Duncan Hunter soldiers on
Copley News Service follows Duncan Hunter on the campaign trail. Having skipped Iowa and pulling less than 1 percent, he’s soldiering on with a shoestring budget in New Hampshire. I like this quote:
“My motto in politics is never complain,” Hunter said. “My trademark for 26 years has been, ‘Don’t whine. Keep working.’ ”
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A sure sign of a man with good character. And I like most of his positions on the issues. Border fence, support for our military…
Goodness that’s a depressing article. I was hoping his micro-surge after the one hour interview with Glenn Beck would give him some inertia…but, he went right back into obscurity. Then at the Iowa debate he forgot a question and asked Nurse Ratchet to repeat the question, geez louise…with his nil margin for error, that was the last nail in the coffin.
Duncun should have changed his last name to Doughnut. People would recognize that name and he could have been in it.
I’m still pulling for him with Fred Thompson as my second choice.
We CA Republicans have learned “stick to it ‘tiv ness” (-:
We’re always battling uphill.
So funny John!
Good man. Started late. Crowded field with more money. I would move over and let him run my company any day.
I do like his style. He is a class act that would serve us well as our chief executive. Too bad the odds are stacked against him. A true conservative who believes in this country and its sovereignty.
I am leaning towards Thompson too…
I wonder if Tancredo is on anyone’s list as VP… but whoever runs I gotta pull the R lever.
Hunter and Tancredo were my first choices.
I thin Hunter should be considered a strong candidate for VP
Hunter is my first choice.
I find it shameful that Republicans don’t recognize the man who best embodies what conservatism is supposed to be about.
The MSW (Main Stream Web) is as hung up on ditching principles and “picking a winner” as the MSM. Thus we get get lots of babble about the Huckster, McCain, Rudy and Mitt, none of whom is anything but a pitiful compromise candidate.
If people rallied around Hunter, I have no doubt he could be made visible enough to send Shrillery back to Chappaqua with her tail between her pudgy legs.
And then we’d have a president worthy of respect.
But no, the “conservative voices” keep preening and taking their potshots at Ron Paul.
Wouldn’t it be nice — just once — to vote FOR someone instead of against Osama Obama or What’s-her-name?
Do NOT let the media tell you who to vote for!!! Who really cares about the names we keep hearing over and over and over. Vote what is right. Who cares if Hill is the first woman? Obama the first black man? Rudy – the 9/11 Mayor, Romney the Mormon? That doesn’t matter. We need to get back to old fashioned ways….listen to what the candidates are saying and see if their track record backs them up. Vote Hunter ‘08!!!!!!!
I really do like this guy. Him and Fred would make an amazing team.
I have heard Duncan Hunter speak 3 times, and also spent 10 minutes or so in almost on-on-one with him. His stance on national security, economic security and border security are the strongest of any candidate. Fred is a close second. Hunter is the ONLY one talking about terrible “free trade” imbalance because of VAT exemption. 137 countries have a VAT, which is exempted by all trade agreements since 1950’s.
I think a Thompson/Hunter ticket would beat any Dem. candidate.
Maybe he’ll win Wyoming and get some delegates for the convention. He really does represent most of what I believe. It’s too bad that the national campaign is such a crazy animal. It’s not so much the issues, it’s more the perception. But Hunter makes me proud to be an American.
Hunter was my first choice, but realistically, Fred Thompson stands a better chance, so that where my support is.
I wish Duncan would throw his weight behind Fred when he withdraws after New Hampshire.
And no matter who the nominee is Hunter makes an ideal running mate (even McCain and Yuckabee)!
Tancredo, Hunter and Thompson, and now Hunter
and Thompson. Just hope that they are still there when TX votes.
Back on 9/15, along with a number of others from the Gather of Eagles, I spent about 30 minutes chatting with Duncan hunter on the Mall in D.C. Perhaps the cynical think it was a photo op for him yet his son was at that moment deployed and he was the only Member of Congress who showed up there that day.
How do we organize a massive call in to the NRP headquarters demanding a new look at Duncan Hunter!?
WOW – What a shaking up that would give them!
TX Rose #17 – I, too, hope that Hunter and Thompson are still around when TX and CA vote (-:
If there ever was a candidate that deserved a billionaire promoter, Duncan Hunter would be that candidate.
I liked what Rush said today about Duncan Hunter:
Duncan Hunter is a great guy, and he truly is authentic. It’s a mystery why some people don’t get out of the bottom tier or the lower tiers in campaigns. But, remember, this is his first chance, it’s his first time going up in a national audience, and he’s got a future ahead of him if he wants to try to continue to do this. Whatever happens here does not rule him out forever.
Yeah, he may be an asterisk in Iowa but I still have hope for him in New Hampshire. Hopefully he’s still in the race once the campaign swings my way February 12th.
Michael Swartz
http://www.monoblogue.us
Which is the politicallt correct way to say something I’m sure Ranger Hunter used to say a lot: FIDO- F*** It, Drive On.
FIDO, Ranger, FIDO.
From the time Hunter got in, I was saying this is the guy. He’s the one for conservatives. I kept being told he didn’t have a chance, it’s gonna be Fred, or this one or that one. I mentioned Thompson by name only because he wasn’t in the race yet, but the expectations were that high from his supporters. He’s gonna punch the hippies and commies. He’s gonna hit the ground running. I kept trying to plug Hunter. He was already in after all.
After a while I stopped. I didn’t even bother logging in most days because it was just nothing but all everyone else, all the time, while Hunter got no support or media play.
Meh, barring Paul, Chucklebee, and most likely McAmnesty who it looks like has some kind of thing working with Huckabee, I’ll vote for the (R), I suppose. I’ve been doing so since Reagan 1, my first pres. election. Though it just seems like I’m always settling since his second term.
I’m pretty much followed PowWow’s path. Indeed, my first donation of the season went to Hunter.
Unfortunately, when it became clear he wouldn’t move up, I had to move on.
What a nice thread for an awesome man. I hope Duncan wins WY tomorrow.
Duncan should check with the Defense Dept. I don’t think they are using the slogan “An Army of One”
A ‘Hunter/Thompson’ ticket would be my dream… and you would get nostalgic hippies voting for them too in a daze..
Well, Hunter in 2012 maybe?
If thompson gets crowded out… Well who are we conservvatives supposed to get fired up for?
We end up with losers.
McCain loses because he can’t hold the normnal states and doesnt really add any – plus is weak as hell on immigration and a few other place.
Huckabee who would lose in a landslide of McGovern proportions because if he is exampined closely, no thinking conservative can bear to vote for him.
Romney who is just the latest establishment plastic manufactured candidate, and it shows – and he will ose because he takes too many issues off the table with his flip-flops.
Guiliani? Sorry. One liberal is the same as the other for the most part. Conservatives will sit at home in larger numbers than with any other candidate if Giuliani is the nominee.
So Hunter is the guy who can make Hillary or Obama a one term president.
Duncan, pull in your reins – and start laying in the groundwork for 2012.
Hunter/Steele in 2012.