Posted on 11/14/2007 1:39:09 PM PST by dit_xi
The first siege of Fallujah was under way in Iraq in April 2004 when a furious Marine lieutenant grabbed a satellite phone and shouted a stream of expletives at the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
"Dad, we've already taken four K.I.A.," hollered Lt. Duncan D. Hunter. "But we're sweeping through the city, and we just got orders to stop attacking. What are you guys doing?"
Within minutes, said Rep. Duncan L. Hunter, the lieutenant's father, he was on the phone to the Pentagon, demanding why American troops halfway around the world were pulling back.
More than three years later, the 59-year-old congressman from suburban San Diego is a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. His 30-year-old son, now Capt. Duncan Hunter and deployed with the Marines in Afghanistan, is one of three GOP candidates for the House of Representatives seat that his father has held since 1980.
Their relationship helps explain the elder Hunter's quest for the White House. Duncan L. Hunter, an Army Ranger in Vietnam and the son of a Marine who served in World War II, is running for president as a frustrated patriot who's fed up with Pentagon bureaucracy as "freedom is hanging in the balance" in Iraq.
"He was a grunt in Vietnam, and he has taken that with him," said Gary Jacobson, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego. "He is very pro-soldier, not at all pro-brass, and that has served him well with his constituency."
Hunter's anti-brass appeal also extends to the campaign he's waging against the "free traders," who he complains have taken over his Republican Party. He bemoans U.S. factory jobs vanishing and a trade imbalance that he fears threatens American security by financing a Chinese military build-up "with money they're getting from us."
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Duncan Hunter: no nose holding necessary come election day.
Duncan Hunter: Favorite of Ann Coulter.
Hunter ping?
Also a favorite of Michelle Malkin and Laura Ingraham.
The trick is getting his name on the ballot on election day. Hope his campaign gets it into gear in time.
No CDEO this Hunter guy.
whew aint it the truth? what is every body waiting for..get on the DUNCAN HUNTER ....express....TRULY STRAIGHT TALK...
and he’s annies’ pick to....that about ices it....
Good PR on a local talk radio show yesterday.
I’m working hard on my end. I’ve phoned in to the local radio talk shows. I’ve written to the local newspaper editorials. When I get some time I’ll go and hand out some bumper stickers and yard signs if I can get my hands on them. Gonna call up DH headquarters with another donation so they can toss some bumper stickers and signs my way.
At this point good PR is better than bad PR but ANY PR is better than none.
And of the Republican party of Missouri, and of Rep. Henry Hyde, Ret., and of General Chuck Yeager, and of Brig. General Robert Cardenas, and of Laura Ingraham, and of Phyllis Schlafly, and on and on and on and of ........Paperdoll!
GO DUNCAN HUNTER! :)
Amen and amen!!!!
Low volume ping list
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I can't believe this was on KansasCity.com.
So we’re okay with Duncan Hunter micromanaging a war, but we hated it when LBJ did it in Vietnam? I’m confused.
Love Duncan H.
And everything he stands for 1000%.
I fear, however, he doesn’t have that inexplicable ‘likability’ factor (for lack of a better word) — which is vital in today’s US presidential politics.
Is it fair?? Absolutely not.
But it is reality that the vast American public usually gravitates to someone with an affable personality (Reagan, Clinton, and even GWB)
I don’t see LBJ mentioned anywhere in that piece.
Who's we?
You’re confused over the difference between Duncan Hunter and LBJ? Sorry, can’t help you out there, my friend.
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