If I don't know who he is or what he's done, then you have really tough sledding getting the average voter to know who he is and what he's done.
Doesn't sound like a feasible plan for winning in 2008 to go with an unknown.
He's not an unknown to most political savvy conservatives. I'm surprised someone who posts to FR knows so little about Duncan Hunter. Perhaps you should educate yourself about him before you say he has no chance. Of course, perhaps you are right, if there are many more like you out there, in particular if they claim to be Republicans, then Hunter probably doesn't stand much of a chance due to the ignorance of the voting public.
The greatest problem Republicans have is that we can't get information about our representatives and movers and shakers and ideas about our side of issues through the regular news outlets.
But someone on the right who wants to become President has to break through the media muzzle. Look at how they talk up a total unknown who has no real experience and accomplishments so that he is now a household word. And the first time I've seen Duncan Hunter so I knew what he looked like was on C-span today.
But I look at Mr. Hunter's list of accomplishments and I can't say that he deserves to be a household word.
I don't know when the American public's idea of qualification for being commander in chief and leader of the free world and President of the United States became so dumbed down that Barrack Obama is even considered to be more than a bad joke by the public. And when I think about the other Republicans who have been President, ... well, they had more accomplishments than having sponsored a border fence bill...
Eisenhower--5 star general who commanded the liberation of Europe
Nixon -- Senator, Vice President
Reagan-- Governor of California, in the trenches fighter against communists in the U.S. for decades(recommend the book Reagan's War)
George H.W. Bush -- Congressman, ambassador to the U.N., ambassador to China, head of C.I.A., Vice President
George W. Bush -- Governor of Texas with a list of accomplishments there, who had a lot of experience also being close to the center of power and learning how the world works as his father's confidante.
Actually our most qualified people for the top spot are Condi Rice and Jeb Bush and Rudy Giuliani.
That Condi and Jeb aren't running represents a victory of the MSM over us, and that should be our main topic of interest...how to stop the MSM from eliminating their opposition. We shouldn't have to be rummaging around in our third string to find a candidate.