Duncan Hunter IS making a name for himself. Among other examples, Chris Wallace quoted Hunter just this morning on FoxNews Sunday, telling Chertoff that Duncan Hunter said only 13 milies of the 854 mile fence has been built so far.
Chris Wallace quoted DUNCAN HUNTER, because DUNCAN HUNTER knows what is going on. DUNCAN HUNTER has people checking out the progress of the fence.
Even the president didn’t know what little was accomplished on building that fence.
I’m not saying that Hunter isn’t a good man or that you shouldn’t support whoever you want to support.
But you take a look at a guy with 28 years in Washington who can’t muster more than 3% in the polls and see a winner.
I take a look at the same guy and see a career politician (my least favorite thing in the free world almost), who can’t attract more than 3% of his party base, which is clearly looking for a real conservative this time around, and see a man with no chance of winning anything on a national level.
We simply look at the same man and see two very different candidates.
Every conservative better come to grips with the very real fact that we have two very important objectives here in ‘08...
The first is to win the election...
because without this one, none of our principles matter a bit.
The second objective is equally important, to move our party and the nation as far to the right as is possible in any single election. This will require the most conservative president that can win, and the most congressional seats up for grabs, which means, coat-tails.
As a wise friend once said, “Politics is NOT a practice of the perfect, it’s a practice of the possible”.
It’s possible that Hunter could win. It’s possible that Buggs Bunny could win in ‘08.
But nobody can look at the odds and give either a likelyhood over the other right here...
BTW - Thompson being drafted by people rejecting Hunter and all others has to be one of the most frustrating things that could happen to any Hunter supporter. Ron Paul supporters feel exactly as Hunter supporters feel and the fact is, if it’s all about career voting records, Paul is far to the right of Hunter.
So if your argument is, you plan to damn the torpedos in support of whoever is the candidate farthest to the right, Hunter still isn’t the man.
Hunter and Paul, like all “second tier” candidates, are equal dark horse long-shots at best, politically speaking. They all have an equal chance of winning, which is almost none.
So if you’re going to go down in flames on principle, at least pick the man farthest to the right.
Why not make a real statement?