Posted on 01/23/2008 12:29:02 PM PST by TitansAFC
This was a surprise. From the Hunter statement:
"I got to know Governor Huckabee well on the campaign trail," said Hunter. "Of the remaining candidates I feel that he is strongly committed to strengthening national defense, constructing the border fence and meeting the challenge of China's emergence as a military superpower that is taking large portions of America‚s industrial base."
"Along with these issues of national security, border enforcement and protecting the U.S. industrial base, I see another quality of Mike Huckabee's candidacy that compels my endorsement. Mike Huckabee is a man of outstanding character and integrity. I saw that character over the last year of campaigning and was greatly impressed. The other Republican candidates have many strengths and I wish them all well. My personal choice is Mike Huckabee," Hunter concluded.
good thing no one offered ...
Bobby Jindal?
even if I agreed with Paul on every issue I’d have to say he’s pretty kooky and wacky and doesn’t belong in the white house.
I’m not kooky, I agree with everything I say on every issue and I don’t belong in the White House!
I can’t imagine Fred doing so, after how much he attacked Huckabee during his campaign.
In the list of unlikely things to happen, I’d be less surprised if Fred endorsed Romney than Fred endorsing Huckabee.
No. He won’t. Nor McCain, I believe. I don’t think he’ll endorse anyone.
If you blinked, you missed it. The MSM surely isn’t talking about Bork’s endorsement.
He is corrupted politically though. He does whatever the establishments wants ALWAYS. He votes to confiscate money from the folks in the form of property taxes and he redistributes it to the establishment for their projects.
Hunter does the same thing. They are both corrupt.
But ... yes. The forces of evil are messing with our minds, our election, and our great republic.
The greens have wrought more damage to this nation than they imagined, forcing us to stop expanding our own oil or nuclear energy supplies since the 1970's, causing trillions of dollars to be funneled into the hands of our enemies.
The socialists, with their damage to our industry via high medical costs, high minimum wages, high taxes, high legal expenses, and high regulatory compliance, all forcing jobs overseas, have done their part as well, swelling the Chinese banks with U.S. dollars.
And with friends like our own federal bureaucracies and the main stream media, who needs the best funded enemies in human history?
It's a pretty ugly pickle we've got ourselves into.
this should help you some if you are a true conservative:
The Real Scoop on Mitt Romney, The Fake Conservative
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c3xJdFbJGw
Catch up y’all, it’s a CFR election... period.
No. It looks like you only agreed 50%.
Let’s see...to be ideologically consistent, Duncan Hunter would have had to endorse NOBODY.
And those of us who are doing that here, getting behind nobody after losing Hunter or after losing Thompson, are reviled as traitors who are throwing the election to Hillary.
So it’s wrong of Hunter to get behind Huckabee but I should dump everything that I believe in and throw in with Romney.
My .02 is that if you have principles you don’t endorse those who oppose them. At gunpoint maybe you do what you have to, but that’s in November.
This is a shock....you sure this isn’t Scrappleface?? LOL
I think I’ve pretty much lost all respect for all the candidates at this point....of course, I didn’t have any for many of them to begin with.
Happy dance yeehaw
Bush was thought to be weak on national security as well when he was first running. As far as gitmo goes it has become more of a political slogan than anything else these days. The courts have ruled that the same rules apply to it as to anywhere else so there isn’t a lot of reason other than pride to keep it open as opposed to relocating detainees to other less public locations.
If only there were a Co-President deal with Paul the domestic issues Co-President and McPain the foreign policy issues Co-President . . . two of the most reviled GOP candidates at FR could become its most beloved . . . .
Jimmy Carter was a ‘good guy’, too.
Huckabee doesn’t have enough realpolitik in him to be worth a bucket of warm spit when it comes to foreign policy (same as the other ‘good guy’ cited above), and is a tax-and-spend liberal with the quirk (for a liberal) of being pro-life.
I just hope Fred keeps my respect and either endorses no one, or endorses Romney (or maybe Guiliani) is such a way as to make clear he’s only endorsing what in his judgement is the least of four evils.
So Duncan Hunter is saying that even though Huckabee has been pro-illegal immigrant in a variety of ways, the same Mike Huckabee that signed "The Pledge" a DAY BEFORE the SC Primary, Huckabee would construct the border fence? Whatever. I have no other way to look at this as anything but a petty act focused towards amnesty McCain (rightfully) and strong borders Romney (wrongly). I've lost all respect and will now just allow him to fall back into obscurity.
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