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Ashamed to have ever believed in Duncan Hunter
Excellence In America ^ | 1/23/2008 at 9:17 PM EST | Jason Bradley

Posted on 01/23/2008 6:19:25 PM PST by ExcellenceInAmericacom



Ladies and gentleman, today I my heart sank...  My jaw dropped....  And my mind screamed!!!

I think blood shot out of my left eyeball as I opened my email this evening and I found this message from Chuck Winn, Florida Chief of Staff, Hunter for President  - who if you recall is the guy who provided respones for my campaign interview with Duncan Hunter's campaign.  Well here is he message and some of you may have recieved the same, I couldn't believe it either:

QUOTE:

I have full confidence that Congressman Hunter made this decision with the sole consideration of what would be in the best interest of our Country.  I have full faith and confidence in Congressman Hunter's judgement and urge you to join me in following his example.
 
Charles J. Winn
Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Hunter Endorses Huckabee for President
From: Gary Becks <garybecks@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, January 23, 2008 2:15 pm
To: Gary go hunter 08 <dlhunter08@yahoo.com>

HUNTER ENDORSES HUCKABEE FOR PRESIDENT
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  January 23, 2008
 
CONTACT:  Gary Becks  (619) 334-1655
 
Washington, D.C. - - - Congressman Duncan Hunter, who withdrew his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination on January 19, 2007 , today endorsed Mike Huckabee.
 
"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.
 
# # #


Gary Becks
Hunter for President
Media Relations
(619) 334-1655

END QUOTE

The guy we (THAT I) was calling a "real" conservative Endorses a guy who I consider more LIBERAL than Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter combined?!  What is going on?

Maybe Congressman Hunter thinks his "electoral luck" will rub off on Huckabee???  No, I think not, I think many of us have been severely let down.  I guess you never can tell.  This is absolutely puzzling!!??!?!??!!

Jason Bradley
ExcellenceInAmerica.com


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: betrayal; duncan; elections; huckabee; huime; hunter; lackofjudgment; mike
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To: ExcellenceInAmericacom

Well, I’m not a Huckabee fan, and, no, I can’t really understand why Hunter would pick him. But come on, some people here are totally overreacting. I’d still vote for Hunter again in a heartbeat. He is an excellent Congressman and I am definitely still proud to have supported him. And I will probably do it again, the next time he runs.

As for who I’m going to vote for now, I’m not sure. I’ve decided that I’m not just going to throw my vote away by on a candidate who’s dropped out, but I don’t particularly like any of the remaining contenders, either. This won’t be easy.


141 posted on 01/23/2008 8:23:51 PM PST by Zeon Cowboy (Pardon Ramos and Compean NOW! // Duncan Hunter '12?)
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To: torchthemummy
With 10 months to go until the election, and in one simple sentence, you have declared that your opinion has nothing to bring to the conversation but pessimism and an attitude of defeat. Ain't buying what you've got to sell, thank-you very much.

Actually, I am an optimist. My reasoning has everything to do with the fact that whoever the nominee is, large numbers of normally Republican voters will not turn out to support the candidate. If Hillary is the nominee, we have a chance only because of hatred for her and Democrats having little problem identifying themselves with the Republican nominee.

142 posted on 01/23/2008 8:24:02 PM PST by upsdriver (Thank you, Duncan Hunter! ! Like Ronald Reagan, you make me proud to be an American!)
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To: editor-surveyor

No, the 1964 keynoter was the Rockefeller choice, then Governor and later Senator Mark O. Hatfield of liberal OR.


143 posted on 01/23/2008 8:26:35 PM PST by Theodore R. ( Cowardice is still forever!)
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To: sam_paine

No, he considered an initial run against Nixon in 1968, not Goldwater in 1964. Goldwater in 1976 acquired Nancy Reagan’s eternal wrath when he endorsed G. Ford.


144 posted on 01/23/2008 8:28:08 PM PST by Theodore R. ( Cowardice is still forever!)
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To: txflake
Don't feel bad. I could have stayed away from the whole thing but I really liked the thought of FRed being in charge.

I will support Mitt FRomney now. If I have to listen to that cackle from billary for 4 years I won't make it.

145 posted on 01/23/2008 8:32:09 PM PST by eyedigress
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To: ExcellenceInAmericacom; Ronin; eyedigress; Sola Veritas; NordP; torchthemummy; 11th_VA; ...
Duncan Hunter Endorses Mike Huckabee
THIS IS NOT A SURPRISE.

Huckabee and Hunter where on the same page in every debate they where in together. Huckabee and Hunter come from the same conservative philosophical mold with the same foundational beliefs.

Duncan Video: Hunter/Huckabee stand up to Clinton/Corrupt News Network plant/Romney flip-flops on gays in military

Video Huckabee: There is nothing funny about President Hillary Clinton/We cannot be soft we must be strong and defeat Islamic fascism


HUCKABEE only mentioned one person for Secretary of Defense, DUNCAN HUNTER:
‘‘What you do,’’ he [Huckabee]explained, 'is surround yourself with the best possible advice.’ The only name he [Huckabee] mentioned was Representative Duncan Hunter of California. ‘Duncan is extraordinarily well qualified to be secretary of Defense,’ he [Huckabee] said.


Hunter undoubtedly had a closer look at Huckabee than conservative media commentators who have never met Huckabee or people commenting on a forum who have never bothered to research original sources or take a close look at what Huckabee actually says rather than what others are saying about him.


146 posted on 01/23/2008 8:32:49 PM PST by FreedomProtector
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To: CurlyBill

Those aren’t my words. They were quoted and requoted.


147 posted on 01/23/2008 8:33:07 PM PST by AuntB (" DON'T LET THE PRESS PICK YOUR CANDIDATE!" Mrs. Duncan Hunter 1/5/08)
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To: cripplecreek

Good article. And it gibes with a Duncan Hunter video I saw on trade. Hunter presented that other countries subsidize exports from their nations, while penalizing US imports, and that China devalues its currency to encourage exports. Economic theory concludes that they are hurting themselves by denying themselves better value US goods, in the first case, and reducing individual purchasing power (in dollars and other currencies), in the second case. Theory also says they are hurting us. Economic theory is logical and true. A dumb action hurts everyone. So how to respond? First, state that this is a problem, as Duncan Hunter has done. Then one might threaten a response. Negotiations are tough. Reagan on negotiating with the Soviets said that after negotiating with the Warner brothers, the Russians weren’t so bad.


148 posted on 01/23/2008 8:35:28 PM PST by ChessExpert (This enemy is more dangerous than any threat we faced in the 20th century, LTG Sanchez.)
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To: FreedomProtector

Is it the water of Hope,AR. ?


149 posted on 01/23/2008 8:37:12 PM PST by eyedigress
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To: FreedomProtector

Thanks.


150 posted on 01/23/2008 8:38:56 PM PST by spyone
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To: CurlyBill

“Are you kidding??? There was no bigger Duncan Hunter supporter than I was. He could not have endorsed a candidate farther from his core beliefs than he did. Can you honestly say that Huckabee and Hunter were politically compatible??? This is FREAKIN’ NUTS!!!”

Do you actually know the candidates positions? How would you have felt if he’d endorsed pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-sanctuary city, pro-gay America’s Mayor? How would you feel if he’d endorsed McAmnesty, or Romney (who all the candidates hate, and never had an opinion that stuck for more than an election cycle?) Huckabee is the only candidate I’ve heard, ever, refer to abortion as a holocaust (which it is). He supports traditional marriage and the 2nd ammendment. His most recent stance of his, admittedly, many stances on illegal immigration is “deport them all!” Which candidate, really, was Hunter expected to endorse?

I, being a small government type, am not interested much in Huckabee. But I admire that he stands by his beliefs strongly enough to say some of the most outlandish, this-guy-can’t-get-elected things and still get votes.


151 posted on 01/23/2008 8:40:54 PM PST by COgamer
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To: Recovering_Democrat

“I urge you to just look at the “issues” section of Mitt’s web site. What you’ve heard about Mitt being a liberal just isn’t so.”

What’s your point? Look at the issues section on any of the four remaining candidates’ website, you would think they were all rock-solid conservatives - if you didn’t look any further that is.


152 posted on 01/23/2008 8:41:39 PM PST by eclecticEel (oh well, Hunter 2012 anyone?)
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To: eyedigress

I hear Ambassador Keyes is still in the running. Doesn’t that sound thrilling?


153 posted on 01/23/2008 8:41:40 PM PST by eclecticEel (oh well, Hunter 2012 anyone?)
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To: CurlyBill

“Are you kidding??? There was no bigger Duncan Hunter supporter than I was. He could not have endorsed a candidate farther from his core beliefs than he did. Can you honestly say that Huckabee and Hunter were politically compatible??? This is FREAKIN’ NUTS!!!”

Fine, tell me who he should have endorsed then, give me a name.


154 posted on 01/23/2008 8:41:42 PM PST by eclecticEel (oh well, Hunter 2012 anyone?)
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To: FreedomProtector
The Intelligentsia of FR explains the correlation. :^)
155 posted on 01/23/2008 8:42:39 PM PST by eyedigress
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To: ExcellenceInAmericacom
Please. You weren't even on the ping list, pal.

Go pimp your blog somewhere else.
156 posted on 01/23/2008 8:43:10 PM PST by Antoninus (I survived Roe v. Wade. 40,000,000 of my generation did not.)
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To: spyone; anyone

“Well, rather than tell us how probably it was an informed decision on Hunter’s part, why don’t you educate us and post Hunter’s reasons for this decision?”

I don’t have anymore information than you do....being what Hunter wrote in his statement. I’m just saying people should take him at his word that he genuinely thinks Huckabee is the best man left standing. If you don’t agree that Huckabee is after giving it a rethink based upon Hunter’s endorsement, that is fine. Just don’t attack Hunter’s integrity or motives in his endorsement. If he was a great guy before, nothing has changed...he is still a great guy.

Of course, if you weren’t a Hunter supporter to begin with, this is actually a moot conversation. Now here is where I’m going to do some speculation....I suspect that the “most” outraged on this forum were never really Hunter supporters to begin with...the outrage is mock.

I am especially suspicious about those that now claim to have switched to Romney from Hunter. That just doesn’t compute in my mind. Actually, it doesn’t compute for Thompson supporters to switch to Romney either. However, I am a biased and bigoted Southern Baptist so I can be ignored as a dumb rube. I’m from Oklahoma, so that alone makes me automatically an idiot to be devotely ignored. I graduated from the University of Oklahom, a clearly inferior institution produces three toed people, etc. etc. Oh, spent time in the military (active & reserve/enlisted and commissioned service) so that also makes me an ignorant retch. I have been a professional government weenie (both at state and federal levels) so that makes me a lazy slug who drains off tax money to line my nest. I’m certain I have many more faults that I’m too stupid to list right now. Oh yes, I’m over 50 so my brain is addled. I can’t spell well either, so I definitely am an idiot. Please help me, I’m certain my deficent brain is forgetting something. Oh, one more, I moved to Missouri to work in national defense...more government tit....!


157 posted on 01/23/2008 8:45:31 PM PST by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: eclecticEel

Mr. Keyes is very smart. I like him. (I’m sure that will flame me)


158 posted on 01/23/2008 8:46:49 PM PST by eyedigress
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To: Rock&RollRepublican

It just dawned on me, why Hunter endorsed Huckabee:

Hunter doesn’t WANT to be a counterculture hero.

Hunter’s motivated by one thing, and one thing only: what is best for America.

He reads FR, and sees what his cult of personality has become since he left the race, and decided the only way to prevent his own name, from being the rallying cry which brings Hillary to office - is to endorse someone completely unlike himself.

That seems like a logical explanation.

Especially from someone like Duncan Hunter.


159 posted on 01/23/2008 8:47:19 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (So-called free trade advocates = "China Firsters")
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To: Sola Veritas

“Well pardon this biased & bigoted Southern Baptist, but having an anti-Romney attitude is just plain common sense to me - on many levels.”

But not on a religious level. I want to see a Baptist and a Mormon, or a Catholic and a Jew or a Muslim and a Jew agree and line up on policy, not which faith they practice. This identity, tribal politics has to stop. Look how they’re using the race thing in the democrat fight. Same insanity. It’s killing us. Look around!

Mormons are as good Americans and neighbors as any other religious group, and better than most. I don’t know how long you’ve been ‘Baptist’, but their history has some pretty strange behavior as well. Been there, seen some myself. The Baptists in Arkansas before, after and during the civil war were...oooo....Masons...run with that conspiracy.

One thing all churches have in common; they’re all full of saints and sinners. I know which category I fall in: The biggest one. I just hope Duncan Hunter and Mike Huckabee know what they are as well. I’m not electing a preacher.


160 posted on 01/23/2008 8:49:46 PM PST by AuntB (" DON'T LET THE PRESS PICK YOUR CANDIDATE!" Mrs. Duncan Hunter 1/5/08)
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