This is the most frustrating race for me. I had never even heard of Duncan Hunter until a year ago. And I’m from Southern California. Someone called in to Medved saying Duncan was the best candidate, and Medved did his little condescending thing to him.
I looked up Hunter, and agreed with virtually everything he stands for. I’ve sent him money, and still tell everyone I talk to about him when we talk politics. It seems the talk show posse decided they didn’t like him a long time ago, and sealed his fate. It seems he only reason Huckabee came alive was that he started preaching, and a lot of gullible evengelical (not all evangelicals are gullible) got excited. , despite the talk show posse ignoring him.
If Huckabee fizzles, his followers will be looking for another prolife evangelical to fill the void. Hunter fits that bill, no one else in the race is evangelical.
The GOP doesn’t get it. They need to let this faction find a home. The amount of invective aimed at evangelicals is surprising, but then everyone wants their votes.
Huckabee has surged because he won a couple of debates and he’s got evangelical support. If a quick rise can happen to the liberal pro-life evangelical Huckster, it can happen to the conservative pro-life evangelical Hunter.
Prolife evangelicals will be very comfortable in Hunter’s camp, since he’s a prolife evangelical staunch conservative.