Duncan Hunter drops GOP presidential bid.
By on Jan 19th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Duncan Hunter drops GOP presidential bid.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) has just announced that he is dropping out of the GOP presidential race.
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January 19th, 2008 at 6:54 pmWho?
January 19th, 2008 at 6:55 pmThere is nothing left for him to hunt.
January 19th, 2008 at 6:55 pmAh, Duncan, me man, we hardly knew ya.
Who was this again?
January 19th, 2008 at 6:58 pmHe just never got it off the ground, did he…....
January 19th, 2008 at 7:03 pmhttp://www.signonsandiego.com/ uniontrib/ 20071004/ news_1b4dupont.html
Duncan Idon’tknow
(Forgive me, Frank Herbert)
January 19th, 2008 at 7:14 pmWhat party was this guy in.? Hummmm, never heard of him./Ok..Next.?
January 19th, 2008 at 7:17 pmAnother bigot bites the dust.
January 19th, 2008 at 7:18 pmThis is an open thread, right?
January 19th, 2008 at 7:18 pmhe was a different guy when he was in college.
then he was know as “funkin’ duncan”.
people change i guess.
January 19th, 2008 at 7:24 pmMaybe this will start a trend and all the racists in the republican’t primary will quit…
January 19th, 2008 at 7:26 pmMaybe this will start a trend and all the racists in the republican’t primary will quit…
Comment by Bobwurst — January 19, 2008 @ 7:26 pm
leaving…?
January 19th, 2008 at 7:28 pmThis is an open thread, right?
Comment by Zooey — January 19, 2008 @ 7:18 pm
LOLOL Beautiful, Zooey!
January 19th, 2008 at 7:34 pmDuncan Hunter was running for President. You mean the MSM ignores candidates on the right too?
January 19th, 2008 at 7:41 pmWait for Bart to show up and complain how the progressives are dissing him.
January 19th, 2008 at 7:42 pmIf he claimed to be an evangelical…he might have won a state or two..
January 19th, 2008 at 7:47 pmI thought he dropped out a long time ago…. in more ways than one.
January 19th, 2008 at 7:49 pmhoohoo!
January 19th, 2008 at 7:53 pmwonder who’s going to get the coltergeist endorsement?
huh…i didn’t realize he was still in it.
January 19th, 2008 at 7:55 pmLOLOL Beautiful, Zooey!
Comment by Merlin — January 19, 2008 @ 7:34 pm
Heh. ;)
January 19th, 2008 at 8:01 pmKeep what little money you have cuz the DofJ is gonna get ahold of you sooner or later.
January 19th, 2008 at 8:22 pmMore time to patrol the border!
January 19th, 2008 at 8:25 pmDuncan who?
Except for California, the rest of the states don’t know Hunter from a bag of chips.
January 19th, 2008 at 8:26 pmPoor Duncan, this neocon jerk has been around to long in ca.
January 19th, 2008 at 8:38 pmLOOSER
Now he can concentrate on getting his son elected to his old congressional seat so that the gravy train will keep stopping at The Hunter House.
Poor Dunky, he looks like he hasn’t taken a dump since Mork and Mindy was on TV.
-GSD
January 19th, 2008 at 8:46 pmWho?
January 19th, 2008 at 9:02 pmWhen will Edward stop wasting the state taxpayers money AGAIN and drop out consider he doesn’t stand a chance?
Comment by Tracy2
When someone else starts speaking for the little guy, stooge.
January 19th, 2008 at 9:26 pm“…AGAIN…”
Comment by Tracy2
When will you quit wasting our time AGAIN and buzz off, considering you don’t have a chance….
January 19th, 2008 at 9:29 pmWhen will Edward stop wasting the state taxpayers money AGAIN and drop out consider he doesn’t stand a chance?
Comment by Tracy2
Edwards consistently comes out on top of every poll on Thom Hartmann’s program, DU, and Kos. Since he is our great white hope, I urge him to soldier on.
January 19th, 2008 at 9:53 pmSince he is our great white hope, I urge him to soldier on.
Comment by Anne
What was that tune they played when Cornwallis surrendered to Washington?
Oh yeah, “The World Turned Upside Down”…
January 19th, 2008 at 10:03 pmanne? uh… would you like to clarify that?
maybe you were just using a local cliche?
“soldier on” might be a clue…
it’s just… i too have great hope for the man,
but i don’t care what color he is…
i heard someone say he was orange the other night…
doesn’t matter…
…
i hear all the talk on AirAmerica and the blogs…
nobody cares for hillary - she’s on top in the “polls”…
everbody loves edwards - he can’t get a media break…
i don’t get it…
(or course i’m generalizing and exagerating there)…
January 19th, 2008 at 10:11 pmeverbody loves edwards - he can’t get a media break…
i don’t get it…
Comment by katy
I’m starting to see a pattern… the MSM doesn’t like “re-runs”.
January 19th, 2008 at 10:24 pmSomeone who has already run is not profitable.
There’s no new dirt to dig up, there’s no new scandal to exploit for the sake of ratings.
A throw-away society now has throw-away leaders.
that’s a good point, nevar… an interesting, probable theory…
i had an ah-ha moment when i heard randi talk about the money -
those with the most money are courted because THEY are the ones who will buy the time on those networks…
it’s gonna be up to us… the “blogosphere”…
January 19th, 2008 at 10:38 pmbut, mostly i think he’s shut out because he so anti-establishment,
so anti-corporatist… they have no benefit in helping him out…
pretty simple…
and why we need him.
January 19th, 2008 at 10:40 pmIt’s hard to win, even on the Republican side, when your only issue is hatred of Mexicans.
January 19th, 2008 at 10:42 pmjust found on C&L’s latest:
… Steve has a great point:
Let me say this again. The Republicans and the media are trying to divide the Democratic party by stenographically advancing false charges of racism and sowing the seeds of division by keeping voters mis-informed. We need to be aggressive in fighting this venomous nonsense every day.
.
g’nite all…
January 19th, 2008 at 11:02 pmGlad to hear Dunkie’s packing it in.
I think Uncle Ben’s just found their newest spokesperson.
That rice pilaf is just going to be flying off the shelves…
January 19th, 2008 at 11:28 pmWell, since the interest in Hunter’s beached campaign was waned, let’s look at a democratic candidate for his old seat:
Who is Mike Lumpkin?
Michael D. Lumpkin is an extraordinary American leader who served as the former Deputy Commander, Joint Special Operations Task Force-Arabian Peninsula for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Mike has also deployed to Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, and the Philippines in support of our nation’s ongoing Global War on Terrorism.
Mike has a Master’s Degree in National Security Affairs and he is recognized by the Department of Defense as a specialist in both the Western Hemisphere and Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict.
As a Navy SEAL, Mike served eight operational tours and one as Commanding Officer of a Team. Two of these assignments were in the Republic of Panama. In Latin America, he was formally recognized by the Armed Forces Preparedness Association for his Outstanding Contributions to National Security while conducting counter-narcotics operations.
Mike also served as the Officer in Charge of the training and readiness of all West Coast SEAL Teams. The Teams he trained performed magnificently in the invasion of both Afghanistan and Iraq while sustaining no casualties.[. . .]
January 20th, 2008 at 12:17 amI predicted that. As for Fred Thompson, he needs to look to support McCain, to get veep, and to STOP Romney and Giuliani!
http://OsiSpeaks.com or http://OsiSpeaks.org
January 20th, 2008 at 12:20 amPerhaps Hunter and Freddy of Hollywood can carpool back to Cali…
Losers.
Although with a writers’ strike, Fred’ll be stuck doing commercials: KFC, AARP, Polygrip; flashing that sh*t-sandwich smile…
January 20th, 2008 at 1:22 amSee ya’, Dunc..
∞
January 20th, 2008 at 3:20 amThank God!!!
Now get back to that doughnut assembly line…
January 20th, 2008 at 5:16 amI know the numbers in that photo are early, but Ron Paul coming in (a distant) SECOND in Nevada ahead of John McCain? LMAO.
January 20th, 2008 at 8:34 amDuncan Hunter drops GOP presidential bid…..
January 20th, 2008 at 1:30 pmAnd no one noticed ………and even less cared
Duncan Hunter was running for president?!?!?
January 20th, 2008 at 5:26 pmWhen will Edward stop wasting the state taxpayers money AGAIN and drop out consider(SIC) he doesn’t stand a chance?
Comment by Tracy2
The same applies even more so to Fred Thompson, but this is a thread about Dumbcan Hunter just in case you didn’t notice.
January 21st, 2008 at 12:52 amEdwards already had a go at this a few years back and he isn’t doing any better now.
Comment by Tracy2 — January 21, 2008 @ 2:19 pm
So why don’t you write a letter to the Edwards camp? I doubt that any of us here is in the position to tell Edwards to drop out. Meanwhile, as Nevar pointed out in #29, you yourself keep on posting here, though you have no chance of influencing any of us.
January 21st, 2008 at 5:11 pm#51 Tracy2
January 22nd, 2008 at 2:32 amIn my opinion, Edwards has every right to bring his ideas into the campaign, even if he doesn’t have a chance of winning. That’s called democracy, sonny boy. Now that my favorite candidate (Richardson) dropped out and partly thanks to you, I decided to cast my vote for Edwards.
Oops, the numbers changed. I was addressing Tracy2 — January 21, 2008 @ 7:18 pm in #50.
January 22nd, 2008 at 2:33 amThat’s my point! He already brought all of the SAME old ideas when he ran for the nomination in 2004. We have already heard his ideas….we don’t need to hear them again in 2008.
Comment by Tracy2 — January 22, 2008 @ 7:31 pm
If you paid any attention to Edwards–which you obviously don’t–, you might have noticed, for example, that he has come up with the most detailed health plan of the Dem candidates. Whether you agree with it or not, that plan is more finely honed than what he was saying in 2004. Obviously you have some strange fixation on Edwards, as you could say the same about Kucinich, whom you don’t seem to mind (because of his lovely wife maybe?), or about your posts here–the same old neo-con blather year in and year out.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:30 pmTo Tracy2
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:36 pmKucinich was right about opposing the invasion of Iraq from the start, which is a lot more than any of us here can say about your posts on the so-called nobility of the effort–an effort we also all know you are too much of a chickenhawk to join. In any case, I am sorry you have such a fixation on Edwards in a thread that is supposed to be about Dumbcan Hunter. Don’t expect me to read your links or any further posts of yours here.
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Ps. Tracy Edwards-hater,
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:18 pmYou apparently have either forgotten or don’t care that, with each election, there are new voters, who have either come of age or newly acquired citizenship between cycles. Even if Edwards’ health plan is quite similar to what he was saying in 2004, he has every right to present his message to the new voters, who, in turn, should have the right to decide whether or not to listen to him. Please find something else to bicker about, troll-boy.