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Posted on 01/14/2008 10:19:35 AM PST by AuntB
Don’t be quick to count him out...listen to what he says on the stump. I could get excited about a Romney/Hunter ticket
The Pinnacle Center is nice. Been there a few times.
If you're talking about Romney, I won't go there.
I'm with you about the coffee...I was thinking the same thing when I first saw the video. GMTA! LOL!
{{{{to the lousy photog}}}}
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Thank you for the summary.
This really isn’t the first time that Hunter and Romney are at a conservative event that few others attend. Beats me what they have in mind. But it’s no more wierd than Fred endorsing McCain which is very likely to happen.
It doesn’t set well with me.
There are some people still alive in this country who lived through World War II, either in uniform or, as most Americans did, working in some capacity that directly or indirectly supported the war effort. Through a sense of patriotism, they sacrificed their personal needs for the good of their country. Gasoline and rubber were in short supply and were rationed, so car travel was very limited. But that's ok, because there weren't any Motel 6s or Holiday Inns either. The US was still in the Great Depression, only you wouldn't know it by the government's economic reports. The war had "solved" the unemployment problem.
Now, this is by way of putting some background behind Rep. Hunter's Second Important Issue, rebuilding the "Arsenal of Democracy."
Does he really expect the American public to make the kinds of sacrifices our parents and grandparents made to defeat the Germans and the Japanese? To wage a war against third-world terrorists who don't have an army, a navy or an air force?
I don't think so.
Another little factoid that is not often discussed, but still very much relevant to Hunter's campaign is that the US is currently the world's leading exporter of munitions. (It used to be the USSR, but that country fell on hard times.) How much more would he want us to manufacture?
I don't know what I'm going to do the next time someone says that DH isn't "personable." *sigh*
Ottawa County (Hudsonville, Holland, Zeeland, Grand Haven) is probably the most conservative county in Michigan. Glad to see Hunter here.
For each new thread that these puny people assault (over and above a relatively forgiveable one or two post hit and run) I will add ONE MORE PERSON in my personal network back in the States whom I will e-mail in support of Duncan Hunter and ask them to pass on to another person the request that they vote for him in their states primary.
Every negative action of these naysayers and troublemakers, I am going to convert into CleanTech as a kick in pants (my pants!) to mobilize even more people for Hunter.
They showed up on about five Hunter threads today, so I have to find five more people I know whom I have not yet contacted. Almost all of them are in states that have not yet had primaries or caucuses.
I hope they enjoy my new motivation to channel their hate and pettyness into real results for the Congressman Hunter Team!
Tomorrow morning will be our last chance to call a talk show that airs in Michigan for Hunter so that he has a good showing there.
“I hope they enjoy my new motivation to channel their hate and pettyness into real results for the Congressman Hunter Team!”
They help energize me, too! I’m already energized, but they make me even more determined to end RINOism in the Republican Party.
How on earth could McCain dispute the success of the San Diego fence? It's amazing that this man is still a Senator.
Glad to hear such a glowing DH report!
Does Brownback's love of ILLEGAL immigration trump the life issue?
from my e-mail (lifenews.com)
"John McCain Questioned on His Opposition to Abortion, GOP Pro-Life Platform Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A pro-life advocate who works within the Republican Party is questioning presidential candidate John McCain's opposition to abortion and his position on a human life amendment. The GOP platform currently supports a human life amendment that would afford legal protection for unborn children from abortions. McCain has a strong pro-life voting record in the Senate on abortion but has come under fire before for apparently flip-flopping on whether he supports the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
He's also disappointed pro-life advocates with his repeated votes for embryonic stem cell research funding. Colleen Parro, the head of the Republican National Coalition for Life, talked with the Cybercast News Service and said she is "not comfortable" with McCain's position on pro-life issues. "It indicates that he is willing to vote for measures that regulate or restrict the practice of abortion," Parro said. "But in terms of ending legal abortion, there's no evidence he shares that goal with those of us that are pro-life." "His position in support of embryonic stem-cell research indicates that Mr. McCain is not truly pro-life. If you support killing people at the very outset of their lives, then there is no possible way you would support ending legal abortion," she told CNS."
I find that rather than get linearly angry at them head-on (which is what they want/use child psychology) we can have a) a little fun; b) stay cool ourselves; c) convert all their negative mass and energy back upon themselves; and d) not get too distracted in arguing with them that we neglect encouraging pro-Hunter freepers to hang in there, or to use our time to reach people beyond the narrow purvey of FR which should be JOB 1. Their intent is to bog down those threads and ruin them, and cause us to be ineffective, but it will not work with them being pitted against some of the best tactical minds and energetic bodies here on FR, i.e. those in the DH community.
Nice to see you R, imagine Duncan Jr. is on the trail there too? Are you sensing any Granholm backlash in your area that could result in a turnout for any GOP candidate?
Lots of it here.
The GR Press had an interesting breakdown of dollar support per zip code for each candidate. Romney was tops in Ottawa, McCain in Kent.
They do have a use, though. They bump the threads to the top. :)
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