[counterpunch]

Hunter must be doing something right...alot of FRedbots on this thread with their panties in a twist.

Well I like Duncan Hunter a lot, actually.
I wanted him to place at the top of the one percenters.

I think he's one of the few candidates of any real substance, and unlike a lot of the guys on the GOP stage, he has a concise, serious, and articulate presidential projection.
However, for whatever reason he just cannot catch on.
Perhaps because he talks too much substance and not enough hyperbolic red meat, hollow platitudes, and sloganeering soundbites.

Anyways, no Duncan Hunter for you.
The notion that Hunter is any threat to Thompson at all is laughable.
How can a guy who gave it his best and still lost to him when he didn't even show up be any sort of threat?
Get real for just one second.
Hate to break harsh reality to you, but Duncan is over before he really began.
This is the beginning of the end for him.
He'll be out of the race within a few weeks at the most.

You might as well get behind Fred before Mitt or Rudy runs away with the nomination.

 

[buckeye49]

Boy are you wound up! But you’re wrong. Duncan Hunter will be the winner when the wheat is separated from the chaff. He is the best of the best.

[WFTR]

You might as well get behind Fred before Mitt or Rudy runs away with the nomination.

I trust Mitt Romney more than I trust Fred Thompson. I don't like everything that Mitt Romney has said or done over the years. I've sent money to Duncan Hunter and not to Mitt Romney because Duncan Hunter has been fighting for my beliefs for all of these years. However, the weaknesses in Mitt Romney's record have at least some excuse in his living in a liberal state and wanting to make the changes that would keep that state solvent and efficient. He couldn't have done anything in Massachusetts if he'd campaigned as a hard-core pro-lifer.

Fred Thompson doesn't have that excuse. As a popular senator from Tennessee, he could have stood strong for conservative principles. He didn't have to embrace campaign finance reform. He didn't have to vote for the Lautenberg gun ban. He had the political capital to tell people that the ban was a bad idea that sounded good to people who weren't thinking very deeply. He could have voted to convict Clinton on both counts of impeachment. I know that he has a long explanation for his vote, but the vote was still the wrong vote. I'll continue supporting Mr. Hunter until he quits the race or until he seems to be mathematically eliminated, but when that day comes, I'd rather support Mitt Romney than Fred Thompson. The more often I read posts by Fred Thompson supporters, the less likely I am to support him.

Bill