Posted on 01/14/2008 2:45:59 PM PST by mdittmar
Lest you forget it, Rep. Duncan Hunter of the 52nd Congressional District of California is still running for president. In recent weeks, the Republican congressman's presence in the campaign has all but evaporated. He was barred from appearing at the New Hampshire debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and more recently was excluded from the Fox News debate in South Carolina.
But Hunter is still running for president, even if his campaign appearances have now been reduced to opening acts for the big players still in the game.
Last night, Hunter delivered a pro-family, pro-military stump speech at what appeared—by most measures—to be a campaign rally for Mitt Romney in Taylor, Mich., near Detroit.
Romney, who had been campaigning earlier in the day in upstate Michigan, was late to arrive. The crowd was getting restless. Kids were crawling on the floor, crinkling empty bags of potato chips, and unpeeling Romney bumper stickers and slapping them across their mouths. The press platform became a makeshift jungle gym for the impatient.
The local politicians passed a few minutes showing videos of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, designed to rally the Republican faithful. The videos were simple pastiches, involving spliced video cued up to catch the candidates in a state of double talk. Clinton aroused more indignation than Obama, but the overall reaction was somewhat muted. Then the lights came back on but still no Romney. So they talked about the horrors of the tax increases passed by the state's current Democratic governor, Jennifer Granholm. They talked about taking back control of the statehouse. By this time, around 6 p.m., an hour after the rally had begun, Romney was still missing, but Hunter had conveniently entered from the back of the auditorium, along with two women holding a massive "Duncan Hunter for President 08" banner. They shuffled off to the side wall and stood quietly. A few more local politicians said some additional words. Meanwhile, on stage behind them, a nice scene was unfolding. The American flag, attached by a set of small rings to a lattice of gray poles, was carried from stage right to the center, so it stood behind two rows of otherwise empty chairs. Then the chairs were filled, mostly with healthy-looking kids of various ages. The audience, sensing something was happening, began to perk up. The event coordinator returned to the microphone and started on another introduction. Had Romney arrived?
"This is a man who decided to swim against the tide," she was saying—perhaps a reference to Romney's Mormon missionary work?—"who puts his body where his beliefs are"—a bit more cryptic?—"who went to University of California-Los Angeles"—what?—"And, of course, that man is Duncan Hunter."
Hunter got up, talked about some of the issues at stake, thanked a few people, mentioned his son's bid for Congress, and moved back to the wings. And the local politicians started talking again. Romney showed up around 7:15 p.m.
Thank you for sharing.....buh bye!
>>>more recently was excluded from the Fox News debate in South Carolina. and New Hampster.
I was on the phone with a campaign worker in Massachusetts a couple of hours and the political analysts are actually using the exclusion from the debates as proof that Duncan Hunter dropped out of the primary run. They are such sickening liars it’s nauseating.
Hunter is in the house, Kenedy is in the senate...
>>>It’s too bad liars aren’t removed from civil discussion when it’s habitual and compulsive.
They use to be on this forum.
>>>This isn’t about “Duncan Hunter” any more, it’s about a lot more than any one man.
Duncan Hunter has become the poster boy for conservatives to take back the Republican Party.
OMG!!! The POLLS *spit* say he is losing...he should lay down and die before it is too late!!!
Why bother with elections? We got the POLLS!!! *spit* Let's save our time, energy and money and let the enemedia and the elitists annoint our king so we can bow down and get on with our lives!
Polls can be very unreliable for the following reasons: (by Man50D 11-7-07 )
1. They poll a very small fraction of the population.
2. Pollsters can target a group of people who pollsters know will respond to questions in a certain manner.
3. Questions can be [are] structured for a specific response.
4. Pollsters can disregard answers they deem undesirable
(editing by J.A.N.)
Doesn’t matter what you post. There was a time on FR when that behavior wasn’t tolerated either.
The poll data gathering has gone further than that too now. The source PDFs are always posted. Go read them. They have gone as far as taking poll data that have names not listed and combining them with results with the balance of the names listed to skew the percentages further.
THIS is what they want us to settle for. (New Huck Info!)
19 December 2007
Looking at the Republican field
Cato Institute’s Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors: 2006.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6724
Arkansas
Mike Huckabee, Republican Legislature: Democratic
Final-Term Grade: F
Final Overall Grade: D
Thanks to a final term grade of F, Huckabee earns an overall grade of D for his entire governorship. Like many Republicans, his grades dropped the longer he stayed in office. In his first few years, he fought hard for a sweeping $70 million tax cut package that was the first broad-based tax cut in the state in more than 20 years. He even signed a bill to cut the state’s 6 percent capital gains tax—a significant progrowth accomplishment.
But nine days after being reelected in 2002, he proposed a sales tax increase to cover a budget deficit caused partly by large spending increases that he proposed and approved, including an expansion in Medicare eligibility that Huckabee made a centerpiece of his 1997 agenda. He agreed to a 3 percent income tax “surcharge” and a 25-cent cigarette tax increase. In response to a court order to increase spending on education, Huckabee proposed another sales tax increase. Huckabee wants to run for the GOP presidential nomination next year. He’s already been hailed as a viable big-government conservative candidate by some. That seems about right: Huckabee’s leadership has left taxpayers in Arkansas much worse off.
Apparently the good folks in Arkansas had a rough time of it with Mike Huckabee: Big Government Conservative.
Huckabee was in line with these governors:
Montana Brian Schweitzer (D)* 47 F
Alabama Bob Riley (R) 47 F
Washington Christine Gregoire (D)* 47 F
Arkansas Mike Huckabee (R) 46 F
Nevada Kenny Guinn (R) 46 F
Delaware Ruth Ann Minner (D)* 44 F
North Carolina Michael Easley (D)* 44 F
Arizona Janet Napolitano (D) 43 F
Louisiana Kathleen Blanco (D)* 43 F
Ohio Bob Taft (R) 53 C
Kentucky Ernie Fletcher (R) 53 C
Maryland Robert Ehrlich (R) 53 C
Vermont James Douglas (R) 53 C
Michigan Jennifer Granholm (D) 53 C
http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2007/12/looking-at-republican-field.html
Please point me to the portion of the article that said IT WAS a rally for Mitt. It has been a long day and I may have missed it. Here is what I saw...
Last night, Hunter delivered a pro-family, pro-military stump speech at what appeared—by most measures—to be a campaign rally for Mitt Romney
So tell me Kent from USFrickinNews, what measures did you use to base your rereport? Hmmmmm?? Are you saying DUNCAN HUNTER crashed the gates at a Romney rally? Hmmmmm??? C'mon Kent, inquiring minds want to know!
BTW, how dare DUNCAN HUNTER deliver a pro-family, pro-military stump speech in the United States of America! Damn him!
Any time you want to take the challenge to compare your girl’s record to Hunter’s let me know. If not, STHU.
It is a troll. Signed up in early 2007, had about 3 posts until just a few days ago.
Yeah. I’m not a fan of CATO, but you gotta do better than an F.
Oh and it’s very first post was thread, an article about some old retired GOP congresscritter who got busted exposing himself. Sure sign of a troll.
Still, that nonsense never use to be tolerated.
Yep, a RINO like McLoon would be FReddie's choice. Birds of a feather and all that.
It’s not nonsense to post a guy’s record, but it is if you have no idea what you are talking about and lie on top of it.
Correct. There was a time here at FR where you couldn’t post lies about anyone. The standard practice was to back something up with a link/source. If you couldn’t do it, the admin mod removed the post.
I miss those days.
You are the queen of the back up documentation!!
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