Can I Get Change For My Two Cents?

Deborah Venable

12/28/07

Long, long ago in a world where the presidential election started to take shape far too early I remember thinking, “Wow! That Huckabee guy sounds like the real deal!”

I also remember thinking, “Fred Thompson could be a real contender in this race – one that I could really get behind!”

I also joined other conservatives in the hope that maybe “Newt” would get his name in the hat, in the wish that “Rudy” was not such a social liberal, in the suspicion that “Mitt” might be more of an opportunist in politics than he ever was in business, and that no matter how he saddled this horse, John McCain was still going to mount it from the wrong side and ride it to the middle of the left stream.

I’ve always liked Alan Keyes and respected a lot of Ron Paul’s positions too, but they both have too much baggage to get off the ground, and these days a serious contender must be able to fly!

Tom Tancredo had a lot going for him in honesty, but never quite enough in viability I thought. It seems I had that one figured right.

So, whom does that leave?

I am left with the best candidate the Republicans have put forth since Ronald Reagan. I just wish he could receive the same exposure that Reagan enjoyed back then. My candidate of choice for the presidency is and always has been Duncan Hunter, Republican U.S. Representative from California.

It would seem that most of my conservative friends have decided to throw their support elsewhere, though, in an attempt to support a “real winner”. Actually, most of the prominent conservatives are either choosing to stay out of the primary endorsement arena or to put their efforts into negative commentary about the various candidates they don’t support. Both tactics are less than effective for conservatives at this point, and I daresay both are dangerous if we are not willing to endorse a wise vote.

As I said in my previous article, The Cheap Seats, money walks and talks because money buys media exposure, and media exposure – positive, negative, or absent wins or loses elections. Conservatives, already hobbled by liberal media bias, should not play the “wait and see” game during the primary process unless they are willing to almost always accept a secondary choice for the general election. Very seldom will the best choice be endowed with the most money and positive media exposure. That’s just one of those election facts of life.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that Joseph Farah, publisher of World Net Daily, has decided to support Duncan Hunter, and I have heard Ann Coulter offhandedly mention him as her candidate of choice a couple of times. His name DOES come up every now and then. Indeed, he even won the Republican Texas Straw Poll last summer in a landslide. A few other prominent conservative voices have been added to the chatter about Representative Hunter, and I would recommend a little individual research to find out just what is being said about this all too obscure candidate.

We definitely NEED a conservative in the White House for some time to come if we are to survive as the America we all love. Unless conservatives insist on a true conservative though, what we may end up with is a further deterioration of conservative values or the total disaster of a liberal victory.

Let me close with this quote from the candidate himself:

“When the candidates were asked by the Des Moines Register this year what they would like their legacies to be, Hunter provided the shortest answer:

‘I would like to see a country where the day I walk out of the White House, after a couple of terms, the American people are more independent of government than the day that I walked in.’

And in Hunter’s case, he has a long career to prove he means it.”

Source - Vision vs. Pandering: Why Duncan Hunter Is the Only Choice - Part I by Alexander J. Madison

I ask all conservatives, what more could we hope for?

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