Posted on 01/13/2008 8:40:43 AM PST by pissant
Hunter has more charisma than the others put together. Too bad he can’t be seen to show it. He’s well spoken, never misses a word or fails to make his point. He has a great sense of humor and looks like a man, not a metro Rino. I want a commander in cheif, not an appeaser, preacher or used car salesman.
The wit and wisdom of Duncan Hunter
(AP) Referring to Giuliani, Romney and McCain, Hunter said: “The guy who has the most influence with these three gentlemen is Ted Kennedy. We need to move away from the Kennedy wing of the Republican party.” Hunter
“I don’t need consultants to give me a conservative image.” Duncan Hunter
Hunter responding to Johnny Suttons’ remarks re: Campeon/Ramos:
HUNTER: You know, that’s about the weakest statement I have ever heard and about the weakest justification for saying that a guy is unarmed. So ask him. Pin him down on this thing. Say, did you search him, did anybody search him and so if you didn’t search him, how do you know he’s unarmed. And hit him with that. And, you know, the other question I’d ask him, if that’s true, how did those 600 people die in Nuevo Laredo, most of them in drug-related murders if guns weren’t used? Do these guys choke to death on their Wheaties in the morning?
Rep. Hunter makes use of child labor
We aren’t sure whether Rep. Duncan Hunter’s grandson is going to be class president or bully bait — it could go either way.
Hunter (R-Calif.) recounted in the Sept. 27 GOP presidential debate that the child, who is also named Duncan and called “D-3” by his family, has picked up some questionable habits from his grandfather.
“He walked up to his first-grade teacher about a month ago, stuck his hand out, and said, ‘My name is Duncan Hunter … My grampa’s going to be president,’” the senior Hunter said. “And then this little 6-year-old looked his teacher right in the eye, and he said, ‘Now, can I count on your vote?’ ”
Nurse Amy Salud, one of a platoon of nurses thanking Hunter for cheering their patients, shakes his hand and says they have met before. On a previous hospital visit? asks the congressman. “No, at the Miss Philippines Pageant,” says Salud. Hunter puts on a Scrooge face. “Ah, yes,” he says, “the Miss Philippines Pageant. I didn’t win.” Salud laughs.
He hands her a House of Representatives pen. He hands another to a bedridden patient. Hunter bends over and half-whispers, “It’s a congressional pen. It writes only in red.” The patient laughs.
You make the perfect point as to why Duncan Hunter is still in this race.
He is keeping conservative issues front and center in the race.
If it was left to the others, the fair trade, immigration and other issues would be minimized.
If you believe in conservative issues, you need a conservative leader!
Well, that seems to be changing for some of NJ.
1st Choice
38% Rudy Giuliani
16% Fred Thompson
15% John McCain
12% Mitt Romney
11% Ron Paul
5% Mike Huckabee
5% Duncan Hunter
2nd Choice
27% John McCain
22% Fred Thompson
17% Mitt Romney
12% Rudy Giuliani
8% Ron Paul
8% Mike Huckabee
6% Duncan Hunter
Rudy's support has dropped by by half since March.
This was the result of this Saturday's Middlesex County Presidential Convention.
That is funny! lol
Charisma is in the eye of the beholder.
Behold the collective blindness of the average voter.
Burley Dobson wants someone to whisper sweet happy nothings in his ear instead of the truth. The truth isn’t always the happiest thought. Dobson needs to read this.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2007/10/10/where%e2%80%99s_the_fire
“He had the exact same chance as Mike Huckabee did to catch on, and he didn’t.”
Sure he did....he got invited on Leno, letterman, Colbert, the daily show and all the talking heads...just like Huckabee....WAKE UP.
Hunter didn’t lie to get attention like Huck did. The only thing Hunter has proved is the media and too many republicans don’t want an honest candidate with the record to back it.
It’s another attempt from the socialist media to marginalize Congreeeman Hunter and Conservatism.
Congreeeman=Congressman. Darn keyboard! ;O)
Charisma and electability:
Two code words that mean a candidate is open to anti-Americanism.
Issues are not of concern to the RINOs, which is why they want Hunter out so bad....make sure there are no choices except bad ones.
It doesn’t matter if we are being LIED to, as long as they have “charisma”! The media decides who is “electable” and the average mind-numbed voter has been sold a bill of goods and took the bait...hook, line and sinker!
I know that the pro Hunter groups in both Facebook and Myspace are growing. Slowly, but growth is growth and that’s among primarily young voters.
“As Ann Coulter wrote in her new book, the best-qualified of all the candidates is Rep. Duncan Hunter.” - Michael Reagan
I know. America is asleep. No, not just asleep. In a coma.
Or how about China's thinly veiled threats to nuke L.A.?
New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman Fergus Cullen weighed in on the debate when ABC/Facebook excluded Hunter from Saturday night’s live broadcast. The network claimed Hunter lacked the support to be included in the broadcast.
Cullen said “Limiting the number of candidates who are invited to participate in debates is not consistent with the tradition of the first-in-the-nation primary. The level playing field requires that all candidates be given an equal opportunity to participate - not just a select few determined by the media prior to any votes being cast.”…
After unsuccessful attempts to convince Fox and ABC to reconsider, Cullen announced New Hampshire GOP would no longer support the Republican forum scheduled for Sunday on FOX that has also excluded Hunter.
http://newsblaze.com/story/20080106234257nnnn.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html
This headline seems to indicate so much of what is wrong with America. There’s a reason a call so many Americans “American Idle voters”.
“It’s Fox’s ‘Idol’ to the rescue”
Agreed,
However for the good of the conservative movement and for the good of America, would not it make sense for Hunter to bow out and throw his endorsement to Thompson?
Why split what is left of the true conservative base ?
I met some new Hunter supporters Saturday. They saw him once on Glenn Beck and came running to the Presidential Convention, never before being involved with politics, because they couldn’t understand, after hearing him once, why he is not the primary candidate. They came to this event to see what they could do to help.
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