Posted on 01/05/2008 10:05:34 AM PST by AuntB
Iowa was barely over caucusing when USA Today Editors decided they knew better than Republicans in the other 49 states and better than the not yet chosen delegates to the 2008 Republican Party National Convention, who is worthy to continue the race for the Republican Party Presidential Nomination. My question for the USA Today Editors is, who in the name of democracy made you the politburo?
Click link to read the USA Today Editorial Iowa results hold lessons for the long road ahead
Note: The remainder of this post is a re-write of my comments to the Editors of USA Today Editorial.
Regarding the Editor's dictum that "...it's long past time for Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., to depart the scene", I beg to differ and am reminded of the words of Mark Twain: "The report of my death is an exaggeration."
On the contrary, Huckabee is the one that may be living on borrowed time. Consider for instance Bruce Walker’s American Thinker article, "Mike Huckabee and Christian Duty". I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Walker on the total unacceptability of Huckabee’s call for Christian-State-Socialism (my term, not Walker’s).
That read reinforces my conviction that Duncan Hunter is the right man for the job. He will empower private industry, not expand government. He is the only candidate that understands and has articulated in clear and salient detail the economic and military threat to the US posed by China. He does not throw up his hands about the threat, but has proposed a viable solution to it—(1) Fair Trade in place of [un]Free Trade, and (2) empowering our manufacturing base (by fixing the trade [in]equity problem and also by tax relief targeted at manufacturers, thereby creating JOBS) so as to keep our economy and military strong.
Duncan is also unwaveringly pro-life (at both ends of life) and has remained solidly against illegal immigration since before such a stance became fashionable. He built the fence on the border in San Diego, and it works. He thus has a proven track record of protecting our borders against illegal entrance of “immigrants” (many hardened criminal and some terrorist—a few perhaps with WMD’s) who do not respect us or our law enough to obey it like desirable foreign visitors and immigrants have been willing to do throughout the life of our great nation.
I have met Duncan Hunter and can attest that he is presidential in intellect, articulation, appearance, and persona (and he can properly pronounce “nuclear”, thus. nü-klē-ər). Texas Republicans chose him over all the other candidates at the 2007 Republican Party of Texas Straw Poll event last August. I voted for him in that event. I am currently planning to vote fore him on March 4, 2008.
Please take a good look at Duncan Hunter for President. He plans to do his Christian duty to protect our way of life and our right to exercise our Judeo-Christian duties freely, using the means by which God prospers us through our Judeo-Christian faith, a Free Trade domestic economy, and Fair Trade based international trade system where we are not forced to redistribute those means either by unFree Trade or by government managed socialism.
Huckabee’s platform also endorses fair trade. Unless Hunter stands a chance of making it into the top four in my state, I’d rather vote for Huckabee.
Hunter has a perfect platform but has done a terrible job of selling it.
Hunter needs to give it up already.
“Hunter has a perfect platform but has done a terrible job of selling it.”
Hunter, unlike ALL the other candidates is still doing his job every day for YOU. And no, that doesn’t get him where he needs to be, but at least there is ONE man in government we can count on to do his job.
these two are MY top tier candidates.........usa today can go pound sand
Huckabee is for illegal aliens and amnesty. This is selling out our country. He is also soft on crime. If Ann Coulter had made even one of his many recent gaffes, MSM would have gone into a frenzy.
Sing it, sister!!
Jackie Mason’s Vlog on Fred Thompson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0KPgWzUm5s
Hunter and Thompson tied for second in Wyoming—with one committed delegate and an alternate, each.
This is all staged folks.
If you wanted a RINO from the start, this is your year, I would say things are going along as planned.
For Pete sakes, polls are just that, numbers out of the air. DELEGATES are REAL PEOPLE committed to a candidate going to the National Convention.
And in THAT race, as of yesterday, DUNCAN HUNTER IS NOW THIRD IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE ON THE G.O.P. SIDE.
Enough of this talk of "quitting" to make way for the stampeding RINOS.
That figures. Coming from somebody naive on trade issues. i.e. Win-Lose. (They win, US loses). I can appreciate your disdain of Congressman Hunter. I have looked it up in your posting history.
Poor Fredheads left to desperately having to manipulate people into voting for Fred as ‘electable’ when he has LOST support and people really haven’t liked what they’ve seen. So we are supposed to ‘settle’ for less and a man who doesn’t deserve to be made out as a savior to conservatives. He’s a joke and so are his sad supporters who continue on this charade.
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Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz Report:
Brought to you by Duncan Hunter:
Congress has spent more than $63 million on an experimental aircraft that has never flown more than a few feet and that the Pentagon has repeatedly rejected.
Designed as a plane that can take off straight up and then fly at 700 miles per hour, the craft has never attained a height of more than a few feet in prototype tests before crashing to the ground.
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