Posted on 11/15/2010 10:37:20 AM PST by Josh Painter
I need an Advil...
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Maybe Huck promised him a Cabinet position. Nothing else makes sense.
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
I don’t like the Huckster all that much. Has Hunter not heard of a guy named Jim DeMint?
This article is from 2008. No doubt to tick off pissant.
The lesser evil endorsement? I seem to recall it being down to McCain, Romney, and Huckabee at that point.
LOL. I guess he could have picked an even less conservative toad like ROmney or McCain.
LOL.
I’m listening to Rush.
“Flashback” - game on?
I can go dig up my old stuff about teapot museums and House attendance records if need be.
LOL!
It may be an old article, but the fact that Hunter would even consider endorsing a RINO says much to me. I had initially supported Hunter, but after discovering his pandering to labor unions (in other words, organized crime), I withdrew my vote.
I can’t blame anyone for their GOP choices in 2008. Kind of depended which poison will make my death quicker and cause the smallest amount of pain.
His pandering to labor unions? Must be why he had a 17% rating from the AFL-CIO and far worse from the public employee unions. Did you just pull that out of your arse?
Please do. Be sure to compare that attendance with McCain, Tanc, and Brownback while they were running.
It was okay anyway. If anyone wanted to know where Duncan Hunter was, all they had to do was propose a $1B earmark to ‘study the whereabouts of Duncan Hunter’ and he’d surely pop up to vote for it. :p
pissant,
Are you going to go on one of your typical “I hate you because you disagree with my socio/political position!” tirades?
I gathered that little ditty from his presidential website.
Incidentially, just because he received a 17% from AFL-CIO doesn’t mean he didn’t support the labor unions. The tiny little detail you’re failing to remember is that the rating depends on whom the AFL-CIO is backing. If Hunter is being compared to a candidate whom leans farther Left, you should easily see why they would give Hunter a less than favorable rating.
Wasn’t he a member of the Centrist Coalition throughout his tenure too? You know, the group with Snowe, McCain, Jeffords et al?
BTW, the fact that the AFL-CIO give Hunter a 17% rating should tell you something.
Those are longstading ratings, unrelated to his 2008 campaign.
And no, he didn’t praise unions on his website.
Yes, he did, which is why I withdrew my support for Hunter.
You would think that the labor unions would seek to give him a Fail rating, but they didn’t.
So you agree that who people are supporting in the past is important.
Not that April is really “in the past”. Or that supporting a person in a position who could be replaced is the same as throwing your endorsement to one of a small number of candidates left in a race.
I would compare Hunter’s endorsement of Huckabee in 2008 with Palin’s endorsement of John McCain this year, or Palin’s endorsement of Fiorina over DeVore in California this year.
I don’t think anybody who has argued that Palin was right to endorse Fiorina over DeVore to prevent a more liberal victor could possibly argue that Hunter’s endorsement of Huckabee was wrong-headed. Unless of course they aren’t making a logical argument, but rather a political one.
Or Palin’s when she was running for Vice President.
On the other hand, maybe they think he should have just quit his seat early.
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