Hawkins Signs On To Hunter Team

John Hawkins of Right Wing News has joined the Duncan Hunter campaign as a consultant. It looks as though there is a layer between John and the actual campaign, not a bad idea given Edward's recent goof, though I doubt that will be a problem with Hawkins, who usually plays it pretty straight as a blogger.

From what I know about Hunter, he may be the most consistent ideological conservative of the bunch now gathering as the Republican field for President in '08. He's new to the national scene, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. With so much happening so early, it's increasingly difficult to sort out what may happen over the next year.

I think the process benefits from having a pure conservative in the field and it wouldn't be the first time a conservative from California secured the nomination. It will be interesting to see how Hunter resonates as he begins to get, hopefully, at least some exposure in between the anointing of Obama and the crowning of Hillary.

As always, it's the one standing at the end of the day that takes the prize.

And, of course, congratulations to John Hawkins, the latest blogger to sign on to a campaign.

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Comments

[Darth Malice]

Hunter is a good guy ,but he can't win.He has all the charisma of paint drying.

[splashtc]

Perhaps too conservative-Wiki.

[seekeronos]

Duncan Hunter, along with Tom Tancredo, would be one of few people in the field to make for a fantastic conservative, common-sense President. I'll vote for him in the primary anyway, but I reckon that it would be a throw-away vote.

Unfortunately, Hunter is practically a "nobody" compared to the relative clout that Rudy Guliani or Mitt Romney have (ex-NYC mayor and MA governor).

As for Tancredo, he has probably made too many enemies in Congress and elsewhere - perhaps in 2012 or 2016 he might have a better chance after things cool down for him.

I'd love to see Newt put his hat in the ring though.

[Miss Fanny]

I like Newt. Guiliani, too.

I wonder why anyone would want the job, though. I watched Bush last night, and he looks so haggard and whipped. I actually wonder if he has someone, a professional, around to bolster his psyche. Who could stand what a president has to go through these days?

That made me think of Britain's parliament where everyone huffs and puffs and interrupts and guffaws and harumphs. So rude. Then there's Korea, I think, where they get into chair-throwing fist fights in their parliament. You know that has to help keep the stress level down. Sure beats the insidious lying and backstabbing of our government.

[Zifnab]

"Duncan Hunter, along with Tom Tancredo, would be one of few people in the field to make for a fantastic conservative, common-sense President."

Hahahahahahahaha. Oh God. That's too good. Yes, um... you realize that putting Tom Tancredo anywhere near your ballot will probably make Karl Rove committ hari-kari in pure frustration. For the past twelve years he's been trying to turn the hispanic community into the solid Republican base that blacks have been for the Democrats. And he might have even pulled it off, if Republicans weren't inherently so incredibly fucking racist.

Like, I'll be the first to admit, I'm sure there are guys in the Dem party (see: Biden, Byrd, every white Dem in NO) that make black people cringe when they pull the lever. But the way the wacko-fringe-right has all but thrown on hoods and started swinging lassos at hispanics makes the new generation of immigrants' political leanings a total no-brainer.

You might as well just hand over Congress to your opposition for the next fifty years. Pack it up. Go home. Game over, kids. The legal hispanic voting block in America is getting organized and its getting huge. The repeated Republican desire to spit in the faces of the largest and fastest growing minority in the US might as well be a desperate plea to be cast into political obscurity.

So good luck with that '08 run. Hell, come back for '12 and '16. Please. Stick around forever. Really, I totally encourage it. And enjoy the next few election cycles.

[seekeronos]

Eh? What's with the KKK comparisons here? Nobody's trying to reduce anyone's population here. Except for maybe, the illegal immigrants who refuse to assimilate into our society, much less actually legally migrate.

Or white-race haters who cry "racism" and "patriarchy" and the usual bits of screed of how we love to oppress the brown man.

Give it a rest. Most of us who can claim northern European ancestry (in part or in whole) really do not have a desire to oppress anyone, much less be in a position to do it. Some of us - perhaps most of us - do want to keep our nation the way it has been.

An American's first loyalty should be to America, by God. Not this "dual-citizenship with Mexico", or even co-dominion with Mexico. A lot of those illegals have this irredentist mindset to form a new mestizo nation out of the American Southwest, notwithstanding anything preached by M.E.Ch.A. to toss gasoline on the fire.

Sorry Mexico, but if you didn't want to cede/sell those territories to the USA by the Treaty of Hidalgo Guadalupe, then ya shouldn't have signed the treaty.

Yet, the reversion of the American Southwest into "Mexican Aztlan" is more a result of lax immigration policy.

If anything, the illegals ought to be rounded up and sent home, and the border sealed, mined, and patrolled by helicopter gunships, AC-130 Spectre gunships and mech infantry/cavalry.

If our leaders refuse to take that kind of drastic step, then perhaps Zifnab's vision will come true, but not in the way he likes:

When Mexico has upwards of 150 million people who have allegiance to Mexico alone within our borders, expect reprisals and genocide by the "browns" against the whites.

It has happened before, during the Mexican Revolution of the early 1910s which preceded WW1; both Mexican regular army troops and irregulars conducted brutal raids accross the border, raping and pillaging and decimating the male populations of American towns. Don't think that it couldn't happen again.

Only this time, with half of Mexico's population already deep inside the USA, it makes the prospect of a second American civil war quite possible in the not too distant future.

[BobInStamford]

Wow, this Duncan Hunter looks like a real winner! A flag-waver from California (he would be lucky to get 35% in his home state) is infinitely better than a Scientologist from MA or a guy from NY who was married to his cousin for 14 years. You cons have quite the talent pool going there!! Surge on!

[Zifnab]

"Only this time, with half of Mexico's population already deep inside the USA, it makes the prospect of a second American civil war quite possible in the not too distant future."

Yeah, right. Rally the keyboard commandos. I'm sure if you don't shoot yourselves in the feet, you'll make the 2nd American Civil War as smashing a success as Iraq and Afganistan. Good luck with all that.

Wingnuts. *sigh*

[seekeronos]

Perhaps. But assuming that you are living in the USA when such an event occurs, I wonder which side you will be on?

Because I can guarantee that IF there is a second American Civil war, you'll likely be on one side of a bullet or the other. Hope you know how to handle an SKS, an AR-15 or an AK-47, because it might just save your wide hide.

Oh, wait. Y'all in the loony left fringe won't be happy until all the guns are confiscated, so ya might have to make do with a hatchet or a kitchen knife.

Good luck with that.

Moonbats, sheesh.

[BobInStamford]

Uh oh- the rednecks are talking civil war again. Considering how the first one left you'd think the inbreds would think of something else. Such silly rednecks.

[templar knight]

Bob, do you even know what you are saying? You're either drunk or high, or both, or else you're just naturally retarded, which you couldn't help, therefore I would feel sorry for you. I believe it to be the former, therefore I just find you contemptible.

[Phoenix]

Templar,

BobinStamford IS the former 'artie' and 'carl'. He just changed his name. Too bad he couldn't change his song.

[Buzzy]

I like Hunter's positions too but I wonder if conservatives throwing support behind him would kill Romney's chances and leave us with Giuliani in November. No matter what the liberals might think grabbing illegal hispanics as a voting block is not more important than national sovereignty to many conservatives and Americans having jobs is more important than corporate profits from globalization. The Democrats might want to remember that more than half of their own party share those same beliefs.