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To: Clara Lou
Hunter is dead in the water because he needs money that he can’t get without media coverage and he can’t get media coverage because the "the money" doesn’t want it. See how the merry-go-round works? Do you seriously think that the people get to pick the candidates?
11 posted on 11/15/2007 4:14:52 AM PST by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: Earthdweller

Hunter needs a wealthy benefactor.

Someone motivated entirely by patriotism and good sense.

Is there such a person in America today?


12 posted on 11/15/2007 4:18:00 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (I like Duncan Hunter)
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To: Earthdweller

Hunter is dead in the water because of one person: Duncan Hunter.

Huckabee came from where Hunter is in the polls to being an actual contender. Do you know how he did it? By campaigning at Ames and convincing people to vote for him there. He came in second to Romney in what is historically the most important straw poll event for Republicans.

Hunter was there too. He campaigned there too, unlike some of the top-tier candidates. The only problem is that even though he campaigned there, he still finished WAY at the back of the pack. Only John McCain and John Cox (McCain not participating) performed worse than Duncan Hunter.

From that moment on, by failing to ignite his campaign at the ONE opportunity that a campaign like his has to do so, he murdered his own campaign and it has been decomposing ever since.

There is no media conspiracy. The media loves underdogs. They’d gladly pay attention to Hunter in a second if he gave them something worth paying attention to. He hasn’t.

Hunter could EASILY be where Huckabee is right now, if he only had the charisma to sway people to vote for him. He doesn’t. I think you guys know he doesn’t, which is why you all constantly try to browbeat everyone else into supporting him. It doesn’t work that way.


16 posted on 11/15/2007 4:26:44 AM PST by perfect_rovian_storm (John Cox 2008: Because Duncan Hunter just isn't obscure enough for me!)
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To: Earthdweller

Well, life is full of systems that we all have to operate within. If you want to be a politician, you have to do some things within the political system to be able to operate successfully. Hunter did well enough in California politics, but he didn’t do what he had to do to be able to operate in the system nationally.


19 posted on 11/15/2007 4:31:14 AM PST by Clara Lou (Thompson '08)
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To: Earthdweller
A bit too conspiratorial.
31 posted on 11/15/2007 4:51:14 AM PST by ejonesie22 (Real voters in real voting booths will elect FDT.)
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To: Earthdweller
Do you seriously think that the people get to pick the candidates?

Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)

See your own tagline!

168 posted on 11/15/2007 10:15:53 AM PST by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: Earthdweller; Clara Lou
Do you seriously think that the people get to pick the candidates?

If you really, truly believed that, you would be training a militia. Are you?

345 posted on 12/07/2007 1:49:34 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (Support Scouting: Raising boys to be strong men and politically incorrect at the same time.)
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