Dunno. I’m still confused and bemused by his endorsement of Huckabee...but as I said, he knows and understands his reasons for doing it better than I ever could.
Duncan is a Baptist, number one. Number, two he was the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. These guys push their own little special interests, sometimes. Perhaps everyone should be taking a close look at this guy. He may have inadvertently opened Pandora’s box.
Here’s some interesting info on Hunter:
According to the July 2007 edition of Pacific Flyer, Hunter and Cunningham had pressured the Department of Defense to “...advise DARPA to put an immediate halt to bureaucratic delays and get on with the DuPont Aerospace DP-2 testing.” The DP-2 is a Vertical Take-Off and Landing, or VTOL, aircraft designed by DuPont Aerospace to transport special operations forces, but has been repeatedly rejected by the Navy, Army, Air Force, NASA, and DARPA. The design, of which all four constructed models have crashed, has had $63 million appropriated to it since 1991, not including a suggested $6 million for fiscal year 2008. Despite the rejections and reports by multiple military and civilian experts that the aircraft will not fly or hover and will incinerate Special Operations forces rapelling out of the aircraft, Hunter has allegedly repeatedly added funding for the DP-2 in “earmarks” and defended the aircraft in recent testimony to the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology. Hunter has received $36,000 in donations from DuPont Aerospace.[29] According to his testimony before Congress [3], Hunter compares the lack of success of the DP-2 to the trials of perfecting the V-22 Osprey. He alleges that such long-term testing is necessary to keep American forces equipped with the best technology.