Why Duncan Hunter Endorsed Mike Huckabee

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[dan1123]

Hunter has taken an endorsement with limited value (due to his limited following) and managed to disillusion many supporters that stuck it out with him by going with a candidate that seems to be at odds with his signature issue, illegal immigration

Wouldn't that be all of them?

[Churchillspirit]

Is there ANYBODY who enter the race right now and appeal to the majority of conservatives?

[Little_GTO]

I’d loved to have been a fly on the wall of some of those Motel 6’s and heard the conversations about Romney between the Huckster and Hunter.

Subtle but low.

Maybe you should go refine your skills over at DU.

[spectre]

Jeff Sessions or Haley Barbour?

[txlurker]

Here is just a little information that I have found about the ties to the Chinese and Iraq that Hunter was alluding to in his Hedgecock interview.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain_Capital
Bain Capital LLC is a Boston, Massachusetts-based private equity firm founded in 1984 by Mitt Romney. Romney was the Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. In addition to Romney, the firm was also founded by two other partners from the consulting firm Bain & Company: T. Coleman Andrews III and Eric Kriss. Bain Capital was originally conceived as a combined equity start-up and leveraged buyout fund, an innovative strategy at the time.

On September 28, 2007, Bain and the Chinese networking company Huawei Technologies acquired 3Com for $2.2 billion in cash. [7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei_Technologies

The United States alleged that in 2000 Huawei installed a telecommunications system in Iraq, which would have been in violation of U.N. sanctions. However, China’s foreign minister Tang Jiaxuan denied that Chinese enterprises and corporations assisted Iraq in building the fiber optic cables for air defense, and the United States did not accuse Chinese workers of building fiber optic cables specifically.

[txlurker]

My guess is that Hunter knows a lot more then he can say publicly.

Like what? He is being promised a Cabinet position? Or you suggesting that Romney is corrupt?

[dforest]

Fred Thompson maybe?

[highball]

I agree....what I got out of his reasoning was that he was ticked that he sent Romney memos about his concerns..even brought it up at the debates and was basically ignored. So now he is “getting him back” by supporting Huckabee. I don’t think the idea of not doing business with China is feasible.

Sure seems that way.

Very disappointing interview. Losing a lot of respect for him.

[txlurker]

“Romney still retains an investment in the Cayman fund through a trust. Campaign disclosure forms show the investment paid him more than $1 million last year in dividends, interest, and capital gains.”

So? He isn't allowed to make capital gains?

[Perchant]

Duncan thinks Huckabee can be “trained” to become a conservative? When has a liberal man of Huckabee’s age ever had the liberalism trained out of him?

Didn’t Huckabee once say that Hunter would make a perfect defense secretary? There you have it.

[WalterSkinner]

..he said on another interview today that he isn’t looking for a cabinet position

[Hostage]

I don’t see any increase in the number of seasoned Freepers that support Romney.

I have seen alot of Rombots try and run propaganda on FR and other places over the past several months. Mostly I have seen them plant false stories aimed at competing candidates from the Republican Party. They might as well be democrats.

I have noticed a few recently born Freepers that praise and hail Romney on everything.

But mostly I have seen Romney supporters carry out tactics that I would expect to see come from the Clinton camp. These tactics are distasteful and they have been confirmed by other candidates including Thompson and Huckabee.

I believe Romney’s support is an inch deep. It is paid for support, paid for endorsements and paid for media coverage.

Romney has no principles. He schtick is “Vote for me because I am perfect”.

[stentorian conservative]

So...who’s left?

Where is it written that he had to endorse anyone? Sorry, but "that was the less painfull choice" mentality just doesn't work for me. If he's wrong for the Country, then he's wrong for the Country. Period.

[tortdog]

From that article:

>“If you are president in 2009 and Congress brings you a bill to outlaw smoking nationwide in public places, would you sign it?” Matthews asked.

>“I would, certainly would. In fact, I would, just like I did as governor of Arkansas, I think there should be no smoking in any indoor area where people have to work,”

So Huckabee is saying he wants this to be federal law. You’d have to find Romney claiming he wants a federal law to bring him up to that level.

These laws should be set at the state/local level - not by the feds.

[txlurker]

..he said on another interview today that he isn’t looking for a cabinet position

Okay....maybe he isn't looking for one...but would he take one if offered? Or could he want to be VP? If he was the conservative that some seem to think he is...then why go for Huckabee? He is not a conservative.

[spectre]

Huckabee probably convinced Hunter he would pardon Ramos and Compean if elected. What he didn't say, was he'd also pardon the 20 million Illegals already in this country. I believe he would try it.

OTOH, it doesn't matter since Huckabee is on his way back to Arkansas with his tail between his legs.

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[WalterSkinner]

..I am very disappointed, but it doesn't change my view of DH--he is still a great patriot, his questionable choice notwithstanding

IMHO, I do not think the governor will make it past Super Tuesday

[mimaw]

I heard Hucks comments to a reporter this morning and it was a crack about Romneys money. I thought it was just democrats that hated the rich. Than I heard Hunters cracks about Bain and it caused me to conclude there is some envy there. Otherwise why bring it up? That’s what I meant about conversations between Hunter and Huck. If Hunter finds Huckabee more redeemable than Romney so be it, I don’t buy it.

[colorado tanker]

Maybe it’s because you can come up with similar nicknames for them. Huck and Dunk.

[colorcountry]

I hope you’re right and conservatives can see through the slick veneer.

However, the past FR polls showed Romney with a core group of 200 Freepers who have always supported Romney http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=206;results=1 Granted many of them had multiple screennames or were n00bs.

In the latest poll, fully 1/2 of the Fredheads said they were switching to Romney, that swelled the ranks of Romney supporters to 1052. http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=214;results=1

I can’t believe that Freepers think Romney is the preferable candidate. I’d rather have McCain or Huckabee. But then I think Mitt is a slick, moneyed, flipster, who is practiced in the art of “bait and switch” and he’s delusional on top of all that.