Hunter endorses Huck…heads explode
Strange bedfellows
California Rep. Duncan Hunter, a former presidential candidate, announced Wednesday he is endorsing Mike Huckabee’s White House bid.
“I got to know Governor Huckabee well on the campaign trail,” Huckabee said in a statement. “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,” he added. “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.”
Maybe Huck promised him a Cabinet position. Nothing else makes sense.
Disbelief at the Free Republic. This reaction sums it up: “Is this from the Onion?”
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Let’s review:
Duncan Hunter - Keep Guantanamo Bay open
Mike Huckabee - Close Gitmo
Duncan Hunter - Staunch border security advocate
Mike Huckabee - Open-borders ethno-panderer
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Allah: “Mr. Border Fence is backing a guy who accused opponents of Bush’s immigration plan of nativism? Two days after Fred drops out because he can’t pull enough conservatives to beat John McCain? Dude?”
Byron York: “The endorsement of Huckabee just doesn’t seem to fit, given Hunter’s national-security orientation, concern about China, all that. I thought it seemed so odd that, when I got the email a few minutes ago, I called Hunter’s spokesman to make sure it was right. It’s not huge news – Hunter got all of 1,048 votes in the South Carolina – but a number of conservatives who paid close attention to the race liked Hunter, and they usually weren’t the sort to support Huckabee.”
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I think I can imagine that, twotips. Here in Wisconsin, the fact that we will continue to be a tax hell with no relief in sight can be at least somewhat-fairly laid on the head of one RINO, then-Senate Majority “Leader” Mary Panzer, who refused to bring the first version of TABOR for a vote in the Senate in 2004. That move was so egregious, she drew a primary challenger in 10 days (fortunately, she was also too stupid to wait until after the filing period had expired to table TABOR), and was ousted by a 80%-20% margin in the primary.
Of course, there are also a few other RINOs I have to keep on “thanking” for no significant action on the renamed Taxpayer Protection Amendment in the succeeding session of the Legislature (Dale Schultz and John Gard come immediately to mind), but even if there had been a consensus action then, the seizure of the State Senate by the ‘Rats in 2006 would have doomed the second consideration required to send the amendment to us voters for constitutional ratification.
As Michelle herself occasionally says, “You’ve got to keep up.”
Look this isn’t meant for you personally, but would everyone who thinks he would support Romney please Google “Romney+Bain+3Com”? Or Romney and Huawei Technology?
He should have probably endorsed no one, but he has reasons for not wanting Romney.
mngirl
Via Wikipedia;
I don’t see anything here.
Romney was not involved in the 3Com deal, surely.
I did. What does this have to do with Romney? He no longer runs Bain.
He gets a reported $7-15 million a year from his stock in Bain. Some of that money came from selling 3Com to a Chinese company that helped build missile defense systems for Saddam and the Taliban. Not a problem? I can see someone’s judgement vis-a-vis China being influenced by $7 million dollars, but maybe he’s above all that.
Well, well, if it isn’t my old pal Flenser, who still hasn’t kept his promise to answer a question from 4 months ago after leading me down a merry road first.
For the record, everyone, the only one Flenser has supported while basing all the Republican front runners is Hillary Clinton, the other day when he said he’d vote for Hillary over McCain (McCain would be terrible, but who but a liberal shill would make such a remark?). Now there’s a real conservative for you, eh?
You’ve been bashing front runners for 6 months now, Flenser, so let me ask you this: for all the negative conservative bashing you’ve done here, just who do you support, Flenser?
Saw your previous reference to Tiger Song and found this report.
We apparently part of the technology to China before they sold it to Iraq!!
How many traitors do we have in this country??? LOTS!
From the report, one is Prof. John Lewis from my alma mater. In addition to Perry, Clinton, et al.
Thanks Fred, I hadn’t found that link. (You Stanford guys are good reseachers
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Yes, unfortunately many in this country put a buck ahead of national security. The 3Com equipment that is supposed to keep hackers out of our national defense computer networks could easily be modified by their new Chinese owners so that our defense secrets are relayed to China. Hunter asked Romney to use his influence to try and prevent that deal and Romney refused. And then Romney profited financially from the deal.
Forgetting Romney for just a second, how is this stuff getting past our supposed WOT-oriented administration??
What the hell is going on here??
Alohaguy:
I’m with you on the whole Huawei deal looking ugly. But I think you are placing blame on the wrong head. Where is the DoD, the Commerce Secretary and the appropriate committees in Congress, as well as individual Congress(wo)men, the President? Whomever is the appropriate watchdog group.
How do you know that Duncan Hunter doesn’t have a good portion of his government pension fund invested in a mutual fund that owns stock in 3Com? Should the media have gone to him to ask for a statement on the Bain deal? Or isn’t invested in mutual funds that own stock in companies that do business with Huawei? Gasp! Shock? Horror! Oh no, what will we do? Shall we fire all of Congress? (well, yes, but that’s another topic)
Do we look at the investors, or do we look to the Government to DO THEIR (insert expletive) JOB, and not allow our technology to be given away like it was during the Clinton years?
This deal is a tiny component of what generates Romney’s income from Bain and he doesn’t have decision making authority over Bain’s decisions. Its not Romney’s job to make the people in Washington DO THEIR JOB.
Welcome to the Twilight Zone.
Things are NOT looking up for the general election. Unfortunately, unlike the lefties, we have nowhere to go while they mess up the country for the next 4 years.
It reminds me of The Matrix. Are most people so content with government handouts that they’ll stay in their little cocoons and live in a virtual world while the few free and brave battle for the freedom to live their own lives?
I didn’t want much from a candidate, just the desire to win against our enemies, a secure border, and government hands OUT of my pocket.
Even my parent are pessimistic about the future for their grandchildren, and they’ve seen quite a few presidents come and go.
AlohaGuy you are so full of crap! You did all that research but very conveniently leave out that Romney’s interest in Bain is held in a blind trust. He has no influence and in fact if he were to have tried to influence the deal that would have been illegal. You also very conveniently forget to mention that the U.S. government approved the deal. Go blow smoke up someone else’s rearend buddy.
I guess that I really am concerned about “settling” for the closest thing to a conservative with my vote. I think that is just what they want us sheep to do. They (GOP) know they have us over a barrel. Either stay home or vote for next best. We deserve better than that. Why don’t we have anyone to vote for that REALLY represents us? Maybe a “conservative” party will evolve from this mess were in. I sure hope it happens before we lose all of our voting power to the hispanics. We are there now in Texas.
Hmmmm? Smells of a possible appointment to me.
Nothing else makes sense, considering how diametrically opposed they seemed to be on issues.
I’ll be meeting with Hunter this Friday at an event in the Palm Beach area. I’ll be asking him some hard questions, you can count on that. And if you have any questions you’d like me to ask him, leave me a comment at The Radio Patriot. I’ll have his ear. You can bet I’ll be chewing on it.
Just last week in a radio interview with Col. Buzz Patterson, he told me he thinks Duncan Hunter “hangs the moon”. I contacted Buzz just now to get his reaction to Hunter’s endorsement of Huckabee…
Remember when we all though Tancredo was insane for endorsing Mitt? Well this takes the cake. In fact, this makes Tancredo look like a man on a mountain.
Blind as in “See no evil?” Sorry to dis your boy, but I’m interested in what all the candidates are about. Yes, the government approved the deal, and no, I don’t think they should have.
And yes, I think his financial interests might influence his decisions.
And no, I’m not blowing smoke up your butt, I’m stating my case, and providing links and Google suggestions so that everyone can look and decide for themselves.
If you are a conservative - you’re here are on this blog - please explain to me why we should be selling our defense technology to China, and how that is part of the conservative agenda.
Your boy also believes in mandatory health care, and please explain how mandatory government anything is part of the conservative agenda.
Well the circuit breakers in my little pointed brain need to be reset now. All that keeps going through my mind is “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” over and over. My wife keeps saying “what the hell!”
We are really disgusted and rapidly approaching down right pissed!
And no, I’m not trying to hijack the thread. I’m puzzled over Hunter’s endorsement too, but understand why he didn’t give it to Romney.
I like that. But, why limit it to just 2008? It rings so true most election years.
And Hunter knew or should have known this when he attempted to get Romney to commit an illegal act. Does not say much about Hunter’s ethics. And perhaps that explains Hunter’s attraction to Huckabee.
AlohaGuy - Lets put your smear tactics to bed.
From the WSJ: the part of 3Com that does business with the U.S. government is called TippingPoint Technologies. It is a maker of network security gear 3Com picked up in a roughly $400 million deal in 2005. Before it agreed to be bought by the Bain crowd, 3Com indicated it would split off TippingPoint in an initial public offering.
A person familiar with the matter said that after 3Com shareholders vote on the LBO, likely in January, a formal process to sell TippingPoint or conduct an IPO will begin, and that should go a long way toward calming any national-security fears.
End of story? Romney’s interest in Bain is in a blind trust and he has nothing to do with it. The deal must still be approved by the treasury and us intelligence.
Smear tactics?
Guess that you haven’t read my previous comments. Just expressing my grief at the choice of remaining GOP candidates. As a matter of fact, I did support Tancredo, then Thompson. I don’t believe that I can trust any of the remaining candidates. That’s all. I must be way out in Right Field.
I am sickened by Hunter’s endorsement of The Huckster. This surely points to not taking endorsements seriously. We think we know these candidates, but yet we don’t. I’m convinced there are deals, side-deals, and promises for later reward we’d not ever condone. I’ve worked on committees and knew that some of the people running the show had secrets or something they were just not going to share with us lowly ones. The next person I hear claim to have any legacy to Ronald Reagan, I’ll personally throw up in his rubber chicken dinner! Wake me when this madness is over. Honesty is a lame duck in these times.
When you claim to have done the research and post partial facts thats a smear. When you say Romney “personally profited from investments that involved selling a maker of national defense technology to a Chinese company that supported Saddam and the Taliban.” that is an outright lie.
Here is the link mentioned in my earlier post: http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2007/12/03/some-soothing-words-for-3com-arbs/
You are a fool to think you could come to a site like MM and put one over on the smart well informed people here.
(Yeah, partial quote.)
Who said that? Romney when he was attacking Kennedy. Romney can tell his trustee to stay away from investments in China, since as President he might have to make some very tough decisions on China.
Since no one has said it yet…
Duncabee!
I was a Hunter supporter as well. While I don’t agree with the endorsement, I can see a little logic behind what may be for him as it is like the rest of us, a decision based on the least of all evils.
Where Hunter says “character” I read it to mean social issues, a place he and Huckabee have quite a bit in common. And regardless of the facts in the case, the Bain Capital/3Com deal seems to be a major stumbling block between Duncan Hunter and Mitt Romney on a personal level.
Just because Hunter may have went against type in his endorsement doesn’t mean his positions on other issues or those things he works for in Congress aren’t valid. I’m not throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Judging by this reaction though, if Fred Thompson endorses John McCain (as he did in 2000) we may have full-scale mutiny on our hands.
Michael Swartz
http://www.monoblogue.us
One Last Time for AlohaGuy:
One would think that by knowing what’s in his blind trust, through newspaper reports or other means, any public official would be able to steer contracts to those companies.
Buddy, it’s a blind trust. The whole point is that Romney doesn’t know where his money is being invested. If you want to hold him responsible for investments set up in a manner specifically so he has no control over them, you might as well blame him for the weather, too.
Romney’s spokesman, Kevin Madden, confirms that all investment decisions were made by the trustee and the appropriate investment professional, and that Romney has been prohibited from discussing what to invest in with that trustee.
http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2007/08/romneys_blind_trust.html
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I like it.
Take it and make it yours.
Since he has asked his advisers to bring his investments into line with his beliefs - as in stem-cell research - that’s fine. Nevertheless, I am not so naive that I think his trustee will unload all of his Bain stock, nor do I think Romney himself will think he no longer owns any.
I still see it as a problem, and I think everyone here needs to decide for themselves.
Thank you for calling me a liar, you say more about yourself in so doing than you do about me.
Dana Rohrbacher endorsed Mitt Romney.
who do we expect him to have supported?
i don’t understand the shock.
Don’t forget, Hunter’s kid is running for congress this cycle. I wonder if this will damage him too?
Duncan Hunter said something in October ‘07 that threw me for a loop - that I absolutely thought, I CANNOT VOTE FOR THIS MAN over this ONE SINGLE ISSUE! HOW can that be? Border Security, Military supporter, endorsed by Chuck Yeager…???
I was so stunned, I didn’t have the heart to cut and paste it and put it in my file on him.
Two weeks later, I couldn’t find it ANYWHERE AT ALL on the internet! As if it NEVER HAPPENED - AND I DO NOT REMEBMER WHAT IT WAS!
But it sure stunned me! - like when I saw Newt laughing at Sean Hannity in the Fall of ‘06 over the PRAGMATISM of open borders as he sat in TOTAL AGREEMENT with Alan Colmes, to Alan’s total befuddlement!!!
NOW THIS!
PURE BALDERDASH!
Huckleberry is as screwed on Biblical theology as if The Good Samaritan had gone and left the robbery victim DYING IN THE ROAD and gone chasing after the entire ROBBER DEN to bless them with prosperity FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES AND MANY GENERATIONS TO COME - as a fine example of “CHRISTIAN CHARITY”.
I’ll never support Duncan Hunter for ANYTHING ever again - EVER!
I live too close to the Mexico border, where one of our main stories today is how the border bandit coyotes are now using small children as HUMAN SHIELDS.
I’m fed up with these guys who think they can give us their best HALF the time and do any excremental thing to us they want to the rest of the time.
Like if they spend HALF their time drilling holes in the hull of the ship in the middle of the Atlantic - and one quarter of their time pushing CORKS into the holes they drilled, and another part of their time throwing all the cork they can find overboard.
God save us from the like!
Some of these candidates who have dropped out - it does NOT mark the death of the political philosophy they waved their own flags for - but rather that they were not believeable supporters and proponents of those values.
I.e., I’d love to have a Christian Conservative to support - I HAVE NOT FOUND ONE IN THE GOP RACE.
Straight-talker McCain? Biggest liar in the GOP party.
Huckabee-former Baptist Preacher, Christian? Reminds us of those guys who hang a Christian fish outside their business and the folks discover that he is a CROOK. OPEN BORDERS out of TAXPAYERS’ POCKETS?????? Stuff him!!!
Etc., etc., etc.
Mitt is the only one left I’ll CONSIDER voting for, now, since Duncan pulled this - was thinking of voting for Duncan as a Write-In. SHELVE THAT STUPID IDEA, RIGHT NOW!
I’ll have to see what Mitt does between now and November, but I have a nice list of Write-In’s ready - Michelle, Malkin, Ann Coulter, Oliver North, Franklin Graham…. etc etc, etc - they will not fail me!
They’ll sure get my message across!
We already KNOW what Jesus would do - the devil did offer Jesus ALL the nations of the entire world, and Jesus did NOT sell himself, even to the highest bidder. Jesus always stood by His Word, and His integrity, and His Covenant.
Huckabee has sold out his own nation to the Illegal Aliens - and for what!
And telling folks they cannot have medical attention if they smoke or eat more than HE says they can, or things HE says they cannot have?
I have an idea what George Washington and Paul Revere would have done to him, if they could get to him before Patrick Henry and Nathan Hale, and a few others.
I agree and I hope it is NOT partly my fault - with so many GOP candidates, I have been praying fervently for God to SHOW US THE “TARES” (wheat-imitating WEEDS) and REMOVE THEM before we have to decide.
Huckabee, McCain, Fred, and Duncan are sure showing us something they don’t want us to know about THEM.
YES, FRED HEADS! The man who managed McCain’s 2000 Presidential Campaign and kept Bill and Hillary out of JAIL when HE chaired the Senate Committee to investigate Chinese donations to their campaign funds, ETC ETC ETC ETC - appointed to the position BECAUSE HE WAS A FORMER WATERGATE PROSECUTOR who should have done a good job of it!
INSTEAD, Fred had OTHER goals in mind - showing America the GOP was JUST AS BAD, deflecting and destroying the work of the committee towards their ASSIGNMENT.
THAT will be a very very sad thing to watch. So many of them think Fred is NOT McCain! Just because he plays a decent fellow on TV.
You think they would let Dr. Marcus Welby, MD operate on their brains???
Maybe Huckabee has been born again to Jesus, maybe to Satan, maybe back again to Jesus. Candidates have to have many faces today.
(Should have said, “Fred McCain, Deux”)
Yeah, I for one would LOVE to know to whom Huckleberry was “born again” unto.
If he THINKS it was Jesus, he skipped the part about Jesus telling Tax gatherers to RESTORE TO THE CITIZENS WHAT THEY STOLE FROM THEM with the ABUSE of their authority - FOUR TO SEVEN, even 100 FOLD.
Huckleberry seems to have let THAT bit of Scripture, straight from Jesus’ mouth, slide right by him!
I don’t think he got any tenets about being a powermongering micromanager from Jesus, either.
I got polled last night. Democrat poll only asking if I would vote for John McCain against Hillary or Obama. Very suspicious limitation of choices.
It’s always a good day when narrow minds are pried open by the unpredictable course of human events.
To quote Barack Obama ” Ronald Reagan set America on a fundamentally different course. That is not conservatisms. Conservatism is maintaining the status quo i.e. President Eisenhower. Huck’s fair-tax plan is possibly the most revolutionary idea since the Boston Tea Party. The others are all just alike I guess you could them them either twiddle-dem or twiddle-neocon.
What’s up ith Jeff Sessins? Fox cut him short. He has a questionaire for candidates on illegal immigration. I may move to Alabama.(I’ll get over it when the four inches of ice in my yard disappear).
First thing that crossed my mind was… “Hmmmmm…. HuckPuck HAD to entice him with something!!! V.P.???”
OT - one more since I’ve been called a liar for saying Romney still makes money off Bain. He has a severance package that runs into 2009. He knows what that package is, and there is nothing “blind” about it. He no longer controls Bain, but he does get money from them.
From the Washington Post August 14, 2007:
“The documents released yesterday, which require candidates to disclose only ranges of assets and earnings, show that Romney retained a lucrative “passive” investor relationship with Bain after he left the firm. Under a severance deal that runs through Feb. 11, 2009, Romney must abide by various “non-compete, non-hire and confidentiality obligations,” and in return he retains a “passive profit share as a retired partner,” the documents state.
The arrangement allowed Romney to collect between $7.1 million and $15.5 million in dividends, interest and capital gains from Bain entities in 2006 and early 2007 alone. Advisers sought to distance Romney from his investments in Bain and other entities — such as numerous foreign companies and funds — by emphasizing that the candidate has had no control over his financial assets since he placed them in the blind trust on Jan. 1, 2003.”
On January 23rd, 2008 at 4:02 pm, mngirl said:
You mean: Rudy’s the only thing resembling sanity left.
Rudy is the only one who hasn’t flip-flopped on an important issue. I started off wanting Hunter, then Fred, and they’re both gone. Rudy was my number 3 because McCain is totally unacceptable, and Romney is unelectable. He has been losing in all the head-to-head polls against either Hillary or Obama from day one.
I’ve taken all the Advil the label says I can take without killing myself. I’m onto Tylenol now, but it’s not working either.
Sessions 15 questions for the candidates can be found at:http://sessions.senate.gov/forms/Real_Immigration_Reform_Roadmap.pdf
GOD YES! At last someone here gets the whole picture from start to finish! Keep saying it over and over, everywhere you go! (Mitt has been my number 2 guy, but even the pundits on the right are starting to see Mitt doesn’t have the kind of dirty fighting style you need to win against the titanic Clinton Machine)
The MSM want to see Huckabee or McCain get the nomination because they would be easy to defeat. I hope Romney would win if he got the nomination, but I’m much more certain Rudy will.
BET THE FARM ON IT!
hehehehehhe
I will sit back and watch your ship sink to the bottom of the Marianna Trench.
Just Like I did with Robert Dole, H. Ross Perot, and Gerald Ford.
I will not vote for McCain, or Ruby, or Huckleberry, nor a single one of those who have already dropped out.
I might vote for Mitt, I do not know.
Otherwise, it will be Michelle, or Ann Coulter, or Franklin Graham, or Oliver North…
I’ll be worlds’ polite and NOT tell you how strongly I feel about THAT.
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