Posted on 08/13/2007 1:24:44 PM PDT by pissant
To members of Free Republic and friends, I would like to introduce a candidate for President of the United States and the current congressman from the 52nd district of California, Duncan Hunter!! To Americans who value the patriotism and missions of our Armed Forces, to those who want to put fear into the hearts of our adversaries from Beijing to Tehran, to those who value the rule of law when it comes to illegal immigration, to those who realize that the unborn deserve full legal protection beginning at conception, to those who believe Peace through Strength is far more than a motto, to those who do not like giving communist China unfettered access to our markets while they cheat at every turn, to those who want to halt and reverse losses of US sovereignty to global entities, and to those who want the GOP to return to Reaganism, Mr. Hunter is the Best choice.
Congressman Hunter currently is the ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee, after spending the previous 4 years as its chair. He is an original co-sponsor of the Fair Tax bill and he is the author of the Secure Borders bill, signed by President Bush in 2006, which mandates 800+ miles of double fence across the smuggling corridors of the SW. He also is the man who has led the fight against NAFTA’s Mexican truckers having free reign on our roads, has forced congressional oversight of the executive branch’s ‘Security and Prosperity Partnership’ with Canada and Mexico, and was instrumental in saving our military intelligence officers from having to jump through bureaucratic hoops unrelated to combat.
A Vietnam combat Veteran himself, he currently has a son in the Marine Corps, Capt. Duncan Duane Hunter who is busy hunting jihadis in Afghanistan after two tours in Iraq. Congressman Hunter has been the anti-dote to the liberals in Congress doing their damndest to cut and run from the battlefield. Mr. Hunter knows that this war is our generation’s calling, and “the only way we can leave is to WIN”.
Below are 15 questions we compiled last month on Free Republic, which we sent to Congressman Hunter a few weeks ago. They are followed by his answers. This is the springboard we will use to kick off Mr. Hunter’s live “virtual press conference” on FR today.
Please stop by and say hello and you may post additional questions. HOWEVER, Please realize that time limitations will prevent him from answering all the questions you may have. Though he may get time later to forward answers to many left unaddressed during this session.
Please drop Jim Robinson a note of thanks as well. For not only hosting this event, but for having the best conservative website in the country!
Also, no disruptors allowed. Your posts will be removed.
The following is our Kickoff Q&A session:
They are using something that already exists. Your SS #.
Pissant has redefined the Internet and campaign strategies!
Good advice. They should give Boortz a call.
I said nothing about “offensive” posts. I said disruptors will be removed. I’m not exactly the inoffensive type of guy.
LOL! Hardly.
I think you are the last best hope for bringing true Conservative values back to the federal executive and I will do anything I can to support your candidacy. I've already sent in my donations and am trying to spread the word about your candidacy in my local community in Adams County, Pennsylvania. It's difficult since a lot of average rural folks just don't keep up with current news, politics, and national life-impacting issues like they should. But I hope that we FReepers can boost your name recognition throughout the country and help you achieve primary victories in the future, leading up to the 2008 national election.
Please hang in there, and don't take any crap from your RINO competitors, or from Hillary and Obama.
VR
Thank you for compiling this list.
I was just thinking that such a summary would be great.
Cato wants open borders and "free" trade, but that doesn't mean that their criticism of TR is incorrect in this instance. Are you saying that TR was misquoted? Do you agree with the quotes in the post? I know Hunter doesn't.
They are taking his quote out of context and they are certainly painting him in an unflattering light. It is called natural selection....selecting snippets that naturally fit with one’s thesis. I consider Teddy to be one of the great US presidents.
Jim’s forum, his rules.
I can't help but laugh, rememebring the borderbots blaming Bush because the environazis tied it up in court. And they turn out to be supportes of the man who wrote the law. AHHH, IRONY.
I’m missing something, apparently.
The border fence is necessary for national security. Border control is necessary.
Environmental laws would take a hike if the President desired border control as much as Hunter, Inhofe, Tancredo, or a number of other people in Congress.
There's enough there to damn TR on his own.
I consider Teddy to be one of the great US presidents.
Then you need to do more homework than the typical comic book understanding of TR that I see here. You've chosen blind party loyalty over principle. That means you are a dangerous supporter, one who will not try to restrain a leader from making a serious mistake.
Nor do you understand the corruption inherent to big regulatory government that TR unleashed. I've researched the topic for nearly a decade. My book was hand carried into the Bush White House by Senator Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming (Dick Cheney's mentor). Unfortunately, 911 happened almost immediately after its publication making follow up impossible.
The failure to understand the consequences of regulation is a sadly common deficiency, because the exercise of police power to solve a problem, while schematically simple, is too complex to render a just or productive result. People do not understand how liberty under the rule of law can solve the problems incontinent regulation is purported to solve, much less where the problems arose that supposedly necessitated a regulatory response.
Then sign a law telling them that it’s off limits to the courts. Congress has that power.
If you think TR was bad in that regard, wait until you read about Woodrow Wilson. At least TR worked within the realm of the Constitution— Wilson’s cronies gutted it with Prohibition, progressive income tax, and elimination of state legislatures choosing the Senators.
THANK YOU SIR !!
SFC David Osborne
Operation Iraqi FReedom
I have. No argument there. Socialism had become a popular fad. The consequences were virtually unknown.
It is simply preposterous to blame TR for the nanny state that has since ensued. Try starting with his cousin.
So much goodness in one package. We are blessed to have him in the running, and we’ll be even more blessed if he wins. All Hunterheads: Pray daily for his victory. America needs a man like him, now more than ever!
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