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Fox News Live Thread: Candidates to Sell Conservative Credentials at Republican Debate
Fox News ^ | 10-21-2007

Posted on 10/21/2007 2:19:55 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache

Edited on 10/21/2007 3:12:06 PM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
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To: STARWISE

agree with Mitt .. there ARE
3 different categories of
conservatives:

Security
Social
Fiscal

If we could find the candidate who
truly possesses all 3, I think most
of us would be content.

***
That candidate is Duncan Hunter.


1,381 posted on 10/22/2007 8:41:54 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Duncan Hunter in 2008!)
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To: Bigg Red

I also saw one of his posters in Eugene on my way into a Duck game. Bezerkly North as we call it. His total support is a fraud being pushed by HilaryCare with a few willing dupes.

Pray for W and Our Troops


1,382 posted on 10/22/2007 8:42:24 AM PDT by bray (Think "Betray U.S." Think Democrat)
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To: wpa_mikeb

Well that may be so, but what McCain doesn’t know is that the term “Maverick” translates to “can’t be trusted”.

Keating Five
Gang of 14
Kennedy McCain Amnesty Bill
“there will be no wall”


1,383 posted on 10/22/2007 8:43:49 AM PDT by HonestConservative (Stalin wore a pantsuit, too.)
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To: HonestConservative

I saw this posted earlier....have not checked it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914516/posts

I’ll clip the Hunter parts out of what I recorded last night for my YouTube later in the week. I have already posted the after debate interview:

Duncan Hunter at Fox Spin Room 10-21-2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E1u37j_skY


1,384 posted on 10/22/2007 8:44:48 AM PDT by RasterMaster (Rudy McRomneyson = KENNEDY wing of the Republican Party)
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To: Bigg Red; redgirlinabluestate; Saundra Duffy; Canticle_of_Deborah; bethtopaz
I think Mitt got a new hair style because the other was too perfect. Personally, I think it looks better.

I find him quite attractive physically. (Don’t worry, I am a woman.) But I would not vote for him.


Laura Ingram was razzle Mitt that he should get that Fonzie look with leather jacket and windy hair look!

1,385 posted on 10/22/2007 8:45:10 AM PDT by restornu (Improve Each Shining Moment! PRESS FORWARD MITT!)
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To: BCrago66

McCain’s right on the #1 issue: National Security.

***
Well, he’s partly right on national security because he supports the WOT. But national security cannot be truly achieved with porous borders.


1,386 posted on 10/22/2007 8:48:26 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Duncan Hunter in 2008!)
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To: Just mythoughts

“It is very telling that the BIG TENT party’s money is not interested in conservatism but in installing their ticket to self preservation”

http://www.glennbeck.com/news/03212002.shtml

See #15 on that list....


1,387 posted on 10/22/2007 8:48:32 AM PDT by RasterMaster (Rudy McRomneyson = KENNEDY wing of the Republican Party)
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To: STARWISE
Well, maybe the St. Pete Times got it wrong but they reported Jeb was supporting Giuliani, Jeb Jr. too and that George P. was supporting Fred T.

Sunday's paper in a little sidebar. Now I'll ck your you tube url and see which is more reliable.

1,388 posted on 10/22/2007 8:49:27 AM PDT by floriduh voter (Terri Ping List: 8mmmauser & I'm 4 DUNCAN HUNTER & ?????????)
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To: glock rocks

Duncan Hunter would be a magnificent president.

&&
Bears repeating.


1,389 posted on 10/22/2007 8:51:18 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Duncan Hunter in 2008!)
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To: STARWISE

Well, then why is George P. supporting Thompson? George P. embraces illegal immigrants. Why is Fred Thompson (in my concert hall sound selection) booming in my office? LOL I thought it was a Halloween thing from real player at first. Anyway, George P. should explain himself regarding Fred.


1,390 posted on 10/22/2007 8:53:47 AM PDT by floriduh voter (Terri Ping List: 8mmmauser & I'm 4 DUNCAN HUNTER & ?????????)
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To: RasterMaster

So who the hell is your ideal candidate?

You seem to think none of them are worthy of shining your shoes...much less running the country...outside of yourself...who’s smart enough or conservative enough to meet your expert approval?


1,391 posted on 10/22/2007 9:05:17 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Engineer Bn. K.I.A. 25 Apr. 2005)
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To: Guenevere

They’re afraid of somebody who’s not a corporate globalist. They don’t mind selling out America for a buck. Values and integrity be damned.


1,392 posted on 10/22/2007 9:09:52 AM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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To: restornu
Stop reacting to others buzz words and see who is endorsing Mitt, he would not be receiving those endorsements if he did not qualify!

Yea, right. Believe what other self-intersted people tell me and not my lying eyes.

BTW, I have not seen anyone I would term impressive supporting Romney.

1,393 posted on 10/22/2007 9:10:45 AM PDT by Prokopton
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To: Prokopton

I don’t know what you are looking for there are many leading hard core conservative endorsements so it must be something else you are after...


1,394 posted on 10/22/2007 9:14:24 AM PDT by restornu (Improve Each Shining Moment! PRESS FORWARD MITT!)
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Transcript via New York Times

I (or sombody else) will post a better source when available (haven't seen one posted on FoxNews.com yet)

1,395 posted on 10/22/2007 9:37:35 AM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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To: All
Here's a better soure (CFR of all places):
TRANSCRIPT
1,396 posted on 10/22/2007 9:39:19 AM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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CAMERON: Congressman Hunter?

Some pretty sensitive issues: gay marriage, abortion. And Tom Tancredo with the highest rankings. Is he the right conservative? And are these issues that are -- the Republican Party is in danger of not being conservative enough and losing track and losing connection with its principles?

HUNTER: Well, Carl, you've been dividing the party for the last 10 minutes, so let me -- let me say something that I think unites them.

This is a historic venue.

(APPLAUSE)

You know, 300 miles off this coast is a place where another party, once a great party, the Democrat Party, lost its identity. And that's when, in 1961, the Cuban freedom fighters were struggling with a toehold on the beach, trying to take back Cuba from Castro and a Democrat president with an aircraft carrier sitting a few miles offshore said we will not help the freedom fighters.

And a thousand miles away from there is El Salvador, where a Republican president, Ronald Reagan, hung tough, brought freedom to El Salvador.

HUNTER: And you know something? Today, they are fighting side by side with our guys in Iraq.

(APPLAUSE)

We're the party of freedom.

(APPLAUSE)

CAMERON: I'm not so sure I shouldn't get 30 seconds to rebut as to whether I'm dividing their party...

HUNTER: Thanks for the question, Carl.

HUME: Well, thank you very much, Congressman Hunter.

1,397 posted on 10/22/2007 9:54:34 AM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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GOLER: Governor, I think one of the aspects of your plan required individuals to provide their own health insurance, and I think Congressman Hunter wants to talk to you about that.

HUNTER: Yes. Wendell, I think the governor's plan goes in exactly the wrong direction, because while it allows for private health insurance, it has lots of mandates.

He has a good piece of those 1,000 or so mandates that drive up the cost of health care. That means that every single plan in the governor's state has to have certain things.

HUNTER: It's got to have, for example, fertility coverage. Well, what if you're 90 years old? We may appreciate Governor Romney's optimism...

(LAUGHTER)

... but you may not need fertility coverage.

Those 1,000 mandates that we have throughout the States, where we do have mandated health insurance plans, is driving up the cost of health care by about 35 percent. We need freedom. We need to allow people to buy their health care across state lines. That will bring down the cost of health care.

(APPLAUSE)

1,398 posted on 10/22/2007 9:56:14 AM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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HUME: Congressman Hunter?

HUNTER: You know, Brit, one thing we need with this smaller generation that's coming up, that's going to have to carry these massive loads -- economic loads and security loads -- is bigger paychecks.

You take a $75,000-a-year job, and you move it to China, and that guy gets a $20,000-a-year job, the amount of money that he or she contributes to Medicare and Social Security falls off the cliff.

Now, we've lost over 3 million high-paying manufacturing jobs in the last five years because we haven't insisted on a level playing field with out competitors. They all get their taxes rebated to their manufacturers. American manufacturers pay double taxes.

HUNTER: And for that reason, we've got a trade deficit with countries that have higher labor rates than we have.

Now, what we're going to have to do is demand a level playing field. That means that we're going to -- I think we should involve ourselves in what I call mirror trade, and that means that if another country is charging us a 19 percent tariff, we're going to hold up a mirror, and they're going to see it when their goods come into our country.

(APPLAUSE)

HUME: Congressman, do you really...

HUNTER: Leveling the playing field.

(APPLAUSE)

HUME: ... do you really think we can solve the Social Security and Medicare entitlement programs with trade policy?

HUNTER: Let me give you one statistic, Brit. We have a $161 billion deficit this year. We have an $800 billion trade deficit. And that is closely linked with the ability to take care of our seniors, to take care of Medicare, and to pay Social Security, absolutely.

1,399 posted on 10/22/2007 9:57:53 AM PDT by CounterCounterCulture (Hunter / Keyes '08)
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To: CounterCounterCulture

This is the truth.


1,400 posted on 10/22/2007 9:58:16 AM PDT by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter...President '08)
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