Posted on 04/23/2007 11:25:33 AM PDT by WalterSkinner
When I last perused a site that Representative Hunter PAID FOR, it very, very much suggested that El Dunco went to “Western State University Law School” (a PIONEER of airline magazine advertisements) specifically BECAUSE it required no undergraduate degree AND he had NONE. But I suppose that such suggestions, perhaps on the basis of lucre, are down your memory hole.
Mind linking to that website?
It was his Congressional PAC sight, with a grandiose moniker. It’s probably down, as you probably know.
"A Vietnam veteran, Duncan Hunter has served in the 173rd Airborne and 75th Army Rangers and after returning home, utilized the G.I. Bill to attend Western State University Law School in San Diego. While completing his degree, Hunter worked in farming and construction, and opened a storefront legal office after graduation where he began serving many in the Hispanic community, often without compensation. In 1980, Hunter was asked to mount a challenge for the Congressional seat held by Lionel Van Deerlin. Despite the district having a 2-to-1 Democratic registration, Hunter won the seat in an upset."
Thanks for memories. Unfortunately, the site has been altered to exclude Dunco’s retreat to an island in the middle of some damn Northwest river where he farmed until his parents pointed out he didn’t need an undergraduate degree to attend that citadel of learning where he presumedly earned a law degree.
"In 1969, he dropped out of college, joined the army and was sent to Vietnam. From there he mailed his pay to a friend who purchased for him an island in Idaho's Snake River, where Duncan farmed after his discharge. Then another friend said a San Diego law school would admit him without a college degree. In 1980 he was a lawyer with a storefront office in San Diego's Hispanic community when his father walked in and told him he could be a congressman. Never mind, his father said, that this district was only 29 percent Republican. Reagan was at the top of the ticket."
So let's see here. It wasn't his parents; it was a friend. And by drop out, I can only assume that Will is referring to dropping out without getting a graduate degree, as by 1969, Hunter had already gotten his B.S. undergraduate degree (1968). I can also only assume that his friend means that Western State University College of Law did not require you to have a graduate degree to be admitted.
And hey, what do you know, Hunter went to WSU and got a J.D. professional law degree anyway.
Do you want to lay this particular line of conversation to rest now?
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Naaaw, you’re still on the billing clock and Duncan’s contributors are still paying.
1) Has the esteemed Representative Hunter requested a clarification from George Will concerning the drop out? What ADVANCED degree program did Duncan abandon, much to civilization’s woe? Was it...perhaps, Porkafilia?
2) Assuming your tale concerning Duncan’s graduate studies, do ANY other law schools in whole, wide world require another GRADUATE degree BEFORE entry? Really, don’t you see see the problems here - or, on a billing basis, don’t you care?
Oh, and it's nice to see you insinuate I'm a paid representative of the Hunter campaign. Top-notch stuff there.
Has the esteemed Representative Hunter requested a clarification from George Will concerning the drop out? What ADVANCED degree program did Duncan abandon, much to civilization’s woe?
I don't know. He went to Vietnam to serve his country.
Assuming your tale concerning Duncan’s graduate studies, do ANY other law schools in whole, wide world require another GRADUATE degree BEFORE entry? Really, don’t you see see the problems here - or, on a billing basis, don’t you care?
Assuming your tale concerning Duncan’s graduate studies, do ANY other law schools in whole, wide world require another GRADUATE degree BEFORE entry? Really, don’t you see see the problems here - or, on a billing basis, don’t you care?
How am I supposed to know? I'm not Duncan Hunter.
Ugh. Double copy.
IIRC, I've seen some pretty credible sources that indicate Duncan Hunter has been as big on porking bills up as anyone else in Congress, so I don't think it's just anti-Hunter propaganda.
Thank you for the laugh this early in the morning, kind sir. I believe I DO have some credibility in this area, however. Let me just put it this way: Spelling acuity is my life
That is true. His position on the House Armed Services Committee might have something to do with it, as spending for the sake of increasing defense - particularly during the arms build-up at the end of the Cold War - was probably not something to be concerned with. Aside from that, his spending habits were mostly okay - I can’t recall the website, but they were in the B range - until the Bush Administration came along, where a multitude of Republicans became less fiscally conservative (no big surprise there).
Nevertheless, I’m willing to overlook that due to his support for making the tax cuts permanent, reforming the tax code, lessening regulations on businesses, and cutting down bureaucracies such as the IRS. That, and just how bang-up conservative he is on almost everything else.
Sonic, you are one fine American...wish there were more college kids like you around to counteract the liberal domination of academia. :-)
I’m getting that a lot these days. I’m kind of hoping that the generation that grew up under Reagan will be the ones to push a lot of this socialism out of the universities. Would be nice.
I grew up in the Reagan era, and I am trying my damndest to usurp control of the field of education one school at a time until such time as I receive my Doctorate and enter academia. THEN I will be able to effect some change...:-)
I’ve seen nothing of the sort
I don't have the time right at the moment to whip together the complete package, but the Club for Growth, which I think most all of us would consider to be a solidly fiscal conservative oprganisation that is in the mainstream, not the fringes, doesn't think too highly of a lot of Hunter's record on fiscal conservatism.
Duncan Hunter's voting record on fiscal issues
More can come later if you like.
They have their panties in a wad because they think the world of stupid trade agreements like NAFTA. They probably see a great benefit from letting mexican truckers have free reign too.
Look, I like Duncan Hunter, and he'd be my second (and unfortunately quixotic) choice if Fred doesn't get in the race. But all the same, EVERYBODY, even Duncan, has some problems with things they've voted for/stood for in the past. Duncan Hunter is not the pure ideologue that the purists want, so their attempts to cast Fred Thompson as a "RINO" because he's not 100% pure as the driven snow (only ~97%, AFAICS) on every conservative issue under the sun rings hollow with me, and doesn't make me any less likely to support him.
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