly, he can't match Palin in the honesty department just based on the money he had to return once caught. I use the word "caught" because he made no attempt to return it or give it away to charity until found out( at least 2 occasions).
ROFL. Your ignorance on this more hilarious with each post.
Fist it was he gave his seat up to his son because of the “scandal”. Only then you find out (because I was kind enough to tell you) that that occurred in 2005 and he readily won re-election in 2006 with this “scandal” swirling around him.
Second, you show complete ignorance of who pressures whom for funding defense systems. Congress doesn’t pressure the DOD to fund things. Congress FUNDS them. And the DOD complies. THe DOD, usually following the lead of the current administration, lobbies for and against weapons systems.
THird, you are ignorantly conflating things. Cunningham had nothing to do with the funding the VTOL program. That was Hunter’s earmarks from the HASC. And DuPont aerospace had nothing to do with the Cunningham Bribes scandal.
Fourth, explain why a San Diego based defense company WOULDN’T contribute $36,000 over 20 years to their congressman? Especially a defense hawk? And in your conflation of things, you are implying Hunter gave back that money from DuPont. He did not.
Fifth, the reason you are conflating things is because you have no idea what you are talking about.
Sixth, you state hunter had “illegal aerospace contributions”. He did not.
Seventh, you said Hunter “had to give the contributions back”. He didn’t have to. They weren’t illegal.
Eighth, you ask if it was “ever cleared up”. He wasn’t under investigation.
Ninth, you claim Hunter isn’t as honest as Palin. Show me his lies. Or indictments. Or illegal contributions. Or un-idicted co-conspirator status. If accusations by liberals is your method of determining honesty, Lord help ya. If being buddies with a patriot, Top Gun, conservative like Cunningham is dishonest, you’re nuts. In fact, Hunter doesn’t even have the typical political “dishonesty” prevalent amongst 95% of politicians - flip flopping and spinning. He does neither. Palin does. In one breath she says no amensty, the next breath she’s telling Bill O’Reilly that the illegals get to stay and work if they register. Very McCainsian, huh?