Until Hunter can actually raise his poll numbers, he is not the best candidate. You can scream at the top of your lungs that “Hunter is the best”, but Hunter is not winning in the market place of ideas. Campaigning is about WINNING votes, Hunter is not doing that. Coming up with the best list of conservative positions does not win elections. Hunter needs to find a few issues that resonates with people and then effectively articulate it. Screaming I am the most conservative by itself doesn’t win elections.
Listen to yourself. Then why don't we just all throw our hands up in disgust and acknowledge that we conservatives have lost the war. The liberals have won with an attitude like that. What you are inferring is that we must find candidates that will also attract those self professed conservatives with liberal tendencies in order to win any elections.
As for me, I'll stand and support THE most conservative candidate until he either wins or tells me he is bowing out of the race. I suggest other conservatives find a backbone and do the same. I have never seen such defeatism in the conservative ranks as I have seen here in FR since the campaigns have started. Many conservatives have lost their principles and values. They are becoming French.
In Dec. ‘03 Howard Dean was 43% in the polls and John Kerry was 13%.
Then three weeks before the primaries, Kerry was only 4%.
But yet some people still support various candidates based on poll #’s.
It’s early enough to support the BEST candidate - Duncan Hunter!
We can’t let polls or MSM brainwashing make our decision for us.
We the People stopped the amnesty bill and we can get Duncan Hunter elected.
His ideas and positions are fine; it’s just that the MSM has already selected the frontrunners for us, and he’s not one of them. If you disagree, tell us with which of his ideas you disagree.
Please note that of all of the candidates, the three members of the House (Hunter, Paul and Tancredo) are the three with the least visibility from the press.