Duncan Hunter Endorses Mike Huckabee

National Review Online ^ | 1-23-08 | Byron York

[TitansAFC]

This was a surprise. From the Hunter statement:

"I got to know Governor Huckabee well on the campaign trail," said Hunter. "Of the remaining candidates I feel that he is strongly committed to strengthening national defense, constructing the border fence and meeting the challenge of China's emergence as a military superpower that is taking large portions of America‚s industrial base."

"Along with these issues of national security, border enforcement and protecting the U.S. industrial base, I see another quality of Mike Huckabee's candidacy that compels my endorsement. Mike Huckabee is a man of outstanding character and integrity. I saw that character over the last year of campaigning and was greatly impressed. The other Republican candidates have many strengths and I wish them all well. My personal choice is Mike Huckabee," Hunter concluded.

[PaRepub07]

Romney is a flip-flopper and a closet liberal

[patriciaruth]

WT* is this country coming to? Seriously.

Looks like we're going back to the cartoon Looneytunes country we had while Clinton was in office.

[NathanR]

Pissant was on a draft Duncan Hunter thread, when the news got out. You should have heard the wailing and gnashing of teeth. LOL

[CindyDawg]

I’m very proud of you:’)

[FreedomProtector]

Folks, you had better take a most closer look a Huckabee; especially if you are seriously pro-life, against the homosexual agenda, and for protecting the 2nd Ammendment. Huckabee is only going to appoint originalists to the supreme court. He is NOT a Jimmy Carter, and if you think that you are just a plain damnable fool.

Very True.

[mrsmel]

If Jesus Christ endorsed Huckabee...he WOULD get my vote.

Then-but only then.

[patriciaruth]

I missed the Minutemen show. What happened?

[pogo101]

I gather you didn’t read Malkin’s post, but oh well. I recognize there are SOME overlaps between the two men’s positions, but the (correct) consensus is that, as amongst Republicans, their *differences* are far weightier and make them, at best, strange bedfellows indeed.

[CJ Wolf]

If we don’t get off the socialization of America train wreak the foreign policy issues don’t mean crap.

[pogo101]

I don’t wish pissant any ill. Anyone can support a pol only to feel betrayed later.

[afnamvet]

Hunter is a corrupt career politician and I am glad I can finally say it here on FR.

LIAR

[khnyny]

Who do you support then?

[mrsmel]

Troll, nobody cares what you think. Your inanities would be better stated at your stomping grounds over at the DUmp.

[pissant]

Ya didn’t here me wail too much. I wanted no endorsement, but hey, it’s his call, not mine. I’m writing in Hunter.

[spectre]

We trusted Duncan Hunter. My God, he had a proven track record against Illegal Immigration. He fought against the comprehensive immigration reform bill, fought for the wall..

We had no reason not to believe in him.

But I sensed something was amiss when his campaign never fully got off the ground.

But never this...never.

sw

[numberonepal]

Pardon me while I freak out.

















There. Better. Now that I accept it, let's vote for Mitt.

[Miss Didi]

RUSH: You can love your guy. Just don't call him conservative.

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I have been thinking since this recent spate of callers from Huckabee supporters, which started about 50 minutes ago, 45 to 50 minutes ago, thought about it long and hard during the break, even been thinking about it here while doing other things opening this hour's monologue segment. I want to say to you Huckabee supporters that you've convinced me. I have been convinced. I've been convinced through the power and the brilliance of your arguments made to me here on the phone on this program, today, that Governor Huckabee is a true conservative. He is the only guy who is a true conservative, and I have concluded that I am debasing myself and the conservative cause by questioning it. As a matter of fact, Governor Huckabee was right to increase taxes by $500 million in Arkansas. Governor Huckabee was right to offer in-state tuition to illegal aliens. He was right to offer the Mexican government a consulate in Arkansas for one dollar a year. More states should show this kind of compassion. When I learned this, I said, "There's a conservative." The Mexican consulate, a dollar a year in Arkansas. He was right to release over one thousand criminals. This is conservative. He is right to oppose school choice. This is conservative. And he was right to accuse President Bush of a bunker mentality and stubbornness in dealing with our enemies. He was right in suggesting that the way to deal with Bin Laden and Zawahiri and other enemies of the United States is to implement the Golden Rule. He was right.

This is, ladies and gentlemen, the new conservatism. It is both Reaganism and post-Reaganism, postmodern Reaganism and after-modern post-Reaganism. I'm sitting here chastising myself. "How could I have missed this?" After 20 years, how could I have missed this? After 20 years it has become clear, after only eight weeks of Governor Huckabee on the scene, I now see the new conservatism: no school choice, $500 million in tax increases, Mexican consulates in states for one dollar a year, in-state tuition to illegal aliens, the new conservatism. And how could all the rest of us, the tens of millions of conservatives who have yet to even vote in these primaries, and the over 60% in Iowa who did not vote for Governor Huckabee, how could we have made such an error? I have seen the light.



RUSH: The Hucksters Make Their Case - and Finally Convince the Host?

[Beagle8U]

I’m not as surprised as a whole bunch of the rest here.

Once Fred dropped out Huckabilly is the only one left that is solid on pro-family, pro-life, and pro-gun.

I expect the NRA and NRTL to endorse Huckabilly too.

If those two wings of the party can’t back the nominee we’re looking at a 50 state landslide loss!

[Edit35]

after polls came out showing that 47% of people will vote against Romney.

Which polls are they?

In a related note, polls in 1960 showed that 45% or voters said they would not vote for a Catholic (which I suppose is what your poll is referring to, Romney's Mormon faith)