The Conservative Case for Duncan Hunter

TownHall.com ^ | 2/2/07 | John Hawkins

[zbigreddogz]

Look, any reasonable person could come up with 1000 ways McCain is better then Hillary by objective standards, but even if there weren't, I'd still favor McCain for one reason: He'd win the WOT. Hillary will raise the white flag.

So basically, the difference between the two, if nothing else, is Hillary = Slow road to Sharia Law. McCain = Not.

[The Blitherer]

Probably not... I'd say that you probably learned who to vote for from your minister.

Right, cause young women can't make up their minds on their own? Go back to DU where those opinions belong.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Rudy on the other hand has an utter disregard for human life.

Oh stop... I know your kind... anyone who is even remotely pro-choice has 'an utter disregard for human life'.

That's 10 lbs of hyperbole in a 5-lb sack.

[tfelice]

You cannot blame the voting base for voting their conscious - especially when it comes to the life or death issue. The only one to blame would be the GOP for abandoning their party principle.

[zbigreddogz]

Oh, I'd vote for Hunter in a second.

Won't make a bit of difference. He'll still lose 35 states, but I'll certainly vote for him.

Unlike the unappeasables, I'll vote for a dog over Hillary.

[The Blitherer]

No - I'd guess you learned about government in church.

Nope, wrong answer, but thanks for playing.

[zbigreddogz]

You cannot blame the voting base for voting their conscious

I think you mean Conscience, but even at that, if someone's conscience = putting Hillary in the WH, I question if you're conscience is functioning.

[beltfed308]

"If Hunter does get the nomination, how many of these Rudy McRomneyites will swallow the bile they have been spewing and vote for him?",/i>

Please be nice to them as they are angry that their man hasn't decided what party he is running under yet. I will LMAO if it is what I think it will be.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1777991/posts

[James Ewell Brown Stuart]

I want Hunter, so he can be assured of one vote in the primary. If that is the only one he gets then I will still cast it proudly. And all your posts to the contrary will not get me to change my mind.

[agere_contra]

It's great that Hunter is running. He may win the primary. And if he doesn't, his very presence as an authentic conservative will halt the run-to-the-left that the DBM so desperately want us to adopt ("Its McCain vs Rudy!!!"). I wish him luck.

[Lunatic Fringe]

"If Hunter does get the nomination, how many of these Rudy McRomneyites will swallow the bile they have been spewing and vote for him?"

A hell of a lot more than the turnout of the Religious Right if we don't nominate an anti-abortion Evangelical!

The Fundies are notorious for taking their ball and running home if we don't play their game the way they like. I personally think if we can get rid of them, we'd gain more moderate Independents and Conservative Democrats than we would lose to the new Pat Robertson Party.

[tfelice]

48 million babies have been killed since Roe v Wade. Anyone who does not fight against that will not get my vote under any circumstances.

[Antoninus]

And you clearly don't understand trade deficits or a lot of other really basic economic concepts.

I'm a "mostly free" trader and I support Hunter wholeheartedly. I'm not a single-issue voter...

[Sopater]

I understand that McCain is far more conservative than Clinton, however he's not the guy I'd vote for. If you'd vote for someone in the primaries just because you think that they'll be the only one who can beat your sworn enemy in the general election, you're nothing but a tool of your favorite political party regardless of how smart you are.

[Hydroshock]

Amen

[The Blitherer]

48 million babies have been killed since Roe v Wade. Anyone who does not fight against that will not get my vote under any circumstances.

Same here. I'm sorry, but I believe life begins at conception, and that makes abortion murder. I will NOT vote for a candidate who supports murder. Call me an evangelical fascist wack-job if you want, rant and rave about how I'm putting Hillary in the White House, it won't change my mind. There are some things that go beyond politics, and killing babies is one of them.

[Antoninus]

The Fundies are notorious for taking their ball and running home if we don't play their game the way they like.

You've just put your finger on something very important. You've apparently figured out that you can't keep spitting in religious conservatives' face and stil expect them to support you. Where the disconnect comes in is that you seem to think that religious conservatives should continue to support Republicans who are so openly disdainful of them. Why would any group with significant political clout do that??

It's really simple. If you want the votes of religious conservatives, you've at least got to act like you don't hate them...

[ElPatriota]

WOW... HE IS LOOKING BETTER ALL THE TIME, GREAT ARTICLE...

Time to lend a helping hand?...:)

Grassroots! Grassroots! :)

[taxed2death]

"He's anti-free trade, period."

Second time.

Proof?

Or do you just like to see what you type appear on the little screen in front of you?

[Antoninus]

Same here. I'm sorry, but I believe life begins at conception, and that makes abortion murder. I will NOT vote for a candidate who supports murder.

God bless the both of you. I feel exactly the same way. The pro-life issue is absolutely disqualifying for me--especially if the candidate is a Republican.