Local Republicans 'impressed' by Hunter (Duncan Hunter in NC)

I will vote for Hunter if he gets the Republican nomination. I don’t think my vote in the primaries is going to make much difference anyway by the time my state comes up.

**You are arguing with yourself here. Congress will get re-elected in 2008.**

Congress today has the lowest poll numbers in years, if the Republicans really wanted to retake Congress their chance is a hell a lot better to start now rather than not even trying which is what I am seeing.

**You used Hunter (as President) being ineffective based on a Democratic Congress. We do not know that will or will not be the case in 2008.**

No but looking at history we has suffered from having Republican Presidents end up enacting more liberal laws or getting more liberal judges than if the Republicans held Congress. You can kiss goodbye another conservative Supreme Court member as long as Ted Kennedy calls the shots.

**Then you say you would want Hunter to be Speaker of the House. He absolutly can not become the Speaker of the House unless the Congress is handed over to the GOP.**

It seems to me that there is a large number of Republicans who don’t really want to control Congress both in Congress and at the grass roots. The 2006 election was not a massive Democratic landslide that can never be overcome. The Democrats has slim majorities in both houses of Congress.

If the Republicans would drop this immigration fiasco (which I agree with Hunter about) and start running ads and going on offense to retake the House then maybe they could retake it.

This crap of “We can’t take the House in 2008” isn’t something winners accept but I am afraid Republicans aren’t winners but whiners.

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