Reply #5: So apparently is Duncan Hunter [View All]

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http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/01/30/who_is_duncan_hunter_kidding.php

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Among the less spectacular news stories of last week was the one about Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., announcing his bid for the presidency from Spartanburg, S.C. His picture, accompanying the article near the bottom of an inside page in the New York Times , was a side shot with his right ear toward the camera. Though partially covered with unpresidential shaggy hair in need of a trim, the ear didn’t look like it was made of tin. But of course it must be. Why else would a 14-term backbencher whose platform includes support for the war, opposition to stem-cell research and outlawing abortion, believe he could buck the mood of the electorate so loudly proclaimed by the voters in 2006?

He didn’t listen, that’s why—not even to voters in his home state. And neither, apparently, did Senator Sam Brownback, R-Kan., who announced for the Republican nomination a few days earlier with virtually the same platform, save a modest concession that the war is going badly. I don’t think these guys have heard the news. Women are the majority of voters and can control any election. Republican women are part of that vote and when things go too far on the candidate’s phony “cultural issues,” or threaten to sacrifice the futures of their kids and grandkids in service of a war they no longer support, they leave those suburban soccer fields and go vote their priorities. And their priorities are not sending more troops to Iraq, their daughters back to the back alleys or putting an end to life-saving stem cell research.
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I'm waiting for the discussion on Kucinich.