Nobody knew who Bill Clinton was. Nobody knew who Jimmy Carter was.
Getting known is the result of getting exposure. With the right organization anyone can become well known, especially now with the internet.
Hunter’s message is powerful and right on target. His failing was not getting out front of the MSM and party elite by going around them.
Now, that may be because he was never in it to win or because of some other reason. I don’t know.
I do know he did a pi$$ poor job of getting his name and message out.
“Nobody knew who Bill Clinton was. Nobody knew who Jimmy Carter was.”
People did know who they were, both of those men were governors, and they lined up their ducks and donors before committing.
A governor is at the top of the heap in his state politically, always with varying degrees of recognition on a national scale, depending on the size and importance of the state, but it is always something.
The biggest difference is that it takes something to win the governors seat that it doesn’t always take to win in many congressional seats.
Even the smallest governor has some celebrity, not something that all of the hundreds of congressman can claim or attain.
Hunter is probably disappointed that he can’t break 1%, he is human after all, and after more than a quarter century as a politician it has to sting a little, it bothers me a little, but it is what it is, we have an election at risk and we have to move on.