CONTACT: Gary Becks (619) 334-1655, dlhunter08@yahoo.com
San Diego, CA - - - As Americans all across the country celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, Presidential candidate, and current Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, Congressman Duncan Hunter wanted to remind our nation to also remember to thank our men and women in uniform for their sacrifice and service:
"For the past six years, our nation has been involved in a long battle against those who seek to destroy us. Many brave Americans have fallen during this time, and more than a million have served their country in the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan .
"Their sacrifice for our nation is added to the long and distinguished list of those who served their country in battlefields all across the world from Bunker Hill to Gettysburg , from Bellawood to Normandy , from Chosin Reservoir to Khe Sanh, from the rooftops of Fallujah to Kabul , Mosul , Tikrit, and a thousand other places of danger.
"On this Thanksgiving, we express our gratitude to God, for not only giving us this blessed land of freedom, but also the brave men and women willing to leave the security of their homes and families to protect us while we are in our homes with our families.
"On this Thanksgiving Day, the Hunter family will also give thanks for another special blessing, the return of Marine Captain Duncan D. Hunter from Afghanistan . We welcome him home with open arms and a thankful heart. May God bless those who serve and may God continue to bless America ."
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Bendinelli: Who is Duncan Hunter? A look at a candidate lacking in sidewalk chalk Ryan Bendinelli Issue date: 11/29/07 Section: Opinion
Over the next two months, a large amount of media attention will be going to the "first tier" candidates of each political party. These are the candidates who have raised money, signed up a core group of supporters and, most importantly, yet also ironically, managed to gain attention in the media. On both sides of the aisle there are still candidates who have served their country to the best of their abilities and are offering up their own ideas and talents to serve in the highest office.
One of these candidates is Congressman Duncan Hunter, a representative from Southern California. First and foremost, this is not meant to be an endorsement or rejection of Congressman Hunter. However, as the evening news and daily papers will undoubtedly saturate voters with information on Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, it seems a fitting role to find an alternative topic of discussion.
Hunter was elected to Congress in 1980. Since that time he has served on the House Armed Services Committee, acting as chairperson from 2002-2006. The committee is responsible for all legislation dealing with national security and defense.
Hunter's experience on the committee has given him more hands-on experience in dealing with the war in Iraq than most other candidates for president right now. Similar to John McCain, whose sons are enlisted in the military, Hunter's son will be returning for a third tour of duty in Iraq. His Web site contains a video explaining his ideas for preparing Iraqis to take responsibility for their own security.
Hunter believes that a primary element of the United States' national security policy should be a stronger missile defense program. He has also been one of the strongest advocates for more intense border security. The Congressman was a sponsor of the bill that established the border fence project last year.
A major difference between Hunter and many of his rivals for the Republican nomination is his view of abortion and the role of federal judges. Fred Thompson, the candidate endorsed by the National Right to Life, does not support a Constitutional Amendment that would outlaw abortion. However, Hunter fully supports this measure.
Furthermore, Hunter is much more blunt than most in his judicial philosophy. Many take the stance on abortion that their chief concern is judicial activism. Hunter promise son his Web site, "I will not appoint judges who do not believe that the unborn are precious and should be protected."
This e-mail came from info@gohunter08.com, an official person with the campaign for Duncan Hunter.
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HUNTER TO HILLARY CLINTON DEBATE PLANT: "THANKS, SEND MORE!"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 29, 2007
CONTACT: Gary Becks (619) 334-1655, dlhunter08@yahoo.com
San Diego, CA - - - GOP Presidential candidate Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) today sent the following response to Senator Hillary Clinton who planted a member of her campaign staff in the audience to ask a question at the Republican debate last evening in Florida. The retired military general, who announced during his question that he was gay, asked the candidates about their position on the Pentagon's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy regarding homosexuals serving in the military.
November 29, 2007
Dear Senator Clinton,
Regarding the "plant", retired Brig. Gen. Keith H. Kerr, that you sent to ask me the question at the CNN-YouTube debate last night in Florida …
Hunter asks Bush for China policy meeting The Hill ^ | 11/29/07 | Roxana Tiron
Posted on 11/29/2007 3:50:18 PM PST by pissant
Presidential hopeful Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) is pressing President Bush to call a meeting with several congressional committees to discuss policy towards China in the aftermath of Beijing’s refusal to allow a Navy aircraft carrier and its accompanying ships to dock in Hong Kong last week.
Hunter, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, asked Bush to convene a meeting “as soon as possible” with the chairmen and ranking members of Armed Services and the House panels on Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Defense Appropriations.
In a letter to Bush on Thursday, Hunter also asked the administration to invest as part of the upcoming fiscal 2009 budget “in technologies to ensure our military remains prepared to meet the challenges that we will face with a China that has become more aggressive militarily.”
Hunter, who is not seeking reelection to Congress next year, called for an increased investment in submarine production, the development of modem deep strike platforms, including new bomber aircraft, and enhanced electronic warfare systems.
The Pentagon issued a formal protest to China's military on Wednesday over its refusal to allow the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier strike group to dock in Hong Kong over the Thanksgiving holiday. Military families flew to Hong Kong on their own expense to meet their family members, but never had a chance to do so. The Pentagon’s protest was not a diplomatic communication, but was issued as part of U.S.-China military exchanges, according to Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell.
China’s visiting foreign minister told Bush that the incident was the result of a misunderstanding.
Two days before the Chinese denied access to the Kitty Hawk, Hunter said, China also refused to allow two U.S. Navy minesweepers seeking refuge from a storm to make port in Hong Kong, “leaving them no option but to face the dangerous weather in the open sea.”
“As these two incidents clearly demonstrate, China is embarking on a new more confrontational relationship with the U.S. and we need to be prepared,” Hunter wrote on Thursday.
Once again, NWCL has scooped the entire Blogosphere with another fine essay by Mr. Madison. This is a good one!
Alexander J. Madison - August 16, 2007 ‘Those dirty communist bastards’. This phrase and similarly worded curses are being uttered by more Americans each day as the headlines in normally apologist media outlets are documenting case after case of Chinese malfeasance this summer of 2007.
Headlines such as “More Tainted Chinese Toothpaste found”, “Mattel: 9M More Chinese-made Toys Recalled”, “Melamine in Pet Food may not be Accidental”, and more ominously “China Warns America It May Sell US Treasury Bonds” are perking up American ears. Nothing rattles the average American consumer like stories of beloved family pets dropping like flies, or Polly Pockets and Little People posing a danger to our real little people. All those bloody knuckles caused by poorly made socket wrenches are nothing compared to liver failure and lead poisoning. US consumers are rattled…and angry.
The investor class is also worried. As our political leaders gingerly attempt to address China’s currency devaluation and trade surplus with our country, powerful communist apparatchiks (yes, I know –it’s a Russian term) are hinting at a US treasury bill dump, a dump that could have severe financial consequences. China has pegged the value of the yuan to the dollar. Instead of floating in a natural balance against the dollar like other major currencies, this peg allows the Chinese imports to our shores to maintain their relative ‘cheapness’, not only here, but on the world market. It is China’s stated goal to leapfrog the US as the #1 economic powerhouse in the world, and undercutting US manufacturing is a very comfortable part of that plan. It has given them a staggering $233 billion trade surplus with the USA in 2006, a total that will easily be surpassed in 2007. But more likely than not, US negotiators will be reigned in and the status quo will continue, for now.
But how did we get here? Why have politicians and business leaders in the US allowed us to arrive at a place where a communist enemy holds such leverage over our economy? A place where a few words uttered by a ‘respected’ Chinese academic can rattle our markets? A place where we have allowed substandard food and materials onto our shores for years? And for that matter, a place where we pretend there is really only one China – Taiwan being a renegade province and such? The full answers are well beyond the scope of this article, but the short version is this: greed and a lack of strategic thinking.
The free-trade lobby will tell us that opening China up to free trade will bring about the desired political reforms and lead to a ‘partnership’. The problem with this argument is that it has been made for the last 25 years and relations have not improved, rather, they have deteriorated. But the siren song of the Chinese ‘comfort women’ is too much for big business to resist. “Come, build your new plant in China. We have cheap labor and negligible regulations…Oh, and by the way, we will be co-owners with you and you will need to share your manufacturing secrets…but hey, you will still make more money.”
Unfortunately, President Bush has his hands full in Iraq and Afghanistan, and is hesitant to tackle the problem. His legacy is tied to success in the muslim world now and a financial showdown with China is not in the making. The majority democrat party is certainly yapping about China (dead pets, you know), but their leading candidate was bought and paid for with communist dollars.
Scanning the political horizon for 2008, there is only one man standing that vows to put an end to this entire charade, Duncan Hunter. Duncan Hunter is, and has been, a Dragon Hunter.
Just as his mentor, Ronald Wilson Reagan, decided to change the rules for how the USA dealt with the Soviet Union - from détente to “we win, they lose”- Hunter is demanding a new set of unmarked playing cards for this high stakes poker match with China. The underlying philosophy shared by Reagan and Hunter is unabashed anti-communism. Whether it is the Lenin/Stalin model or that of Mao Tse-Tung, a communist deserves nothing short of defeat in Hunter’s view. Having entered office in 1980 with the Gipper, Hunter was instrumental in the House of Representatives for strong-arming through Reagan’s tough, anti-communist agenda. And being a Vietnam combat veteran who fought Chinese backed stooges, Congressman Hunter has several lifetimes’ worth of disdain for such an ideology. That disdain was only reinforced in the aftermath of our withdrawal from Vietnam, in the skull-filled killing fields and the rat infested ‘re-ducation’ camps. A brief China-Vietnam war in the late 1970s did not change his view of either side.
Duncan Hunter’s record of opposition to China has been as consistent as his opposition to abortion. He was nearly successful in stopping Permanent Most Favored Nation status from being gifted to China by Bill Clinton and the US congress in 2000. As Hunter mentioned in an August 13 interview on the Free Republic website:
“All of the Senators presently running for president, including Mr. Thompson, Brownback and McCain voted for Permanent Most Favored Nation status for Communist China, which I strongly oppose. I voted against PMFN with Red China because the Chinese are clearly using US trade dollars to buy ships, warplanes and missiles, some of which are clearly targeted on American forces and interests”.
Based on that statement, it is obvious Hunter does not use the bleeding heart, liberal argument to oppose China. He uses clear eyed realism centered around the defense of our nation. And his opposition did not start in 2000, and it has only intensified since. In 1998, Hunter sponsored a bill to strip away all satellite and satellite technology sales to China. President Clinton even signed it, due in part to pressure from the scandal investigations looking at laundered Chinese money in democrat coffers.
In June 2000, Hunter introduced the Nuclear Secrets Safety Act in response to continued Chinese espionage and weak procedures for securing classified information in our research labs and facilities. His consistent anti-China voting record shows that he opposed the sale of US ‘dual-use’ technology equipment to China (including supercomputers) and fought to give the Pentagon veto power over such sales. He voted to deny US participation in cooperative research and development, and to prohibit Red China from ‘ownership and control’ of any businesses involved in defense related systems or services. For decades, Hunter has supported robust arms sales to Taiwan, including missile defenses. Through the late 1990s, it was Duncan Hunter who led the fight against allowing China owned Cosco to lease the port at Long Beach, CA. He simply did not and does not trust them.
In a 1996 article Hunter penned for Knight Ridder, he wrote:
“Advocates of continued Most-Favored-Nation trade status for China claim that this is a ''normal'' part of U.S. international relations and that China hasn't done anything odd enough to be an exception.
“China's friends seem to have adopted a rather jaded view of normality.
“Are thinly veiled threats to attack Los Angeles, like those made by China during the recent Taiwan crisis, ''normal'' diplomatic discourse?
“Was Beijing's attempt to influence elections on Taiwan by military demonstrations and missile firings ''normal?''
“Was the movement of two U.S. carrier battlegroups to positions of potential confrontation with China a ''normal'' gesture of friendly relations?
“Or, do these actions indicate a strategic relationship with China more on a par with Cuba or North Korea, countries with which we do not extend MFN?
“We didn't grant MFN to the Soviet Union either, when it was aiming missiles at U.S. cities……Renewing China's MFN status without a strategic quid pro quo would be another sign of relative American weakness.”
Alas, Hunter failed in his bid to stop his own party from supporting the misnamed ‘free trade’ nonsense in 2000. Why is it nonsense, you ask? From Hunter’s point of view, there are three main reasons.
First, you can never trust a communist! They are not honest partners in trade, international relations, or in any other endeavor. Hunter has been prophetic in this regard. The blatant dishonesty from the Chicoms is on par with the best fraudulence the Soviets regularly coughed up. China consistently uses bribes, much like a third world nation: Bribes for getting our business and requiring bribes for getting theirs. They demand ‘offsets’. If you want to sell airplanes, for example, you must allow them to manufacture parts (offsets), or in Airbus’ case, whole planes, giving up valuable industrial secrets to help China close the technology gap. Hunter calls offsets "a strategic threat to the U.S. defense industrial base."
They cheat. As evidenced by the recent products discovered to contain worthless toxic fillers. They lie, as demonstrated by numerous cases where they purchased our high-tech goods for ‘civilian’ use, only to have such equipment disappear into some PLA black hole. They steal, as clearly shown by hundreds of cases of corporate and governmental espionage in recent years; everything from biomedical research to our nuclear secrets. They also pirate roughly 95% of our software and other intellectual property, depriving US businesses of billions in sales annually.
Second, China has a strategy to become a superpower, to surpass the US in industrial, military and economic might. The world can ill afford to have the US lose influence around the globe to a communist power. All of the underhanded activities mentioned above are designed to give them the upper hand. They recently showed off ‘their’ technological prowess to the world by blowing a satellite out of orbit. As Mr. Hunter notes, they have purchased “with our trade dollars” the most sophisticated weapons from Russia. They are using every method imaginable to obtain technical and manufacturing expertise.
While China does not adhere to an USSR-like vision of empire, they nonetheless have sought to dominate Asia and blunt US influence in the region. They have every intention of “re-uniting” with Taiwan, by force, if necessary. They are using Soviet style practices to marginalize Tibetans. And they have sold nuclear technology to rouge regimes across the globe. China has consistently used its position on the UN Security Council to block US and Western initiatives.
Third, China sides with our enemies. They have courted everyone from the Sudanese genocidal rulers to Fidel Castro to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran. They prop up North Korea’s freakish leader, not because they like or respect the little dictator, but because he is a thorn in the side of the United States (and he makes a hole-in-one each golf outing). They have feted and made deals with the megalomaniac in Venezuela. And, as an added finger in America’s eye, they have been selling armaments that make their way to the terrorists in Iraq.
They are playing a game of bluff with the US, confident of our cowardice. They brazenly held some of our airmen in 2001, demanding an apology from us, for their own pilot’s foolishness. While President Bush muddled through it reasonably well, the Chicoms would certainly not have tested a man like Duncan Hunter, who immediately demanded a cutoff of all trade with the communist regime. As Hunter succinctly stated back then, “the fact is, while we trade with China, they prepare for war”.
So what is Hunter’s solution to the China dilemma?
First, he proposes to treat them as the communist adversary that they are. That means no more generous, unbalanced trade deals. All trade deals will be reciprocal. No more Chinese tariffs on US products, if they expect the same. Second, put a halt to high technology sales of dual use equipment. If it is a potential breech of security, it stays on our shores. And from our side, Hunter wants to eliminate taxes on our manufacturing exporters. As he stated on Free Republic, “I would reduce taxes on domestic manufacturing to zero or as close thereto as possible and immediately stop China’s cheating on trade that is moving high-paying jobs offshore.” Hunter will also demand that China float its currency. He currently has a bill in Congress that would require the President to force China to do just that. Pirated software, espionage, and other nefarious activity will be treated with harsh sanctions. Hunter understands something the Wall Street Journal crowd does not; that China needs us as much or more than we need them. After all, many other low wage countries exist that can produce TVs, microwaves, and GI Joes, but there is no one to replace the USA as China’s main market for their crap….er..goods. Hunter fully intends to use this leverage, leverage that others are afraid to even contemplate.
On the military equation, Hunter promises to increase spending on our defense budget to near Reagan levels. With two major battlefronts in Afghanistan and Iraq, our current defense budget is still roughly only 3.5% of GDP. Hunter is calling for an immediate increase to about “4.5% to 5% of GDP”, paid for by a freeze in discretionary, non-military spending and cutting billions in domestic bureaucracy and programs. Hunter has been on the leading edge in his support for military technology, on everything from bunker busting bombs, to stealth aircraft to airborne laser weapons. Duncan Hunter will insist that America lead the way in space based weaponry, to stay far ahead of the Chinese (and the Russians). From his days as Reagan’s point man to the present, Hunter has been and continues to be the most stalwart supporter of missile defenses (space, land, sea, and air based) and offensive firepower.
Hunter has no misty eyed sentiment that one day soon the US and China will sing Kumbaya together and advance world peace. That can only happen after the communist party collapses.
Indeed, Hunter intends to grab Red China by the throat.
Hunter wrote the following in a 2001 San Diego Union Tribune article:
“In March of 1941, Rep. Carl Anderson from Minnesota warned America about the danger of arming potential adversaries. He said then that the chances of war with Japan were 50-50, and that if our Navy were to meet the Japanese, we would encounter a fleet which was built with American steel and fueled with American petroleum. A few months later at Pearl Harbor, 21 American ships were sunk, 300 planes were destroyed, and 5,000 Americans were killed and wounded by a Japanese fleet that was indeed built with American steel and fueled with American petroleum.
“Why is it that we still have not learned from this valuable lesson? Today, China is using its $80 billion trade surplus with the United States to build a formidable military. Tragically, the weapons China procures are targeted toward the very Americans who supplied them through their trade dollars.”
In a 2004 Armed Services Committee hearing, Hunter said:
“First, the balance of power is changing across the Taiwan strait. China continues modernizing its military with the most advanced technology available from Russia. Taiwan, on the other hand, continues cutting its defense budget. These diverging military trends highlight a political problem, in which China constantly seeks to strangle more assertive demonstrations of Taiwanese democracy, lest the people of Taiwan decide that they don’t want to surrender their rights in order to become part of greater China. Those trends are accelerating, undermining the fragile standoff that has secured peace across the strait for most of the last fifty years.
While we seek diplomatic means of solving these problems, there should be no doubt that the military stands on the front lines in ensuring that they don’t get out of hand. We absolutely must be ready, willing, and able to defeat aggression in the region in order to deter it. Everyone must know that force is not an acceptable way of resolving Taiwan’s status”.
And finally, in the July 2007 GOP candidates’ debate, Hunter was asked by Fox’s Wendell Goler if the billions in American debt held by the Chinese constitutes a security threat. He replied:
“If we don’t do anything about it, Wendell, it will be a security threat. And the other thing that will be a security threat is the fact that China is buying ships, planes and military equipment with hundreds of billions of American trade dollars coming there way. They bought the Sovremmeny class missile destroyers from the Russians that were designed to do one thing: Kill American Aircraft carriers. So there IS a security threat as we allow China to cheat on trade, they are arming with American trade dollars and they are lending our money back to us. Some people say they will treat us right if get into a crunch. And I say ‘yeah, just like they treated that guy in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square’. It is time for us to enforce trade rules with China, to create a two way street, not a one way street and that will give us much less exposure on the economic side that you’re talking about, and the security side”.
Indeed, Duncan Hunter is the Dragon Hunter. The only one left.
Once again, NWCL has scooped the entire Blogosphere with another fine essay by Mr. Madison. This is a good one!
Alexander J. Madison - August 16, 2007 ‘Those dirty communist bastards’. This phrase and similarly worded curses are being uttered by more Americans each day as the headlines in normally apologist media outlets are documenting case after case of Chinese malfeasance this summer of 2007.
Headlines such as “More Tainted Chinese Toothpaste found”, “Mattel: 9M More Chinese-made Toys Recalled”, “Melamine in Pet Food may not be Accidental”, and more ominously “China Warns America It May Sell US Treasury Bonds” are perking up American ears. Nothing rattles the average American consumer like stories of beloved family pets dropping like flies, or Polly Pockets and Little People posing a danger to our real little people. All those bloody knuckles caused by poorly made socket wrenches are nothing compared to liver failure and lead poisoning. US consumers are rattled…and angry.
The investor class is also worried. As our political leaders gingerly attempt to address China’s currency devaluation and trade surplus with our country, powerful communist apparatchiks (yes, I know –it’s a Russian term) are hinting at a US treasury bill dump, a dump that could have severe financial consequences. China has pegged the value of the yuan to the dollar. Instead of floating in a natural balance against the dollar like other major currencies, this peg allows the Chinese imports to our shores to maintain their relative ‘cheapness’, not only here, but on the world market. It is China’s stated goal to leapfrog the US as the #1 economic powerhouse in the world, and undercutting US manufacturing is a very comfortable part of that plan. It has given them a staggering $233 billion trade surplus with the USA in 2006, a total that will easily be surpassed in 2007. But more likely than not, US negotiators will be reigned in and the status quo will continue, for now.
But how did we get here? Why have politicians and business leaders in the US allowed us to arrive at a place where a communist enemy holds such leverage over our economy? A place where a few words uttered by a ‘respected’ Chinese academic can rattle our markets? A place where we have allowed substandard food and materials onto our shores for years? And for that matter, a place where we pretend there is really only one China – Taiwan being a renegade province and such? The full answers are well beyond the scope of this article, but the short version is this: greed and a lack of strategic thinking.
The free-trade lobby will tell us that opening China up to free trade will bring about the desired political reforms and lead to a ‘partnership’. The problem with this argument is that it has been made for the last 25 years and relations have not improved, rather, they have deteriorated. But the siren song of the Chinese ‘comfort women’ is too much for big business to resist. “Come, build your new plant in China. We have cheap labor and negligible regulations…Oh, and by the way, we will be co-owners with you and you will need to share your manufacturing secrets…but hey, you will still make more money.”
Unfortunately, President Bush has his hands full in Iraq and Afghanistan, and is hesitant to tackle the problem. His legacy is tied to success in the muslim world now and a financial showdown with China is not in the making. The majority democrat party is certainly yapping about China (dead pets, you know), but their leading candidate was bought and paid for with communist dollars.
Scanning the political horizon for 2008, there is only one man standing that vows to put an end to this entire charade, Duncan Hunter. Duncan Hunter is, and has been, a Dragon Hunter.
Just as his mentor, Ronald Wilson Reagan, decided to change the rules for how the USA dealt with the Soviet Union - from détente to “we win, they lose”- Hunter is demanding a new set of unmarked playing cards for this high stakes poker match with China. The underlying philosophy shared by Reagan and Hunter is unabashed anti-communism. Whether it is the Lenin/Stalin model or that of Mao Tse-Tung, a communist deserves nothing short of defeat in Hunter’s view. Having entered office in 1980 with the Gipper, Hunter was instrumental in the House of Representatives for strong-arming through Reagan’s tough, anti-communist agenda. And being a Vietnam combat veteran who fought Chinese backed stooges, Congressman Hunter has several lifetimes’ worth of disdain for such an ideology. That disdain was only reinforced in the aftermath of our withdrawal from Vietnam, in the skull-filled killing fields and the rat infested ‘re-ducation’ camps. A brief China-Vietnam war in the late 1970s did not change his view of either side.
Duncan Hunter’s record of opposition to China has been as consistent as his opposition to abortion. He was nearly successful in stopping Permanent Most Favored Nation status from being gifted to China by Bill Clinton and the US congress in 2000. As Hunter mentioned in an August 13 interview on the Free Republic website:
“All of the Senators presently running for president, including Mr. Thompson, Brownback and McCain voted for Permanent Most Favored Nation status for Communist China, which I strongly oppose. I voted against PMFN with Red China because the Chinese are clearly using US trade dollars to buy ships, warplanes and missiles, some of which are clearly targeted on American forces and interests”.
Based on that statement, it is obvious Hunter does not use the bleeding heart, liberal argument to oppose China. He uses clear eyed realism centered around the defense of our nation. And his opposition did not start in 2000, and it has only intensified since. In 1998, Hunter sponsored a bill to strip away all satellite and satellite technology sales to China. President Clinton even signed it, due in part to pressure from the scandal investigations looking at laundered Chinese money in democrat coffers.
In June 2000, Hunter introduced the Nuclear Secrets Safety Act in response to continued Chinese espionage and weak procedures for securing classified information in our research labs and facilities. His consistent anti-China voting record shows that he opposed the sale of US ‘dual-use’ technology equipment to China (including supercomputers) and fought to give the Pentagon veto power over such sales. He voted to deny US participation in cooperative research and development, and to prohibit Red China from ‘ownership and control’ of any businesses involved in defense related systems or services. For decades, Hunter has supported robust arms sales to Taiwan, including missile defenses. Through the late 1990s, it was Duncan Hunter who led the fight against allowing China owned Cosco to lease the port at Long Beach, CA. He simply did not and does not trust them.
In a 1996 article Hunter penned for Knight Ridder, he wrote:
“Advocates of continued Most-Favored-Nation trade status for China claim that this is a ''normal'' part of U.S. international relations and that China hasn't done anything odd enough to be an exception.
“China's friends seem to have adopted a rather jaded view of normality.
“Are thinly veiled threats to attack Los Angeles, like those made by China during the recent Taiwan crisis, ''normal'' diplomatic discourse?
“Was Beijing's attempt to influence elections on Taiwan by military demonstrations and missile firings ''normal?''
“Was the movement of two U.S. carrier battlegroups to positions of potential confrontation with China a ''normal'' gesture of friendly relations?
“Or, do these actions indicate a strategic relationship with China more on a par with Cuba or North Korea, countries with which we do not extend MFN?
“We didn't grant MFN to the Soviet Union either, when it was aiming missiles at U.S. cities……Renewing China's MFN status without a strategic quid pro quo would be another sign of relative American weakness.”
Alas, Hunter failed in his bid to stop his own party from supporting the misnamed ‘free trade’ nonsense in 2000. Why is it nonsense, you ask? From Hunter’s point of view, there are three main reasons.
First, you can never trust a communist! They are not honest partners in trade, international relations, or in any other endeavor. Hunter has been prophetic in this regard. The blatant dishonesty from the Chicoms is on par with the best fraudulence the Soviets regularly coughed up. China consistently uses bribes, much like a third world nation: Bribes for getting our business and requiring bribes for getting theirs. They demand ‘offsets’. If you want to sell airplanes, for example, you must allow them to manufacture parts (offsets), or in Airbus’ case, whole planes, giving up valuable industrial secrets to help China close the technology gap. Hunter calls offsets "a strategic threat to the U.S. defense industrial base."
They cheat. As evidenced by the recent products discovered to contain worthless toxic fillers. They lie, as demonstrated by numerous cases where they purchased our high-tech goods for ‘civilian’ use, only to have such equipment disappear into some PLA black hole. They steal, as clearly shown by hundreds of cases of corporate and governmental espionage in recent years; everything from biomedical research to our nuclear secrets. They also pirate roughly 95% of our software and other intellectual property, depriving US businesses of billions in sales annually.
Second, China has a strategy to become a superpower, to surpass the US in industrial, military and economic might. The world can ill afford to have the US lose influence around the globe to a communist power. All of the underhanded activities mentioned above are designed to give them the upper hand. They recently showed off ‘their’ technological prowess to the world by blowing a satellite out of orbit. As Mr. Hunter notes, they have purchased “with our trade dollars” the most sophisticated weapons from Russia. They are using every method imaginable to obtain technical and manufacturing expertise.
While China does not adhere to an USSR-like vision of empire, they nonetheless have sought to dominate Asia and blunt US influence in the region. They have every intention of “re-uniting” with Taiwan, by force, if necessary. They are using Soviet style practices to marginalize Tibetans. And they have sold nuclear technology to rouge regimes across the globe. China has consistently used its position on the UN Security Council to block US and Western initiatives.
Third, China sides with our enemies. They have courted everyone from the Sudanese genocidal rulers to Fidel Castro to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran. They prop up North Korea’s freakish leader, not because they like or respect the little dictator, but because he is a thorn in the side of the United States (and he makes a hole-in-one each golf outing). They have feted and made deals with the megalomaniac in Venezuela. And, as an added finger in America’s eye, they have been selling armaments that make their way to the terrorists in Iraq.
They are playing a game of bluff with the US, confident of our cowardice. They brazenly held some of our airmen in 2001, demanding an apology from us, for their own pilot’s foolishness. While President Bush muddled through it reasonably well, the Chicoms would certainly not have tested a man like Duncan Hunter, who immediately demanded a cutoff of all trade with the communist regime. As Hunter succinctly stated back then, “the fact is, while we trade with China, they prepare for war”.
So what is Hunter’s solution to the China dilemma?
First, he proposes to treat them as the communist adversary that they are. That means no more generous, unbalanced trade deals. All trade deals will be reciprocal. No more Chinese tariffs on US products, if they expect the same. Second, put a halt to high technology sales of dual use equipment. If it is a potential breech of security, it stays on our shores. And from our side, Hunter wants to eliminate taxes on our manufacturing exporters. As he stated on Free Republic, “I would reduce taxes on domestic manufacturing to zero or as close thereto as possible and immediately stop China’s cheating on trade that is moving high-paying jobs offshore.” Hunter will also demand that China float its currency. He currently has a bill in Congress that would require the President to force China to do just that. Pirated software, espionage, and other nefarious activity will be treated with harsh sanctions. Hunter understands something the Wall Street Journal crowd does not; that China needs us as much or more than we need them. After all, many other low wage countries exist that can produce TVs, microwaves, and GI Joes, but there is no one to replace the USA as China’s main market for their crap….er..goods. Hunter fully intends to use this leverage, leverage that others are afraid to even contemplate.
On the military equation, Hunter promises to increase spending on our defense budget to near Reagan levels. With two major battlefronts in Afghanistan and Iraq, our current defense budget is still roughly only 3.5% of GDP. Hunter is calling for an immediate increase to about “4.5% to 5% of GDP”, paid for by a freeze in discretionary, non-military spending and cutting billions in domestic bureaucracy and programs. Hunter has been on the leading edge in his support for military technology, on everything from bunker busting bombs, to stealth aircraft to airborne laser weapons. Duncan Hunter will insist that America lead the way in space based weaponry, to stay far ahead of the Chinese (and the Russians). From his days as Reagan’s point man to the present, Hunter has been and continues to be the most stalwart supporter of missile defenses (space, land, sea, and air based) and offensive firepower.
Hunter has no misty eyed sentiment that one day soon the US and China will sing Kumbaya together and advance world peace. That can only happen after the communist party collapses.
Indeed, Hunter intends to grab Red China by the throat.
Hunter wrote the following in a 2001 San Diego Union Tribune article:
“In March of 1941, Rep. Carl Anderson from Minnesota warned America about the danger of arming potential adversaries. He said then that the chances of war with Japan were 50-50, and that if our Navy were to meet the Japanese, we would encounter a fleet which was built with American steel and fueled with American petroleum. A few months later at Pearl Harbor, 21 American ships were sunk, 300 planes were destroyed, and 5,000 Americans were killed and wounded by a Japanese fleet that was indeed built with American steel and fueled with American petroleum.
“Why is it that we still have not learned from this valuable lesson? Today, China is using its $80 billion trade surplus with the United States to build a formidable military. Tragically, the weapons China procures are targeted toward the very Americans who supplied them through their trade dollars.”
In a 2004 Armed Services Committee hearing, Hunter said:
“First, the balance of power is changing across the Taiwan strait. China continues modernizing its military with the most advanced technology available from Russia. Taiwan, on the other hand, continues cutting its defense budget. These diverging military trends highlight a political problem, in which China constantly seeks to strangle more assertive demonstrations of Taiwanese democracy, lest the people of Taiwan decide that they don’t want to surrender their rights in order to become part of greater China. Those trends are accelerating, undermining the fragile standoff that has secured peace across the strait for most of the last fifty years.
While we seek diplomatic means of solving these problems, there should be no doubt that the military stands on the front lines in ensuring that they don’t get out of hand. We absolutely must be ready, willing, and able to defeat aggression in the region in order to deter it. Everyone must know that force is not an acceptable way of resolving Taiwan’s status”.
And finally, in the July 2007 GOP candidates’ debate, Hunter was asked by Fox’s Wendell Goler if the billions in American debt held by the Chinese constitutes a security threat. He replied:
“If we don’t do anything about it, Wendell, it will be a security threat. And the other thing that will be a security threat is the fact that China is buying ships, planes and military equipment with hundreds of billions of American trade dollars coming there way. They bought the Sovremmeny class missile destroyers from the Russians that were designed to do one thing: Kill American Aircraft carriers. So there IS a security threat as we allow China to cheat on trade, they are arming with American trade dollars and they are lending our money back to us. Some people say they will treat us right if get into a crunch. And I say ‘yeah, just like they treated that guy in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square’. It is time for us to enforce trade rules with China, to create a two way street, not a one way street and that will give us much less exposure on the economic side that you’re talking about, and the security side”.
Indeed, Duncan Hunter is the Dragon Hunter. The only one left.
FoxCarolina California GOP Candidate Makes Stop In Upstate Duncan Hunter Holds Informal Meeting In Anderson County
POSTED: 9:17 am EST November 30, 2007 UPDATED: 10:21 am EST November 30, 2007
GREENVILLE, S.C. -- In the race for the Republican presidential nomination we hear a lot about candidates like Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney. But what about California Rep. Duncan Hunter?
During an appearance Thursday in the Upstate, there were no secret service agents, no campaign entourage and no major network press corps. The candidate held an informal meet-and-greet with supporters at Fuddruckers in Anderson County.
"We're continuing to stand up the Iraqi army. I think that's proceeding the pace," Hunter said in front of the group.
Then he talked about national security. He's against amnesty for illegal immigrants, and he was a sponsor of the bill that established the border fence project last year.
"As I've said on many of the debates, if anyone can climb my border fence, we sign them up for the Olympics," Hunter joked.
He touts the importance of buying products made in America and has some interesting ideas about health care.
"The best thing we can do for health care is let people buy their insurance across state lines," Hunter said.
Charles Crow, of Anderson, has been following Hunter's political career since the 80s and worries he doesn't have the name recognition to win.
Crow says, "It would be easier for me to support Huckabee since he's basically a conservative, and he's a little higher in the polls, but that wouldn't be true to what I believe. I still believe Duncan Hunter would make a much better president."
Hunter said he is proud to have supporters with such principle. He plans to campaign vigorously in early primary states like South Carolina and said he's still very much in the race.
"I've got a chance to win and that's all you get in America, is a chance," he said. Copyright 2007 by foxcarolina.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
San Diego, CA – Presidential candidate and U.S. Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) took the opportunity today to respond to a question posed to candidates at the CNN-YouTube Republican Presidential debate that occurred last week that he did not have an opportunity to answer. Holding a Bible, Joseph Dearing from Dallas, Texas, asked the candidates, “Do you believe every word of this book? Specifically, this book that I am holding in my hand, do you believe this book?” Congressman Hunter has sent Mr. Dearing the following letter in answer to his question:
December 3, 2007
Dear Mr. Dearing:
At last week’s CNN-You Tube debate, you asked the question of all of us “Do you believe in every word of this book?” meaning the Bible. As you know, the moderator called on my fellow candidates Governor Romney, Mayor Giuliani and Governor Huckabee to answer, but I myself was not given an opportunity. Allow me to respond directly to your question now. Do I believe every word of the Bible? Yes, by faith.
I find the center of the Bible to be these words: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life,” John 3:16. If you believe in this promise, which so obviously is not scientifically provable, then is there any other event in the Bible that God’s hand cannot accomplish?
On June 28, 1787, at the Constitution Convention when the delegates appeared to be hopelessly deadlocked, old Ben Franklin made a speech, the central sentence being the following: “The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?”
Following this statement, Franklin made a request resulting in the delegates approving a motion by James Madison to open every session with a prayer. The U.S. Constitution was thus born and this document, which delivers to every American the freedoms we enjoy, was produced by men of great faith and who very strongly believed in the Bible. Our further freedoms have been defended by American soldiers, 619,000 of whom were killed in battle during the last century, and a vast majority I feel believed the Bible.
I am sending you a book which I hope you will find instructive and persuasive, “A Third Testament” by Malcolm Muggeridge, chronicling the lives of great intellectuals in history who became followers of Christ and who believed in the Bible.
When I am asked by those who pride themselves on the reliance on provable scientific facts regarding the validity of the scriptures, I answer with one such set of facts. There are an infinite number of atoms on the head of a pin, each of which are circled by electrons. Who placed those electrons there? I hope their attempt to answer this question helps them to understand my three-word answer to your original question. Do I believe every word of the Bible? Yes, by faith.
“American workers are the most productive and innovative labor force in the world. Unfortunately, they are asked to compete in an unfair environment against other workers who make only a fraction of a living wage and are employed by companies that face few, if any, responsibilities to the environment or the long-term prospects of their employees. Our domestic manufacturers are forced to compete against foreign companies that benefit from their country’s currency and regulatory regimes. Ominously, China is cheating on trade and using billions of American trade dollars to build ships, planes and missiles at an alarming rate while, at the same time, taking millions of American jobs. I will reverse this “one-way street” with a new policy of fair trade for the American worker.
From: Duncan Hunter To: Bradley Littlefield Sent: 1/19/2008 7:56:58 PM Subject: "Today we end this campaign" Duncan Hunter
MEDIA ALERT
Congressman Duncan Hunter returns to San Diego tonight,
Saturday January 19, 2008
Media Opportunity at 8:00 PM (PST)
Broadway Pier at the end of Broadway St, San Diego
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 19, 2008
CONTACT: Gary Becks (619) 334-1655, garybecks@yahoo.com San Diego, Calif. We started this campaign a year ago right here, in San Diego Harbor, against the backdrop of American Naval power. We launched a campaign emphasizing a strong national defense, enforceable borders and restoring the industrial base of America. Today we end this campaign. The Nevada caucuses reflecting only 2% of the vote for me. I ran the campaign exactly the way I wanted to, and at this point not being able to gain traction in conservative states of Nevada and South Carolina, it's time to allow our volunteers and supporters to focus on the campaigns that remain viable. It's time for me to gear up for 2008's defense bill that will be put together over the coming weeks. There is work to be done in the areas of troop protection and new capabilities to be deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And over the horizon, the emergence of Communist China as a military super power will require a new emphasis on U.S. capabilities in undersea warfare, space, and long range air-power. The best way to maintain a new era of peace is for the U.S. to remain strong. Over the coming year I will endeavor to help craft a defense bill that meets the new security challenges. Since our campaign began over 200,000 additional manufacturing jobs have been lost. 1.8 million jobs have left the U.S. for China. This fracturing of the U.S. industrial base is a long term threat to America. I hope that the remaining candidates will recognize it and address it. As the senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, I will seek to address it. Only hours ago a border patrolman was killed in the California Desert. This tragedy emphasizes more than ever the compelling case for the completion of the border fence. Since I wrote the bill that mandates 854 miles of double border fence only a few miles have been constructed. Over the next year in Congress I will do everything in my power to get that fence built. Finally, for Lynn and me, the campaign over the last year has shown us this: America is a wonderful country. Our people have great character and goodness, and the meeting of new friends has enriched our lives. The failure of our campaign to gain traction is mine and mine alone. But we have driven the issues of national security, the border fence, the emergence of China and the need to reverse bad trade policy. Because of that, this campaign has been very worthwhile, and for the Hunter family, a lot of fun. To our friends and supporters and volunteers: many thanks. And now it's time for me to focus on developing a 2008 defense bill that serves our troops and our nation. Thanks, and God Bless America. Duncan Hunter
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And over the horizon, the emergence of Communist China as a military super power will require a new emphasis on U.S. capabilities in undersea warfare, space, and long range air-power.
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Since our campaign began over 200,000 additional manufacturing jobs have been lost. 1.8 million jobs have left the U.S. for China. This fracturing of the U.S. industrial base is a long term threat to America
Perhaps it is in our country's best interest that Duncan Hunter is not president. He seems to know what downward direction this country is going in and will try to reverse and correct them, while we still can. The most alarming statement is the first quote stating that Communist China is emerging into a military super power. And obviously an economically one also. Some say that the yellow race will control near the END!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Alexander J. Madison and the Conservative Candidate Posted by CalperniaUSA at 1/23/2008 3:04 PM and is filed under Alexander J. Madison,Duncan Hunter,Elections 2008
With all of the written and video obituaries which have found their way onto the internet regarding the recent demise of Congressman Duncan Hunter's presidential campaign, we at NWCL would like to offer this gem. There are other voices out there who believe it is still not too late.
Alexander J. Madison January 22, 2007
Fellow citizens,
Fred Thompson has finally dropped out. There is no one left in the race that can arguably claim to have a conservative record. Despite the current rhetoric from Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mike Huckabee, there is solid history of liberalism from these gentlemen. Volumes can and have been written about their respective stints in office that not only outraged conservatives at the time, but that should have been permanent railroad spikes in the coffins of their ambitions for higher office. Instead, like Dracula, the RINOs are undead again, and leading towards 2008 disaster. Disaster not only if they were to lose, but even if they win. The GOP cannot veer left, period. Its only hope as a viable conservative party is to move confidently back to the right; right back towards its Reagan roots. And despite what the folks at National Review or the Wall Street Journal think, these candidates current platforms also include healthy doses of the liberal agenda.
All four of these men were faster than Clint Eastwood drawing a six shooter when the schoolmarm moderator in the last Iowa debate asked for a show of hands for those who deemed global warming to be a serious problem. They range from wanting an international binding treaty on global warming to pressing for a mandated cap and trade system to thinking Arnold Schwarzenegger is the a real leader on the issue. Egads, have we surrendered to Algores propaganda in the Grand Old Party?!?
Duncan Hunter told the FreeRepublic audience in a live on-line interview that he rejects the alarmism of Al Gore and others on the subject. And no way would he lead us to an international, sovereignty usurping treaty for this farce of a problem.
Mike Huckabee thinks George Bushs foreign policy is arrogant and that world opinion is sufficient to close down Guantanamo Bay and ship the jihadis stateside. He believes the Golden Rule applies to foreign policy and therefore would gladly sit down with the Mullahs for tea and conversation. Folks, he is channeling Barack Obama! He also invokes Gods name to justify a green streak that would make Algore proud. Hes so green, he vows to eliminate smoking in public, for the good of you and the planet. Huckabee sought and obtained the endorsement of the New Hampshire chapter of the NEA, the bane of conservatives and conservatism across the nation. And no matter the audience, Huckabee is a panderer with few equals. The only thing missing in his performance at the Values Voters debate was his failure to bite his lip to show how much he cared. He claims he is a conservative, but that he is just not mad about it. I suppose that gives him a sense of moral superiority, but in reality, it more clearly explains lib-speak such as calling the constitution a living breathing document and calling law and order conservatives racists and demagogues for wanting to send illegal aliens back home.
Mitt Romney is still sticking to his guns, so to speak, on gun control. One of the few areas in which he has not completely reversed himself is on this issue. He claimed that assault weapons are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people. Not only a liberal, but a liberal drama queen, especially since he would not know an assault rifle from a potato gun. Mitt is also a China appeaser. Of course, some of Hunters realpolitik rhetoric has rubbed off on him lately, but earlier this year he naively claimed that China doesnt want to bury us, they want to see us succeed and thrive so we can buy more Chinese products .I will reach out to them. Ive already met with their leadership and will do so again if Im lucky enough to become President, making China a partner for stability in the world. Someone might want to tell the naive Mittster about the constant Chinese cyber attacks on US facilities such as the Pentagon, their rush into space warfare systems, and their long term goal to strangle the US industrial base. Then again he may not care, since he seems to have no problem with his old company, Bain Capital, partnering with a PLA backed company to buy a US business that makes security systems for the DOD. Of course, he still is defending Massachusetts mandated RomneyCare, despite the fact that it is falling apart at the seams after just a few years.
Not much needs to be written about our friend Rudy Giuliani. His pro-abortion stance should be more than sufficient to reject his candidacy. In case it isnt, then just know this: He is a man who thinks that the 2nd Amendment is for law enforcement officers and hunters, that former ACLU squawker Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a well qualified Supreme Court Justice, that a strict constructionist judge could agree that Roe versus Wade IS constitutional, that creating a new, bloated, taxpayer funded National Catastrophe Fund (as he panders to Floridians) is a good idea, that Amnesty is not Amnesty, that a high tech border fence will stop the stampede, that being here illegally is not a crime, and that deporting the illegal aliens here now is a ridiculous notion.
Rudy is in good company when he takes the debate stage with John McCain when it comes to illegal aliens. McCain cares far more for the pontifications of his buddies Ted Kennedy and Lindsey Graham on illegal immigration than what the American people have to say about it. He too considers paying a nominal fine as sufficient justification for allowing illegals to remain here permanently. McCain also shows an Algorian liberalism in claiming credit where little is due. Im referring to his on-the-stump bragging about his role in the current success in Iraq. The surge as it is called, was the brainchild of General David Petraeus, who was tasked by one Don Rumsfeld to draw up tactics for an effective counterinsurgency. McCain rightly claims that he has consistently demanded more troops. But Gen. Petraeus call for 21,000 additional troops well within the ebb and flow of troop rotations over the previous 3 years was a far cry from the additional 100,000 + Soldiers and Marines that McCain was demanding. And if Don Rumsfeld is the worst Secretary of Defense in our nations history, as Mr. McCain has declared, then McCain is the worst Senator in the history of the world, going back to the days of the crumbling Roman Empire. Our country does not need a leader with delusions of personal grandeur, especially a liberal one who flirted with the notion of being John Kerrys vice president.
With the choices left before us, we have come full circle. Conservatives clamoring for a conservative to beat back the Rudy McRomney juggernaut had a brave volunteer in Duncan Hunter. The fringe candidates such as Jim Gilmore, Sam Brownback, Tom Tancredo and Tommy Thompson all dropped out early. Hunter persevered, as long as his meager budget would allow. He anticipated that the conservative media would take the time to learn his record and realize that he was the one guy who had the complete conservative package, without having to change a single fundamental position he has held for the last 25 years. But they didnt bother.
And just what is that complete package and what are those fundamental positions?
For starters, Hunter is the most knowledgeable man in Congress on our military, its history, its capabilities, and most importantly, its current needs. He has been the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, as is currently the ranking republican. He is a Hawks Hawk. As McCain worked with democrats to cut the military budget for a non-existent peace dividend, Hunter was scrapping for every last dollar to fight the downward path Bush I and Clinton embarked upon. McCain ran in 2000 on a platform that claimed Clinton neglected the Military, but McCain was not the one in the trenches fighting to save our Army Divisions, our Naval flotilla or our missile defenses; it was Duncan Hunter. Hunter was not only Reagans right hand man during the restoration of our military, he was the most vociferous voice in Washington pressing the case for maintaining and improving that restoration. No politician is more responsible for preventing the evisceration of our missile defense systems than Congressman Hunter. And Hunter has gone toe to toe with McCain and the liberals who vow to close down Guantanamo and neuter our interrogation methods. Political correctness is never is a consideration for Mr. Hunter, only our nations security. Hunter is also an Army Ranger combat veteran and a proud father and son - of a US Marine.
Duncan Hunter has also been the most steadfast and determined man in Congress to stop the illegal alien invasion. Ever since he arrived with Reagan in 1981, Hunter has been fighting the RINOs and democrats on illegal immigration. He warned that the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli immigration bill that granted amnesty to millions of Mexicans would only cause a larger stampede. The weak promises to secure the border never materialized, and Hunter was absolutely correct about that stampede. Hunter took matters into his own hands and got the double border fence built in his home county, fighting the Hispanic rights activist, the environmentalists and the RINOs the whole time. Hunter has sponsored or cosponsored over 80 bills and amendments in his career that attempted to slam the door on the ever growing problem. He addressed everything from anchor babies, to sanctuary cities and states, to increases in Border Patrol officers and detention facilities. As often as not, the democrats and Senate RINOs managed to water them down to the point of futility, and the various administrations lifted nary a finger to follow through on the ones that did pass. A prime example of that foolishness occurred just weeks ago when Senators Kay Bailey Hutchinson and John Cornyn gutted Hunters Secure Fence Act in the Senate. No longer is the fence mandated by type, location or schedule. In fact, there is no longer any requirement for it being a double fence with a patrol road between. Hunters fence in San Diego is testament that such a fence works very well, and Kay Bailey is a testament that a bird brained, open borders shill can be elected even in Texas.
None of the candidates, not even Mr. Huckabee, can match Hunters career long efforts to honor and restore our Judeo-Christian heritage and values. Hunter has been sponsoring legislation since the 1980s that would define life as beginning at conception and forward constitutional protection to the unborn. The human life of the unborn is non negotiable with Hunter, who has also worked diligently to prevent federal funds for abortion, to outlaw partial birth abortion and to stop all funds for embryonic stem cell research. Hunter is also the bane of the ACLU, who tried to have the Mt Soledad cross removed in San Diego, only to meet a very determined Hunter who would have none of it. His lifelong, adamant position is that the 1st Amendment does not prohibit religious speech, rather it protects such speech. A few months ago, Hunter helped put the thumbscrews on the politically correct weenies running the National Cemetery Administration who banned the recitation of the customary prayers during the flag folding ceremony (one person complained), forcing them to modify their ruling and re-allow it. Hunter has also been unbending in his position that gays should not be allowed to serve in the military. The gay lobby is not going to be endorsing Hunter any time soon. The rest of the candidates dance around the issue like Fred Astaire, trying to find that middle ground that wont offend anyone.
And Duncan Hunter has been a firm believer in supply side economics and has missed precious few chances to sponsor or cosponsor tax cuts. Hunters vision mirrors that of Ronald Reagan when it comes to taxes: Lower taxes stimulate growth and ultimately generates more money into the treasury. He has proposed eliminating the death tax, slashing corporate and individual and capital gains tax rates, eliminating taxes on farmers, oil and gas exploration, tip income, and everything in between. And during this campaign, Duncan Hunter has proposed to zero out all taxation for manufacturers that build their plants on US soil. Now THAT will create jobs and wealth at unprecedented levels, and help restore the Arsenal of Democracy, which is also a very real national security concern.
I could go on and on about Hunters rock-ribbed, pro-America, conservative positions on a whole host of issues from his rejection of gay marriage, to his proposal to slash the bureaucracy budgets including the Dept of Education, OSHA, the EPA, , the DOE, HUD etc, to his promise to eliminate the NEA and the NEH once and for all, to his proposal to freeze all non military and non security spending, to his calls for slashing regulations to instill nationwide competition in medical insurance and medicine itself, to his rock solid, absolute right stand on the 2nd Amendment, to his vow to confront the communist Chinese for their assorted malfeasance on trade and world affairs, to his guarantee to have all 854 miles of border fence up in six months, to his unwavering commitment to deport the illegal aliens, to his uncompromising stand on victory over the the jihadists in all theatres, but time does not allow today.
Suffice to say that Duncan Hunter IS the man that conservatives wanted. But the media would not cover him, the so-called conservative media treated him like a novelty when he is by far the most conservative and qualified man to be commander in chief. It is time for conservatives to rally around this man, as we should have done the first time, and ask him to re-enter the race to defeat the pack of RINOs that are still slugging it out. Fred Thompson was drafted in the hopes that a celebrity name, who was somewhat more conservative than the contenders could defeat Rudy McRomney. While that is an understandable line of thinking, in reality Freds entry diverted attention away from the Reaganite, Duncan Hunter, who needed a rally amongst the most conservative voters to lift his campaign into the first tier. Now that Fred is gone, we should ask Mr. Hunter to return, for the sake of the GOP, conservatism, the Reagan coalition, and the country.
If we all vow to contribute and work our tails off for him, we have a shot. And this time, the conservative media will pay attention.
Perhaps it is in our country's best interest that Duncan Hunter is not president. He seems to know what downward direction this country is going in and will try to reverse and correct them, while we still can. The most alarming statement is the first quote stating that Communist China is emerging into a military super power. And obviously an economically one also. Some say that the yellow race will control near the END!
But Bumble, answer this for me. Don't you have to realize that there is a problem before you fix it?
Is the problem not there just because nobody else is talking about it?
If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there, does it still make a noise?
If a man says something and there's no women around, is he still wrong???
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