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Duncan Hunter Endorses Mike Huckabee
National Review Online ^ | 1-23-08 | Byron York

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
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To: gondramB
"One bad endorsement cancels out his entire life and service?

I just can’t see that."

You have a point. Nevertheless, I suspect Hunter won't make public the real reason or reasons he supports Huckabee. Hunter has shown he has a blind spot in his reasoning.

901 posted on 01/23/2008 3:36:58 PM PST by EverOnward
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To: prairiebreeze

Thanks for the links. I’d like to dig a little deeper... the issue is time. Hey, I was found guilty of I crime I didn’t commit (seriously), so maybe Huckabee can fix that for me. :-)


902 posted on 01/23/2008 3:37:59 PM PST by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: flintsilver7
[...] writing in Alan Keyes will accomplish nothing other than helping the eventual socialist nominee - who, by the way, is 100% guaranteed to be anti-gun and pro-abortion.

Your suggestion, therefore, must be for me to throw my support behind Huckabee? Is that where you are going?

903 posted on 01/23/2008 3:38:47 PM PST by roamer_1 (Conservative always, Republican no more. Keyes '08)
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To: Rock&RollRepublican

He and his cohort Bill Weld appointed judges that forced all 50 states to recognize their homosexual marriages.

Enough said.


904 posted on 01/23/2008 3:38:59 PM PST by jmyrlefuller
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To: djreece
Hunter undoubtedly had a closer look at Huckabee than conservative media commentators who have never met Huckabee or people commenting on a forum who have never bothered to research original sources or take a close look at what Huckabee actually says rather than what others are saying about him.

It speaks volumes that the candidates who have had a chance to get to know one another personally generally like Mike and dislike Mitt, as did the Iowa voters who were able to evaluate candidates face-to-face.

Insightful independent analysis.
Hunter and Huckabee would make a great team!
The two were on the same page throughout the debates.
Hunter and Huckabee both have the same philosophical conservative foundation.

Video: Hunter/Huckabee stand up to Clinton/Corrupt News Network plant/Romney flip-flops on gays in military

905 posted on 01/23/2008 3:39:39 PM PST by FreedomProtector
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To: a77

Vote for McCain.

__________________________________

There is no threat frightening enough...
No nuclear device devestating enough
No torture gruesome enough .....

Senator McCain is a liberal regardless of his party affilation and he will never, never get my vote. I spent countless dollars last June and July phoning Washington fighting his Amnesty Bill, and what does he do, call me and those like me names and now all of a sudden when our votes count dearly in his White House bid, he claims to have seen the light. The bastard is a LIAR!


906 posted on 01/23/2008 3:39:50 PM PST by navymom1 (Freedom is Talk Radio. Fight to Preserve It.)
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To: CindyDawg

I have sort of been given a clue; but nothing solid yet. I think there is something brewing. Checked out both websites and nothing there.


907 posted on 01/23/2008 3:39:59 PM PST by freekitty
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To: silent_jonny

I think it does matter. If people have concerns that you may be liberal on some issues, having a Duncan Hunter, backing you up can reassure people.


908 posted on 01/23/2008 3:40:09 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: silent_jonny

I think it does matter. If people have concerns that you may be liberal on some issues, having a Duncan Hunter, backing you up can reassure people.


909 posted on 01/23/2008 3:40:23 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: silent_jonny

I think it does matter. If people have concerns that you may be liberal on some issues, having a Duncan Hunter, backing you up can reassure people.


910 posted on 01/23/2008 3:40:28 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: freekitty
Didn’t you know. Ann’s a Romney fan.

[BUZZZZZ!] Wrong answer.

Heard her on Bill O'Reilly AND Sean Hannity and the 1st name out of mouth whenever she was asked who SHE supported, it was "Duncan Hunter....".

Maybe because of Hunter's poor polling she eventually ditched him as her 'favorite', but well, I'm not deaf.

911 posted on 01/23/2008 3:40:40 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: NavVet

One is right here, defending him.


912 posted on 01/23/2008 3:41:11 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: TitansAFC; AuntB; pissant; Just A Nobody

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I am so shocked and disappointed that I will
refrain from posting something I might later regret!

913 posted on 01/23/2008 3:41:18 PM PST by jan in Colorado ("It's easier to believe a lie one hears 1,000 times than to believe a fact that one has never heard)
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To: Onerom99

>>His record is far from full fledged conservatism.

The reason there is so much shock here about it is because people were duped into thinking Hunter was a conservative.

He has tons of liberal votes in his record, siding with Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton issues.<<

I don’t know that these are accurate but several sites list Hunters conservative ratings as quite high.

>>ACLU: 7% (indicates very conservative)
American Conservative Union: 92%
Americans for Better Immigration: A+
Americans for Tax Reform: 88.5%
Campaign for Working Families: 100%
Christian Coalition: 100%
Concerned Women for America: 100%
Eagle Forum: 100%
Family Research Council: 100%
Federation for American Immigration Reform: 100%
GodVoters.org: A ** NEW RATING (the ONLY A)
Gun Owners of America: A
NARAL: 0% (indicates a pro-life record)
National Federation of Independent Business: 100%
National Rifle Association: A+
National Right to Life Committee: 100%
National Tax Limitation Committee: A <<


914 posted on 01/23/2008 3:41:20 PM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: DCPatriot

That was a while back. Where have you been?


915 posted on 01/23/2008 3:41:46 PM PST by freekitty
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To: Slapshot68
"I think I just lost all respect for Mr. Hunter."

BINGO!

I never investigated Hunter thoroughly, but was sceptical of that "Only true conservative" crap that was bantered about here. Something always looked odd about that guy. This confirms it. He's not a principled conservative, just a one trick pony.

916 posted on 01/23/2008 3:42:02 PM PST by elfman2 ("As goes Fallujah, so goes central Iraq and so goes the entire country" -Col Coleman, USMC ,4/2004)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
"Reject Mexico’s “matricula consular” card, which functions as an illegal-immigrant identification card."

ROTFLMAO! He went down to Mexico to meet with Fox so that he could bring the Mexican Consulate into Arkansas so the Illegals could get their "matricula consular" card. Not just in Arkansas, but the surrounding States.

He's a shamless piece of work.

sw

917 posted on 01/23/2008 3:42:16 PM PST by spectre (spectre's wife)
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To: freekitty

FR it to me? :’)


918 posted on 01/23/2008 3:42:17 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: roamer_1

No. I don’t like Huckabee and I certainly don’t like McCain. I can vote for Romney because I believe he most represents a conservative of the viable candidates left. I don’t like Giuliani much, but I’d have to take him at his word about nominating strict constructionists.

Here’s the thing - when it comes down to it, the most effect a President can have on social policy is through the Supreme Court selections. These are never a guarantee (Souter, for example) but I am absolutely convinced that if a socialist is elected, all new judges will be Ginsburg clones. With a potentially large gun decision looming, Supreme Court justices are going to be critical.

All my candidates are out of the race, much like you. The point is I’m going to have to bring myself to vote against the socialist.


919 posted on 01/23/2008 3:42:56 PM PST by flintsilver7
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To: TitansAFC

Words fail me.


920 posted on 01/23/2008 3:43:10 PM PST by Valpal1 (OW! My head just exploded!)
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