[Labyrinthos]

Hunter has been in Congress now for 27 years. The Founding Fathers did not intend to create a class of professional politicians to serve in perpetuity. The job is not that difficult for anyone who is reasonable intelligent, and a real conservative should understand this and step aside to give someone else a chance before Washington, D.C. corrupts, which might be too late in this situation. True, Hunter started out with A's and B's, but he is now pulling C's. Like I said, Washington, D.C. corrupts and the more time a person stays in office, the greater the chance they will lose site of who they are and what they stand for. Just ask Hunter's friend, Duke Cunningham, who spends his time these days in the Federal Pokey, rather then the halls of Congress

While Hunter may have directed his share of pork to the military, the money is not going to projects that the military has requested. Instead, much of the pork has gone to projects that have been pushed by military contractors located in Hunter's district, who also happen to contribute directly or indirectly to Hunter's re-election campaign. If the military thought the projects were worthy, then the military would have funded the projects through the defense appropriations bill, rather than asking a yeoman Congressman to fund the project through a pork appropriation.

Most importantly, Hunter has been a consistent opponent of government reform, particularly in the area of pork barrel spending. As a result, our hard earn dollars are directed away from funding legitimate projects that the Department of Defense has requested in the defense appropriations bill to crap like bridges to nowhere and gum drop museums.

[pissant]

Hunter has consistently fought for increased military spending. He damn near alone kept missile defense alive during the Clinton years.

This is no yeoman, this is THE #1, ABSOLUTE top military expert in the congress.

[Paul Ross]

...the money is not going to projects that the military has requested....

Erroneous opinion on your part. Ergo, you are part of the problem...which the Administration, the RATs and the RINOs all constitute. Preventing the real recapitalization of the U.S. military.

E.g., The military has not requested the funding for continuing the C-17 production line, but IT NEEDS IT. It needs at least 210 of them, yet the Administration and the Rats tried to limit them to only 120. Fortunately Hunter and Kyl pushed it up to at least 180 of them, but we are still 30 short.

And that is just ONE example.

I will take Hunter's judgment over the past three presidents...any day of the week.

[panthermom]

You are exactly right about our forefathers not wanting professinal politicians. They also gave us the right to VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE. I could see myself voting for a congressman that cut off illegals coming into my community and trashing it over and over again. I hate goverment waste as well, you are right it is my money too, but I really hate my money going to aid goverments that hate us and illegals that are scamming me. His votes for the most part have fallen to a C in the last 6 years, while Republican's were in the drivers seat. He obviously voted along party lines, for that I can forgive him. What the other candidates have against them, voting party line is minor, IMHO.