Hunter airs first GOP ads of 2008 presidential race

San Diego Union Tribune / Copley News Svc ^

[airborne]

And also can he LEAD? Does he have EXECUTIVE experience? Inquiring minds want to know.

He served in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne and with the Rangers.

[Sybeck1]

Are the ads on youtube yet?

[Condor51]

****Ironically, the protectionist neanderthals in the mold of Buchanan/Nader among us have the nerve to call others RINOs. I suggest they review economic history, starting with the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.*****

"Neanderthals"?

BTW, I like your profile, especially this part:

"Currently I'm getting my frontal lobotomy .. at the University of Illinois at Chicago." [Okay I redacted it, but it's funnier my way.]

Anyawy, don't worry sonny, us grown ups will handle this.

An aside; your tagline is a hoot too.
Considering your young age, you were in diapers when 'St Rudy' was doing his 'miricles' in NYC. Did you hear about them from your parents? In any case someone must have forgotten to mention his disdain for the Constitution and Bill of Rights to you. Especially the Second Amendment.

Wait that's mean. I'm sorry. But hey, I can't help it, I'm a Neanderthal.

[airborne]

First use of the brand new Duncan Hunter Ping List!

I'm not on?

[Antoninus]

President Giuliani in 2008! Law and Order. Solid Judges. Free Markets. Killing Terrorists.

Allow me to correct that for you:

President Giuliani in 2008! Grabbing Guns. Solid Tax Increases. Killing the Unborn.

Rudy is a liberal. If you're not from the Northeast, you may not know that. Electing a liberal to be the standard bearer for the GOP will be the death of the party.

Don't say we didn't warn you...

[Antoninus]

I'm not on?

You are now!

[Dead Corpse]

Screw you and the liberal New York Attorney you rode in on.

[Dead Corpse]

President Giuliani in 2008! Grabbing Guns. Solid Tax Increases. Killing the Unborn.

Truth in Advertising.

[Antoninus]

Truth in Advertising.

Oh, and I forgot--"Guaranteed Gay Marriage!"

[Dead Corpse]

I don't care what gays do. I don't want government redefining what I see as primarily a religious sacrament. Seems a really bad idea to me. And no, I don't want to get side tracked on the argument.

Suffice it to say, Rudy, John, and Mitt can all go p*ss up a rope for one reason or another.

Hunter still isn't my ideal, but he IS a conservative I could vote for.

[JHBowden]

Sir, I'm almost 28 years old. Note that my lobotomy, which I finished this month, is in physics.

Secondly, usually the Democrats are the cavemen who don't take economics seriously as a field of study. Now it seems everyone here at FR is going Comrade Nader on me, and again, this crowd has the nerve to call others RINOs.

Third, Hunter has about as much chance of defeating Hillary in 2008 as I do. We can chant "O'Doyle Rules!" all we want, and that won't change that fact.

[airborne]

Thaanks!

[ArrogantBustard]

So far, so good ... There had to be an alternative to socialists in (R) coats.

[Antoninus]

Third, Hunter has about as much chance of defeating Hillary in 2008 as I do. We can chant "O'Doyle Rules!" all we want, and that won't change that fact.

So your reason for supporting Giuliani is because he can defeat Hillary? I guess that makes you a politics over principals guy, eh?

What's worse, your political calculus is disastrously wrong. Rudy doesn't have a prayer of beating Hillary. If he's the GOP nominee, a third party candidate will suddenly "emerge" to run to Rudy's right--and that won't be hard considering he's a liberal. When that happens, Hillary will be elected president with 45% of the vote--just like her husband did. In such a race, Giuliani will be lucky to come in second.

[PhilCollins]

Hunter's ads aren't the first. In Sept., John Cox, a Republican from Chicago, started airing TV commercials in every part of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, on Fox News Channel.

John declared his candidacy in March, and, since then, he's campaigned in the above three states at least five times each, campaigning in every county in those states. He's a lawyer, CPA, real estate broker, and investment advisor. He ran for the U.S. Senate, in 2002, in IL, and received 23% of the primary vote. He was the president of the Cook Co. GOP, in 2004. He's pro-life, pro-Iraq war, and pro-gun rights. He supports a national sales tax, and he wants the federal government to deport more illegal aliens. He has campaign employees in 28 states. If you want to learn more about John, please check his site, www.cox2008.com.

[airborne]

Third, Hunter has about as much chance of defeating Hillary in 2008 as I do.

I've heard many complaints and reasons why Rudy, Mitt and John aren't representative of our conservative values. The only real complaint about Hunter is that he's not well known.

So I ask you - are we to surrender our principles 23 months out just so we have a chance to win?

Wouldn't it make more sense to get behind a true conservative now, while there's still time to help him?

Why the rush to fall in line with the liberal media's picks?

[wny]

Hunter has the historical let's-elect-a-guy-with-an-unusual first-name advantage. It worked for Ulysess, Rutherford and Millard.

[JHBowden]

"So your reason for supporting Giuliani is because he can defeat Hillary?"

That's better than supporting candidates who will lose to Hillary. People have forgotten what that entails-- pardoning FALN terrorists, Kyoto, universal health care, ACLU judges packed on the courts, French veto over America security, Gitmo terrorists put back in circulation, repeal of the Patriot Act... I need not go on. She has the Dem Congress to make it happen, given we ousted RINOs like Allen, Santorum, Talent and so forth last election.

"I guess that makes you a politics over principals guy, eh?"

I'm a winning over authenticity guy. We're one judge away from overturning a LOT of socialist nonsense. Giuliani has been a loyal party guy, and is even going out of his way to promise judges like Alito and Scalia.

That's how the game is played, and the Ross Perot types need to wise up.

[discostu]

This causes me to be seriously unimpressed by him. First off we just finished mid-terms, give the election cycle a bit of a rest, there's no reason to be running 2008 ads in 2006. Secondly, what about the people that actually elected him, shouldn't they get at least a couple of months where he at least pretends his #1 priority is representing him? Third, South Dakota?! Since when has either Dakota mattered in presidential politics.

Really somebody making this serious a blunder this early in the campaign cycle (at least 8 months before the campaign cycle should even begin) causes me to seriously question both his electability and intelligence.