Just announced:
WASHINGTON (CNN) – California Rep. Duncan Hunter, a former presidential candidate, announced Wednesday he is endorsing Mike Huckabee’s White House bid.
“I got to know Governor Huckabee well on the campaign trail,” Hunter said in a statement. “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,” he added. “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.”
Even though he polled in the lows single digits, this endorsement is huge. Hunter brings conservative credibility to the table where Mike has been hit hard with false accusations of liberalism. Hunter’s stand on China and integrity resonate throughout the nation. I expect a good boost from people that liked Hunter, but would not support him due to electability issues. Huck-a-boom 2.0 is coming.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Bret,
I remember when we Mittheads got all excited when Tancredo endorsed Mitt. It added up to almost nothing in the long run.
So why is this any different?
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Nice one for Huckabee. Much needed but I’m not sure I believe in Huck-a-boom 2.0. I didn’t like the 1.0 product compared to my other options. I’ll read the reviews before I buy this time…
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
So does Huckabee get immigration cred from Hunter now that Jim Gilchrist has been exposed? BTW, I think we’re all still waiting for an official distancing of Gilchrist from the Huckabee campaign. Are we to infer that Huckabee condones this behavior? http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=5482
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Duncan Hunter is a huge endorsement for Huckabee. Huckabee’s campaign was a little stagnent but this has to help out. Huckaboom is back! Two prominate immigration leaders have lined up behind Huck. Jim Gilchrist and now the man who should be President Duncan Hunter. I was a Hunter supporter but I will throw my support behind Huckabee. I am going to go donate to his campaign right now. I am in contact with all the Duncan Hunter Meetup groups, I can’t wait to go spread the news.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:05 pm
What a loser.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Interesting.
I do remember Hunter saying Mitt was a “no go” because the company he hasn’t worked for in over a decade recently did some defense contracting outsourcing to China.
That was just wacky mentality and I’m prone to think Hunter’s a little “off” in this logical capacities. So his endorsement of fiscally weak, hugest immigration flipper Huckabee makes total sense.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Huckaboom 2.0 will last until Saturday when he bombs out in Florida.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Huckaboom 2.0 will last until Tuesday when he bombs out in Florida.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Huh. I like Hunter, a lot. But I’ve seen no sign in Huckabee’s record or in anything he’s said or done on the campaign trail taht he’d be the one most likely to “strengthening national defense, constructing the border fence and meeting the challenge of China’s emergence as a military superpower.” Pretty much the reverse. Is there a secret Mike Huckabee that only the other candidates know?
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Cole – you are utterly ignorant.
Figure out who Jim Gilchrist really is and Hunter is a protectionist.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Good for Huckabee, now he has another 5 votes.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
That is really….. pitiful…..lame……sad…..
Just a few words that come to mind……
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:10 pm
How could Duncan Hunter ever support someone as dishonest and fake as Romeny. Thanks Congressman Hunter.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Wow – 5 more votes for Huckabee!
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
I would agree that given that Hunter never developed any support, his endorsement isn’t that valuable, but McCain would have taken it (especially as another member of the chorus touting his national-security credentials). He and Hunter have worked together for a long time in DC and I’m a little surprised that Hunter went w/ Huck instead. It’s a good pickup for Huck at a time when he could use some free-media.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
huckaboom 2.0? How great was 1.0? The guy can only get so many supporters in the evangelical vote? He’s just not that popular, and Duncan Hunter had what support? Ann COulter? Shes in ROmney’s camp now, and I can assure you that Duncan didn’t win her favor by endorsing Huckabee
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I don’t know. You hold your nose? You pretend that black is white and up is down? But apparently lots of GOPers have quaffed the Romney-koolaid Cole, or so the Mittwits constantly remind us. It is an index of the weakness of our once Grand Old Party.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Cole, am I sensing some sarcasm from your camp, or is it just me?
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Jim Gilchrist is the founder of the Minutemen and Duncan Hunter is the greatest politician ever. Hunter like Huckabee is someone who cares about the American worker and someone who does not just look out for Corporations who export jobs (Mitt). Great pick up for Huckabee…great! RayinNH, you always resort to attacking the person.
Typical Romney supporter.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Stick that in your pipe Ann Coulter. A true Conervative endorsing another true Conervative.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:20 pm
More pathological than typical I should think. There must be a Mittwitt boot camp where they train their noisy partisans to call people names for want of argument, and to swear that anyone but Romney will doom the GOP for want of genuine support for their hapless candidate.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:21 pm
“I don’t know. You hold your nose? You pretend that black is white and up is down? But apparently lots of GOPers have quaffed the Romney-koolaid Cole, or so the Mittwits constantly remind us. It is an index of the weakness of our once Grand Old Party.”
This maybe the best comment I have ever read on this site. Funny and true.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:22 pm
If Hunter’s endorsement meant anything, he would still be in the race.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:22 pm
you know you Rombots would be glad if Hunter endorsed Mitt. Just because he didn’t, now it is sour grapes.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:24 pm
I’ve always maintained that Huckabee is more conservative than Romney. This endorsement supports that view. Look at the exit polls.
McCain does well with Democrats and moderates.
Romney does well with moderate conservatives.
Huckabee does well with conservatives.
Despite what the pundits might tell you, that is the truth.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Duncon Hunter was respected by many other conservatives. This endorsement further proves that Mike Huckabee is a true conservative and a great leader.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:26 pm
what a loser. seriously. he endorsed huckabee–mr open borders!
and ua, no sour grapes here. Duncan hunter’s endorsement is largely irrelevant.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Granted. Now he needs to raise cash fast. Or for want of cash somehow repeat his Iowa miracle all across the South. Can he do it!?
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
“what a loser. seriously. he endorsed huckabee–mr open borders!”
Mitt people name calling again. Sounds like sour grapes to me.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Are we sure we are not seeing Huckabee 3.0? Perhaps 2.5? 1.0 was before the FRC’s conference, when he was virtually nowhere. 2.0 was his surge post-FRC conference until his Iowa win. Then, since Iowa, he has poured out plans and policies where he did 180 degree shift (reads flip-flopping), and where he has struggled to win another primaries. That is what I considered as a version of at least 2.5.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Isn’t it strange how everything Romney touches—or in this case, founds, organizes, and maintains a financial stake within, i.e. Bain Capital—becomes viciously anti-American? Take the UN lobbyists who work in Romney’s campaign for example:
http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff200.htm
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Good for Huckabee. Take Hunter’s 1%, and good luck with that. If Hunter and his ideas were that amazing, he would not have had to leave the race after dismal performances across the country. I live in Northern San Diego County, and I had not heard of Hunter at all until he joined the race for POTUS. Why would his endorsement matter to someone in FL, when someone in his own backyard has never heard of him?? And I listen to AM talk radio all day too, so it isn’t like I wasn’t paying any attention. The truth of the matter is Chuck Norris will bring in more votes for Huckabee than Duncan Hunter will.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:33 pm
#31 – Are you still on the Bain Capital thing?? Get over it.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Cole,
I “always” resort to attacking the person … really? “Always,” huh?
Jim Gilchrist has been completely discredited and the Minuteman Organization, ALIPAC have completely distanced themselves from Mr. Gilchrist. He has apparently lost track of what he initially stood for.
Duncan Hunter is a protectionist and there is no denying that. Protectionist policies do NOT work. They sound good on paper but they simply don’t work. We live in a global economy and we must be willing to find ways to be competitive outside of protectionist policies.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Some lines just spoof themselves.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:35 pm
CV,
You’re quickly developing some of the most knee-jerk anti-Romney rhetoric around here. Congrats. That’s not easy.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I’ll bet that this isn’t a big deal. I thought Tancredo’s endorsement would be big, but it really hasn’t done anything for Mitt. I think that really the only endorsements that seem to be making a big difference are the ones that haven’t been given yet! Crist would be important I’m sure, as would J. Bush. Arnie might be also, but more for moderates than for conservatives. I actually think a Fred endorsement would be a big deal, but I just don’t see it happening during the primaries. Who knows though, it may help. I like Dunc. I don’t like Mike.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I’ve actually been anti-Hunter since I first heard him speak in person at the First in the Nation National Brunch in Milford, NH. His protectionist policies scared me to death. I like his immigration stance and his family’s military service. I just think he is extremely weak on fiscal matters and that is what matters in this election.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I can vouch for that. You’re really quite bitter and it amuses me. Or maybe you’re just intellectually lazy. Whatevez. Your readers can decide that issue for themselves.
Yeah. Well, so is Romney. Romney’s Ron Kaufman—the top lobbyist who runs, er, I mean, advises Romney’s campaign—is all about fair trade (i.e. protectionism). See:
http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff200.htm
From the article:
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:40 pm
CV #39,
So because Ron Kaufman believes something, Romney must also?
Logical fallacies abound with you.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:42 pm
No, thank you. I shall harp on this finely tuned string until these evil people stop harming working Americans and our national security, and until Romney himself repudiates them or puts a stop to them. We all have our row to hoe. Let me get back to mine.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Civic – thanks for your input.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
One thing I have learned from Rush Limbaugh, is that you can’t change other people; you can help them change their opinions, but they are who they are. You can only change yourself. So, pointing out that some of these posts are undignified and impolite is not expected to change the writers’ behavior. But please, if it applies to you, understand that the gratuitously insulting comments are not persuasive.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:44 pm
“We all have our row to hoe. Let me get back to mine.”
This was too dang funny. thanks CV
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Romney does believe it you purblind partisan. Kaufman wrote the misguided Romney-proposal I blog about here:
http://dotan.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/romney-proposes-a-trans-national-regulatory-cartel-and-in-an-inversion-worthy-of-orwell-calls-it-the-reagan-zone-of-economic-freedom/
Read it. Or follow the link to Romney’s proposal Doesn’t it sound like Dutko? It should. Romney uses the same language! I wonder how many other Romney proposals are ghost-written by belly-crawling UN lobbyists.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Gov. Huckabee is not my first choice to be honest. But his supporters sure are. I really like the people who like Huckabee that I’ve met online and off.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
#28 We are working on that. Pay attention to the front page money ticker for our progress in the next several days.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:50 pm
#35 – CV, you are an idiot. Grow up will you.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
CV #45: Romney does believe it you purblind partisan.
I love that you’re always calling Romney supporters names, and then crying about it when someone returns the favor.
Are you making a conscious effort to be unpleasant?
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Don’t you mean hypocrite? Can’t you mittwits even get your name calling straight?
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
But you are a purblind partisan. That’s not name calling, that’s just an observation. And you seem quite proud of it so what’s your problem?
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:54 pm
#50 – No, I meant idiot. Stop proving my point.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
CV #51, why is civil discourse so difficult for you? Do you think you’re persuasive when you act like this?
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:56 pm
OK. Cool. My favorite mittwit insult was to be called a “son of perdition.”
Who even talks like that?
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Cole is right. This is a huge endorsement. Huckabee was a positive canididate in the field, and is respected by a lot of voters (even if they support another canidate). On the other hand, Tancredo had his negative moments. This is a big deal.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:59 pm
CV,
I am done even reading your trolling posts. So forgive me while I wipe the excrement off of myself after having stooped to your level. Good riddance.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:00 pm
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:00 pm
sorry, I meant Hunter was a positive canidate in the field, although “Huckabee” is also.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I messed up the formatting in #57. The second blockquote is not a quote but me:
Let us turn your charge around. Do you think that your carping, caviling whining, and sniveling is terribly persuasive?
If you want inquiry, I am at your service—pose a question; if it interests me I’ll pursue it. If you start name calling etc. I am going to infer that you are a rube and treat you like one, and respond to you at that level, the level where the mittwits generally dwell. See how that works?
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
I guess some of us aren’t in our offices. (Yikes.)
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:04 pm
CV #21: There must be a Mittwitt boot camp where they train their noisy partisans to call people names for want of argument.
CV #39: You’re really quite bitter and it amuses me. Or maybe you’re just intellectually lazy. Whatevez.
CV #57: If you start name calling etc. I am going to infer that you are a rube and treat you like one.
Wow.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
In each case that was responding to a mittwit who was calling a Huckabee supporter some insulting name or other. You behave badly, I infer that you are rube and respond in kind. See how that works?
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Errata for #62: In each case that was ME responding to a mittwit who was calling a Huckabee supporter some insulting name or other. You behave badly, I infer that you are rube and respond in kind. See how that works?
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:08 pm
By the way, [s]Murph, I just provided you conclusive proof that a UN lobbyist who works for Unions and environmental groups to thwart free trade policies etc. is writing policy proposals for Romney.
I wonder why you elected not to pursue that line of inquiry? Why are we here with you carping about ancillary issues like my sometimes unfortunate word choices etc.?
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:09 pm
And I used to respect Hunter…
Anyway Brett, Huck-a-boom 2.0 is an impossible occurrence. Huck will not win in Florida and any wins on Super Duper Mega Giga Ultra Tuesday will be from Southern states where Huckabee is a favorite son of sorts and will be written of as such. Not to mention the delegates won by Romney and/or McCain on 2/5 will most certainly dwarf any Huck manages to scrape.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:15 pm
I don’t think this endorsement will end up influencing much, but the comments on this post are of even less substance. Very distasteful, and some of the people who respond to garbage posts can be just as purile.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Hunter did it to snub Mitt for something he did not do. It’s a subtle bickering on his part, IMHO. It’s disappointing however, I hope it will hurt McCain more than it does for Mitt anyway. I feel optimistic for Mitt anyway. GO MITT!
By the way, Juckabee is a joke, sorry to say… He is a bigot, constantly bashing all other religions other than his own… I do not want him as the president that have no respect for other religions except for his own. He just cannot stay away from whisper campaigns. No more Juckabee! He will make a great one man show political comedian, indeed! If he needs more money, he ought consider it. He is too much of a bigotry. He sucks money from churchgoers for his own gain. He knew he is not making it yet… he is stuffing money in his pockets! Shame on him… cannot separate church and state.
GO MITT! He has no skeltons in his closet. He is wanting you to ask him about anything and he will be more than happy to clarify things with you. Don’t listen to anyone else except from him… He knows what he wants… He will make a great president and he will make us proud! GO MITT!
GO MITT!
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:21 pm
CV #64,
Honestly? You want to know why we’re not persuing that line of inquiry?
I just got finished going back and forth with you in another thread about the Big Dig, judicial appointments, Chinese companies, etc. In every single case you either distort the facts, get hung up on the irrelevant, or decline to follow the line of inquiry. You accuse people of being whiny, carping, sniveling, purblind rubes.
For all I know, you may have some good points with Romney’s stance on trade. But it’s not worth digging through the constant spam of piss and vinegar you spread all over this blog. I’ve never met such a consistently venomous poster on this blog, and I’ve been here a long time.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
as far as the huckabee conservative thing, I think there are a lot of people nowadays who think that conservative means speaking with a southern accent, loving the bible, loving guns, and hating gays. its totally gotten away from the true definition (thank you george w bush) so if thats what being a conservative is, then huck is, and i’m not. but we’d just be arguing definitions.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I have never accused you of anything. I merely offered you my value-neutral observations in the spirit of mutual trust and sincere good will. How you elect to respond to my generously offered gestures of comradely affection is your decision, not mine. (Look! I’m channeling Romney!—I’m not going bitterly negative, no, I’m merely “contrasting” myself with the other candidates.)
Thank you for allowing me to make a point about Romney’s bitterly negative advertising.
Then why not respond to someone else? Just how persuasive do you think you are to me?
[Do you see how irritating it is when someone says black is white and white is black?---like, say, Romney? Reflect on that, [s]Murph, should you ever wonder about Romney’s astronomically high negatives.]
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
The only endorsement that did anything was Oprah, for Obama…fine it was a HUGE pickup and Huckabee is NOW going to win the nomination…believe what you want to, but it doesn’t make you less homerish…a little reality is always helpful. Mitt has by far the most endorsements from members in congress, and i don’t believe that it has done anything…at the end it’s the candidate plain and simple. Did Pat Robertson’s endorsement make Guiliani Pro-Life??? same argument for why Hunters’ can’t make Huckabee conservative.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:33 pm
I just got finished going back and forth with you in another thread about the Big Dig, judicial appointments
Stop right there!
Mitt’s reform of the judicial nomination process was ultimately a real success of, er, affirmative action. First he created an automated system to outsource the decision-making to a committee blinded as to race and gender. As this buck-passing system returned lily-white males, Mitt had to override it in order to appoint more diverse judges — including world-famous judge Tuttman! :^)
Her judiciousness wound up sentencing some folks in WA to death.
Oh, and speaking of judiciousness, we shouldn’t forget how Mitt handled his duty of reviewing clemency appeals — by doing nothing at all! This wound up costing a decorated Iraq War vet a job with the police thanks to a trumped-up charge of assault when the guy was 13!
When reviewing Mitt’s record, you laugh so hard you cry for joy at not being a denizen of MA.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:33 pm
i dont get the endorsement, but its his choice. in my mind he DQs himself by his rationale about bain and mitt. the same as he would have dq’d himself if he had said ‘well i dont support rudy because he was mayor of new york, and roger clemens did steroids, and rudy roots for the yankees, so obviously that factor alone disqualifies him’ the china/bain comments make him look dumb
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Fascinating. Are you arguing for a candidate or are you trying to convert me to some religion?
Don’t we sort of want people to deliberate about issues and arrive at their own conclusions? Hence: the legitimacy of democracy?
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
How much does this help Huckabee win Florida? Not at all. How much does this help his conservative credibility? Immensely. Hunter is such an honorable man. He didn’t have to endorse a guy whose chances of winning are almost 0% now. He could have pandered to get a job with a more likely winner. Kudos to Hunter. Too bad no one paid him any attention in the campaign.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Don’t we sort of want people to deliberate about issues and arrive at their own conclusions?
That won’t fly when you’re attempting to create a personality cult. The only issues are whether we praise him before each meal, or before and after. Whether speaking with Romney critics can be tolerated or not. Whether endorsement of a Romney opponent is sign of pathological anti-Mormon bigotry or some other form of deeper evil. And so on and so forth.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:51 pm
#67: A recent poll by Survey USA showed 20% of Republicans will vote for the Democrat or stay home if Romney is the nominee. The best Romney can realistically hope for Vice President, although Huckabee seems determined to stop him from getting that.
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:19 pm
This is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ridiculous!!!!!
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:41 pm
amen Brett, Hunter was my #1 before Fred, and Huck has been making clear of late that he is a conservative despite some of his rhetoric.
more later
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:11 pm
how long has it been since we have seen an endorsement (that is not a pastor) for Huckleberry? well, it’s about time…thata boy, huck.
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Look like Gamecock is now on Huckabee’s boat. Wow!
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Romney looks to be gaining ground in Florida. Go Mitt!
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Duncan’s endorsement is just what most endorsements are and that is talking pieces for the pundits and press. If Duncan literally goes out and campaigns for Mike then he has something, otherwise it will be forgotten by next week.
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Wow, Hunter’s credibility just went south.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:00 pm
#79, who are you and what have you done with Gamecock???
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:35 pm
See what Jim Cramer has to say about Mitt (very important!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoBKgmnVkrc
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:51 pm
#41 – You sound like a communist. Jeez.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:59 pm
#69 – joe c – you said: as far as the huckabee conservative thing, I think there are a lot of people nowadays who think that conservative means speaking with a southern accent, loving the bible, loving guns, and hating gays. its totally gotten away from the true definition (thank you george w bush) so if thats what being a conservative is, then huck is, and i’m not. but we’d just be arguing definitions.
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joe c – thank you for this comment. I do believe you are right. Many folks think that if you Southern, you must be conservative. I have nothing against Southerners — I like the South and people in the South have hospitality down like no one else, but being Southern does not equal (=) conservative.
joe c – I would love to hear your definition of a true conservative.
and P.S. as far as Hunter’s endorsement of Huckabee, all I can say is that my respect for Hunter has gone way down the toilet after this endorsement. It’s clear he hasn’t done his homework on Mike Huckabee and his loathsome, pitiful, miserable support for illegal immigration when he was the governor of Arkansas (actions, by the way, DO speak louder than words and switched policies).
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Who knew that Common Sense had moved on from pushpolling to blog commenting?
January 24th, 2008 at 12:23 am
This has to be a bad rumor. Duncan Hunter always came off as having more sense than this, you know, being more of a straight talker and rational thinker. But maybe there was something off there that explains the low level of support he could never rise above. Who knows. So Duncan Hunter admired Huckabee all along? Who knew. I guess it’s of little significance anyways.
January 24th, 2008 at 12:25 am
This was posted on the Duncan Hunters Grassroots site:
Duncan Hunter is an honorable man who got to know another honorable man during the campaign. He discovered what alot of conservatives here in Arkansas already knew about Mike Huckabee.
It is a shame that people who claim to support Duncan Hunter will just as quickly make harsh pronouncements about his judgement like they some how are smarter and have more insight into what is really going on in the political world than Duncan Hunter himself.
I supported Duncan Hunter as my first choice for President. When he did not file in Arkansas, I threw my support to Mike Huckabee. I never once made a negative post about Duncan Hunter, and in fact regularly posted his victories.
I greives me to see know-nothings and the so-called conservative press slander mislead and lie about Mike Huckabee. These are the same people who claim now to be fans of Duncan Hunter, but never once made a blog post in support of him, they never once made a positive statement about him on the radio or tv until it served them to use Duncan Hunter as a club on Mike Huckabee.
As first a Hunter supporter, and now a Huckabee supporter I will be the first to admit that Huckabee is not as conservative as Duncan Hunter, but he is cut from the same mold. In truth, Mike Huckabee is far far far more conservative than any candidate left in the race. Mr Hunter knew that, and was courageous enough to take a stand for that fact in spite of likely slander that will follow for it. Therefore, in that respect, Duncan Hunter is apparently a far more honorable man than most of his supporters.
Perhaps when you get a few more years to gain wisdom and understanding that matches your God given brilliance and intellect, then you will understand why Duncan Hunter endorsed Mike Huckabee.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:40 am
Now I’m expecting Alan Keyes to drop out and endorse McCain. Things just don’t make sense anymore.