Posted on 02/26/2007 5:36:43 AM PST by bushfamfan
They say it is rare for someone to announce a presidential candidacy in the state of South Carolina. Unless of course, the candidate comes from the Palmetto State.
Duncan Hunter doesn't. His home is 2,288 miles to the west, where palm trees make us think of the natural beauty of the desert, not swamps.
They also say it makes more sense, if you're a White House hopeful, to focus your early money and energy on the two states that hold the nation's first presidential contests for both political parties – Iowa and New Hampshire. The idea is to visit so many town meetings you lose track, to practically own stock in the local coffee joints, and to talk the ear off every last voter and political operative you can hunt down.
You do all of this especially if you're a third-tier candidate, like our Republican congressman from Alpine, who desperately needs to make an early splash if he hopes to win the sort of national attention, campaign money and political momentum that might carry him through states with later primaries.
Since announcing around Halloween that he was considering a run for the GOP presidential nomination, Hunter has been to South Carolina at least four times, certainly more often than he has visited New Hampshire or Iowa. Late last month, he made his campaign official while in Spartanburg, S.C. And it was in South Carolina, North Carolina and South Dakota where he aired his first TV ads – commercials highlighting his belief that China is stealing American jobs and threatening U.S. security by “cheating” at trade.
(Excerpt) Read more at signonsandiego.com ...
Just some background info on Hunter and his outspoken nature to go where not many(I don't think any) Republicans go with their spineless nature.
Hunter on Abu Ghraib(courtesyhttp://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3128goss_hunter_block.html : )
Probably the single loudest obstructionist voice in the House of Representatives in support of the Cheneyac "Beastman" policy in Iraq has been Armed Services Committee chairman Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.). Hunter has been able to use his position to block any meaningful inquiry into the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and at every public opportunity, has railed against those who are demanding such an investigation. He even went after his GOP counterpart in the Senate, John Warner (Va.), for holding three hearings in two weeks on the scandal, practically accusing Warner of treason.
Under great public pressure, Hunter has since held one hearing, for part of one day, and has no intention of having any more. During debate on the Fiscal Year 2005 Defense Authorization bill, on May 19, Hunter declared, "We have had enormous publicity the last number of days about the mess at Abu Ghraib. I estimated we have probably devoted as much media attention to that mess involving now, as identified, some seven personnel, as we did to the Normandy invasion. And that is an imbalance. It is time to refocus." What did he want to refocus on? "The 135,000 great personnel doing their job in Iraq."
On June 14, when the committee took up a resolution of inquiry sponsored by some 40 Democrats, demanding the Pentagon be more forthcoming with documents relating to the prison scandal, Hunter placed the 6,000 pages of the report on the abuse and torture of prisoners filed by U.S. Army General Anthony Taguba (the Taguba Report) on a table at the head of the hearing room and railed at the Democrats, "Isn't that enough for you?"
Hunter on Guantanamo(courtesy http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050613-033125-4935r.htm:)
California Republican Duncan Hunter held a press conference to discuss the treatment of detainees at the island jail, and spent his opening statement going over a daily menu for prisoners that included oven-fried chicken and fresh fruit.
"This is what Osama bin Laden's bodyguards will eat several times a week. Lemon chicken, rice, broccoli, carrots, bread and two types of fruit," Hunter said, inviting a reporter to come eat with him.
Hunter was digging himself out of small hole he got into over the weekend when he said on a news program that the White House is divided over whether to close the jail.
"I think they've come to the conclusion, some members of the White House have come to the conclusion that the legend now, that the legend is different than the fact, and when that's the case you go with the legend that somehow Guantanamo has been a place of abuse and you close it down and you shorten the stories, you shorten the heated debate and you get it off the table and you move on," he said.
Like the passion, but reality is a....
... very fluid thing.
Hunter's a good man. I wish we could transplant his brain into Rudy Guilani's body.
Why did the Tribune see fit to include this when there's really no need to?
Not that I agree with the premise of evolution (macroevolution, to be specific), but I'm in the dark as to how this pertains to the rest of the article. It just stands out.
I wish we could wake up tomorrow and find the "two front runners" Rudy & Hellery - out of the race. I hope they knock each other out. Both of them are bad for America in my book.
GO DUNCAN HUNTER!!!
It doesn't. It's the AP.
That would be bad. Going from a fatherly, solid guy to looking like a interior decorator.
It doesn't pertain to anything about the article content. It's sole purpose is to effluviate the picture with something negative attacheable to Duncan Hunter. Any means to create a negative aura about him personally through direct or indirect means.
No media bias my A$$.
I don't see any mention of AP on that page. I just see UNION-TRIBUNE.
The original AP story on Hunter last week in SC spent the entire story lambasting one of his new appointees for being "mean" to an illeagal alien, and the rest of the story about this Jordan fellow and his evolution remarks. Calssic hit piece.
That's OK. Folks are learning to see through the filters. All mentions are important at this stage.
You could say that. Or, you could say that the article is pointing out that Duncan is concentraing on those voters that didn't turn out for Bush in 2000.
No that's NOT OK.
Don't forget that the largest voting block in this country is now the Independent/Swing voters. They have no such understanding or ability to see through what the media feeds them.
They act and react to what ever the media says. The whole reason the last 2 Presidential elections were so terribly close was due to this voting block.
Now, with two new voting age generations fresh out of College and School, very politically active and visibly liberal, the tide has turned against our hopes of a strong conservative agenda.
No, he is concentrating on ALL voters. He speaks loud and clear to me. And you can travel FR for years and never find a stauncher supporter of the current CIC than yours truly. My wife too, as well as many Bush supporters here. The difference is that Hunter, like Reagan, Hunter connects with just about any one who is conservative. Unlike McCain and Rudy, or even GWB. ANd if GWB took the border as seriously as Hunter, he'd be crowned King.
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