(Thanks to ‘Ohio for Duncan Hunter’ for posting this: http://ohioforduncanhunter2008.blogspot.com/2007/12/duncan-hunter-is-only-candidate-to-get.html )

Duncan Hunter Is The Only Candidate To Get An “A” Rating From God Voter!

Current Status: Congressman Duncan Hunter has shared his Christian testimony.

While we don’t agree with all of his opinions, we were impressed with the majority of them and particularly impressed with his candor and courage (e.g., see his answer to question 9).

We knew very little about this Congressman from California until receiving his answers, which made us take another look. Frankly, we liked what we found, including the following:

He walks his talk. His pro-life, anti-embryonic stem cell research, anti-pornography, anti-illegal immigration and pro-strong defense positions are backed by the bills he authored, the border fence he built, his service as an Army Ranger in Vietnam and his own son having served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a US Marine.

Congressman Hunter, who has been married to one wife, is a Christian who testifies about the Lord when asked, has been re-elected six times, has gravitas, and his tenure as the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee should be useful to leading a nation fighting two wars.

Why isn’t Congressman Hunter doing better in the polls?

The main reason may be most people knowing as little about him as we knew prior to receiving his answers, simplistically as the “border guy” from a border area. We think the problem is exposure, not quality. In terms of the latter, he is the strongest candidate in the field.

Congressman Hunter, we thank you for your Christ-honoring testimony, congratulate you on your candidacy, and strongly encourage you and your staff to remain in the race to the end. We want you to win the Presidency. But even if you don’t, we think the Lord will be pleased with a candidate who ran the race focused on Him instead of the poll numbers.

Our rating for Congressman Hunter as the next President of the United States is an A.

Please click here or on Congressman Hunter’s photo above to visit his campaign website.

Hunter’s Answers


1. Are you a Christian?

Congressman Hunter: “Yes!”

2. When and how did you become a Christian?

Congressman Hunter: “I was sixteen years old.”

3. How has becoming Christian changed you?

Congressman Hunter: “Being Christian has given me the foundation to living with divine purpose.”

4. How would you define and describe your relationship with Jesus today?

Congressman Hunter: “My total dependence is knowing the Lord and walking with Him daily.”

5. In the past 12 months, how many hours have you read the bible per week?

Congressman Hunter: “I read my Bible consistently. There are scriptures that I quote daily.”

6. Which gift has the Holy Spirit given you, and what fruits has it borne?

Congressman Hunter: “My leadership skills of patience and humility are from the Holy Spirit.”

7. What has been your greatest failure as a Christian?

Congressman Hunter: “Spending more time in knowing Him.”

8. What is the greatest challenge you face today as a Christian?

Congressman Hunter: “Honoring the Lord in all that I do as a leader.”

9. If you had to choose between God and country, which would you choose?

Congressman Hunter: “By choosing the Lord, I honor my country.”

10. Whom do you think Jesus wants as our next President, and why?

Congressman Hunter: “The Lord has led me to be a part of the 2008 Presidential Race.”

11. Do you believe Jesus to be God or the Son of God? [discuss]

Congressman Hunter: “Jesus is Lord!”

12. Do you believe Jesus was born to a virgin, died and rose from the dead? [discuss]

Congressman Hunter: “Yes!”

13. Do you believe Jesus ascended to the Father and will return riding on clouds? [discuss]

Congressman Hunter: “Yes!”

(Note: Congressman Hunter responded as above to a version of question 13 that had been altered by him or his staff to omit the phrase, “riding on clouds.” )

14. Do you believe the bread & wine turn into Jesus’ flesh & blood when blessed? [discuss]

Congressman Hunter: “The bread & the wine are symbols of what Jesus did for us.”

15. Do you believe that Jesus and Satan were once brothers? [discuss]

Congressman Hunter: “No.”

16.Do you believe heaven and hell are places that really exist? [discuss]

Congressman Hunter: “Yes.”

17. Do you believe only those who obey Jesus as their master will go to heaven? [discuss]

Congressman Hunter: “Yes.”

18. Which books do you believe to have been inspired by God and without error? [discuss]

Congressman Hunter: “The Bible is God’s Word.”

19. Which passage(s) from those books troubles you, and how do you deal with it?

Congressman Hunter: “I honor the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.”

20. The beliefs of which Christian leader alive today resembles your beliefs?

Congressman Hunter: “Dr. Billy Graham.”

21. What is your position on a Constitutional ban on abortion, and why? [discuss]

Congressman Hunter: “I support a Constitutional ban on abortion, because I have authored the law, ‘Life Begins at Conception’.”

22. What is your position on a Constitutional ban on same sex marriage, and why? [discuss]

Congressman Hunter: “I support a Constitutional ban, because marriage is between a man and woman.”

23. What is your position on embryonic stem cell research, and why? [discuss]

Congressman Hunter: “I am opposed to stem cell research because of my bill, “Life Begins at Conception.”

24. What is your position on prayers and bible studies in schools, and why?

Congressman Hunter: “People have the freedom of religion and schools should honor voluntary groups that want to exercise religious freedom.”

25. What is your position on capital punishment, and why? [discuss]

Congressman Hunter: “I do support and honor our American justice system concerning those who take the life of another person.”

26. If elected, the ban on what type of guns, if any, would you support, and why? [discuss]

Congressman Hunter: “I do not support any ban on guns for American citizens. Americans can be regulated and trusted to handle any type of guns.”

27. If elected, what will you do about (Internet) pornography, and how? [discuss]

Congressman Hunter: “I will continue to enforce laws that require the pornography industry and others to protect our children and youth.”

28. If elected, what will you do about the health care system, and how? [discuss]

Congressman Hunter: “Seek ways to provide health care at more affordable cost such as removing barriers from state to state pricing.”

29. If elected, what will you seek to achieve in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how?

[discuss]Hunter: “Our goal is democracy and victory! Stay on the present course we are on and soon American troops will be coming back home.”

30. If elected, what will you seek to achieve in Iran and North Korea, and how? [discuss]

Congressman Hunter: “My goals for Iran and Korea would be a determined elimination of any threat concerning all nuclear programs.”

(http://www.godvoter.org/Duncan-Hunter-rating.html)

Right to Life Amendment

I would amend the U.S. Constitution and provide blanket protection to all unborn children from the moment of conception by prohibiting any state or federal law that denies the personhood of the unborn. Likewise, I have also introduced the Right to Life Act, which would legally define “personhood” as the moment of conception and, therefore, guarantee all constitutional rights and protections, including life, to the unborn without utilizing a constitutional amendment.

(from www.gohunter08.com

This column ran in local newspapers July 19th in association with the Hunter interview posted below, from Tom McLaughlin

Congressman Duncan Hunter is running for president and I had a chance to interview him last week for a web site I’ve been working at called Family Security Matters. My experience with candidates running for national office over the years has been what I’d have to call underwhelming and I was bracing myself for more of the same, but I was very pleasantly surprised to discover that Duncan Hunter is different. Here is a man who knows exactly what he thinks and he states it plainly. I wasn’t ready for that, but I found it refreshing – very refreshing. If this man gets more exposure, I suspect that many other Americans will like it too. Every time I asked a question, I got a straight answer. He didn’t equivocate. I don’t think it’s in his nature.

Hunter is a decorated Vietnam combat veteran, a former Army Ranger. He’s been a congressman for twenty-six years and was chairman of the House Armed Services for four years until Democrats regained majority control last November. Although lacking in name recognition, Hunter is strongest on the two issues that have emerged as those which concern ordinary Americans most – national security and illegal immigration. I’d never heard of Duncan Hunter until I saw him debate the rest of the Republican candidates on television. He stood out and I wondered, “Who is this guy?”

Two weeks ago, the president and the Congress were trying for the second time this year to ram through an illegal alien amnesty bill. Although it had bipartisan support, a vast majority of Americans strongly opposed rewarding people who violated our laws by sneaking into the United States and giving them priority over other immigrants who waited in line and went by the rules. As a vote for cloture came up in the Senate, their switchboard short-circuited due to an unprecedented volume of calls, nearly all in opposition. Twelve senators switched their votes at the last minute and the bill failed again. I began to realize that Congressman Hunter has been out front on this issue for years – and nobody in government has done more to stop the invasion across our southern border than he has.

When I asked him how, as president, he would deal with illegal immigration, he said: “You know, I wrote the bill that mandates a border fence that was signed into law by the president. That’s the 850 miles of border fence that is now mandated to be constructed across Arizona and New Mexico and Texas . . . it’s a double fence with a border patrol road in between. I built the fence in San Diego which has reduced the smuggling out there of people and narcotics by more than ninety percent. The 854-mile fence is mandated to be constructed across the major smuggler’s corridors in those three states . . . That will go a long way toward enforcement of the border, which is key not only to the immigration issue, but also to the security issue. So . . . I’d just simply carry out the very law that I wrote as a congressman . . .

He believes the United States will prevail in Iraq and defines victory as “ a country that is a friend, not an enemy of the United States – a country that has a modicum of freedom and which will not be a state sponsor of terrorism.” When I asked him how important the propaganda war is in our struggle against Radical Islam, he responded: “Here’s what I would say: with the emergence of mass media since [World War II], the emergence of things like the internet, the proliferation of television stations and radio stations around the world, has minimized the ability of any one entity to shape the news. Now I would say that what I call the “American example,” that is, just the basic decency and goodness of the American people that is manifested in lots and lots of activities, like the fact that we undertook – in the tsunami – we undertook an airlift that was bigger than any airlift since the Berlin Airlift. We responded with the American fleet to humanitarian requirements in a way that was totally unprecedented. I think the world takes note of that. I also think that in Iraq, al Qaeda for example, in driving these bomb-laden trucks into crowds of women and children, has damaged its image in the Muslim world. I think that’s been evidenced by the new move by the Sunni population in Anbar Province against al Qaeda leadership and the turnaround that we’ve seen in cities like Fallujah and Hamadi.”

When I asked him how he interprets the Second Amendment, he said: “Well, the right to keep and bear arms – I think that’s a very important part of homeland security. The ability of a person to own and maintain a firearm and to protect his house and his community and his country is an important part of our national security. I’m also a big hunter but I think hunting is not the reason you’ve got a right to keep and bear arms. [It’s for] personal security and the security of our community and our country.”

Here is a genuine conservative candidate. Republican conservatives disappointed with their party’s performance of late will find Congressman Duncan Hunter very refreshing. You can read the entire interview on my blog here http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2007/07/hunter-is-different.html

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Hunter for President in 2008

Today is a day to sit down and reflect on all the blessings that we have. One thing I know that we all have in common, is the blessing of a free country. A safe country. Men and women risking their lives on the other side of the world to protect us. We have these and many more blessings in common.

Yet these blessings are under attack. We can sit here today and merely appreciate them, or we can resolve to do something to protect them.

We have an open, unprotected border. We have millions of illegals taking jobs Americans want, and living off of our tax dollars without paying taxes themselves. In the upcoming election, we have a Senator from Tennessee that spent much of his career making it easy for illegals to work here. We have a Senator and Vietnam veteran who led the charge to give amnesty to illegals and put off building the fence. We have a mayor of NYC who stood up for sanctuary city policies. We have a governor from one of the most liberal states in the union.

Duncan Hunter is the one to stand up for a secure border. He built a border fence in San Diego, and has a perfect rating from Americans for Better Immigration because he has NEVER voted for amnesty, and has stood up for increased penalties on companies that hire illegals.

Many of us are thankful today for the blessing of having families that love us. Today, two border patrol agents sit in prison while their familes gather for Thanksgiving Day. The crime of these agents? They were doing their job, protecting our country from a dangerous, illegal alien trying to cross the border. The other day, President Bush pardoned two turkeys for Thanksgiving…while two of our patriots remain imprisoned away from their families.

Duncan Hunter promises to pardon Ramos and Compean when he is elected president. No other candidate has made such a promise. And while all the other candidates have been sitting with their consultants figuring out how to appear conservative, Duncan Hunter was writing a letter urging President Bush to pardon Ramos and Compean for Thanksgiving.

Right now, we have a trade deficit that is growing by 20 billion dollars a year. We are losing jobs by the truckload. We have nearly no manufacturers, which provide high-paying jobs and American quality equipment for our troops. The reason for this catastrophe? Most Favored Nation trade status with China, where we are being cheated by millions of trade dollars… trade dollars that are being used by China to build missiles, ships, rockets, guns, and selling a lot of them to insurgents that are killing our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Duncan Hunter is the ONLY candidate to have voted against Most Favored Nation trade status, predicting all the problems it would create. Fred Thompson voted yes. John McCain voted yes. Ron Paul voted yes and said he would do it again. Tom Tancredo voted yes (but in his defense, he admits that it was a mistake). Mike Huckabee is extremely happy that China is now becoming part of the mainstream
Duncan Hunter tried to pass a bill that would force China to play by the rules, and as president promises to fix these bad trade deals.

Government spending is out of control, while we continue to exhibit less stewardship in our defense spending.

Duncan Hunter is a stickler for making sure we have the weapons and equipment our military needs, and for cutting spending elsewhere. Duncan will support an amendment to require a balanced budget, and for drastically cutting all other spending so we may increase defense spending.

1/3 of my generation has been killed. 1/3 of my generation is missing right now. 1/3 of my generation was aborted. Right now, more children have been aborted in the United States than the numbers of deaths under Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini combined.

Fred Thompson does not support a constitutional amendment to protect the unborn, saying that it should be left up to the states. In other words, the rights of the state usurp the rights of human beings. Or maybe Fred doesn’t believe they’re human beings. Rudy Giuliani is adamantly pro-choice. Mitt Romney used to be very pro-choice, and who knows if he will “change his mind” again. Duncan Hunter wrote a bill to define life at conception, which would make the 14th amendment of the Constitution apply to protect the unborn. Duncan Hunter will continue work for that bill, or a Constitutional amendment to protect life, and will not elect a judge unless they can see a sonagram and see a valuable, precious, human life.

Duncan Hunter supports school vouchers which places education back into the hands of the parents.

Duncan Hunter supports a constitutional amendment to protect marriage.

Duncan Hunter supports, and was an original co-sponsor of the Fair Tax

Duncan Hunter supports low taxes.

Duncan Hunter supports our troops.

Duncan Hunter was labeled an enemy by a Soviet Union newspaper, during the Cold War.

Duncan Hunter worked alongside Ronald Reagan.

Yes, we have many great blessings to be grateful for… but take a moment today not just to reflect upon what we have, but what we’re losing and what we must do to protect it.

Duncan Hunter is wrapping up a big fund-raiser this month to give him that last big push so the people can find out who Duncan Hunter is. Instead of going out and shopping tomorrow (and buying hundreds of dollars in Chinese-made products), give some money to Duncan’s campaign. Give a little to the only candidate standing up for the strength and prosperity of this country and for ending the things in the way.

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Some say that Duncan can’t win. By saying that, however, you’re only becoming part of the problem you’re complaining of. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Stop being a part of the problem you’re complaining about. Stand up for what’s RIGHT, and what’s RIGHT can win.

Keep on Hunting, and may the Lord bless you and yours, and our great country, on this Thanksgiving day;

SK Johnson

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Bernie Dolan Wants You to Know About Duncan Hunter
By – Beth LaMontagne
(November 21, 2007) New Hampshire voters haven’t seen or heard much of presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., this campaign season, but Pittsfield resident Bernie Dolan wants to change that. An engineer who moved to New Hampshire three years ago from Massachusetts, Nolan has taken on a volunteer role as the deputy New Hampshire campaign director.

Nolan has no previous campaign experience, but he’s also never been inspired to get involved by anyone like Hunter has inspired him. In a recent interview with NHpols.com on his car ride home from work, Nolan talks about his new role with the Hunter campaign, his past political leanings (he’s been a fan of both Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy), and about Hunter’s chances in the New Hampshire primary.

Have you ever been involved in politics before?

“Other than voting and that sort of thing, I’ve never been involved in a campaign. Then again, I’ve never come across somebody who has a set of core beliefs that are very much like mine. … Whether moving away [from] government-sponsored health care, or politicians who talk about government this and government that, [Hunter wants to] let the individual do it.”

What made you decide to go with Duncan Hunter?

“The biggest reason was that I didn’t see anybody else who even came remotely close to [Hunter’s views]. Compare him with what I see on the Democratic side, when I see [the Democrats] speak of nationalized health care, I get scared. If you look at any endeavor the government tried to run, they haven’t done a good job. Take a look at Social Security. If a company ran Social Security like the government does, they not only would be fired, but criminal charges would be filed against them.”

When did you take on this role as volunteer state director?

“I stumbled across his Web site … and I said, ‘yes, I like what I see,’ I signed up [on the site] and said ‘I can volunteer to do a couple things.’ I got a few responses asking me, can I do this, can I do that. [I told them] I am married and have three children and a job that requires some travel.”

What have you been doing in the state to get out the word out about Hunter?

“Basically, I’m trying to get the boundaries of the job down. I’m relatively new to this. I’m trying to get [in touch with] the NHGOP, there is a Meetup group organizing. It is relatively small now because people don’t know much about him. I guess that would be my job.

“I’m sure there is a certain amount of people who are looking at Mr. Hunter who are probably very similar [to me]. … There is no big campaign budget to allow you to hire people to organize and stand at the corner with different signs. Everyone is living their lives.”

As a volunteer, how do you squeeze in the time to get work done for Hunter?

“You conduct interviews on the drive home and hope you doesn’t say something bad. You try to work around it.”

Are you in close contact with the national campaign?

“Yes. There was a lot of e-mail going back and forth today. Different media outlets are looking for a direct quote on different issues. … I want it to come directly [from] the candidate himself. I’m not going to pretend to speak for somebody. … I’m not going to say, ‘this is his stance.’ It’s not my place to do so. … I will say that everything I’ve read, if you look at his voting record, he has a very consistent record you can track. In my opinion he’s the best person for the job.”

Hunter is somewhat of a long-shot candidate. What do you consider a successful run in New Hampshire for him?

“I would be real happy seeing him win New Hampshire. If our campaign can come together quickly — what are we voting, next week? — I’m not playing for second place or third place. It is my opinion that the more people find out more about Mr. Hunter, the more they are going to say he’s the one to lead this nation forward. … To play for second, that doesn’t work for me.”

Fred Thompson – The New Al Gore?

This one is going to cause a stir in Republican ranks. With all due respect to our fellow bloggers, We Scooped You!

Alexander J. Madison – 11/19/07

Just as the fond memories of Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign may be fading from our collective memories, it appears that some Republican candidates are busy trying on the former Vice President’s glass slippers. As is well documented, Algore had a penchant for telling some pretty tall tales and generally making an ass of himself. From his fibs about working the tobacco fields, to the phony story about a grandma recycling aluminum cans to buy medicine, to his false claims of flying with the FEMA director to check out Texas wildfires, to his role in founding the internet, to his “I didn’t realize I was in a Buddhist temple” remark, to having the water adjusted in the Connecticut River for a photo-op canoe ride, Algore is rightfully a clownish laughingstock to all but the most committed leftists. Unfortunately, the inability to level with the American people is certainly not a malady affecting only democrats.

Rudy Giuliani now claims that he “understands the 2nd Amendment”, after an entire career of proving definitively he not only does not understand it, he abhors it. Rudy justified his 2000 lawsuit against 26 US firearms manufacturers by claiming they “overproduced guns, way beyond what is necessary for hunting and law enforcement”. That one statement alone should have been enough for the GOP to banish him forever from the party. Instead, the liberal gun-grabber is the current front runner.

Mike Huckabee claims to have been an aggressive ‘tax cutter’ while in the Arkansas governor’s chair. Yet you will find folks from the National Taxpayer’s Union, the CATO Institute, and every independent organization that evaluates such records give the Huckster abysmal grades. Of course, his recent statements that he never supported amnesty for illegal aliens are also patently false, unless one believes that the McCain-Kennedy bill was something other than amnesty. And trust me, no conservative believes that.

John McCain? Well, let’s just say he still believes his McCain-Kennedy bill was not amnesty and that McCain-Feingold-Thompson is not an assault on the Constitution. Delusions perhaps, but not lies. His many Gorgasms, however, cover many years. Not the least of which is his claim these days to support the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003; and the only reason he opposed them then was to force concurrent spending restraints. Pure balderdash. In 2001 McCain bellowed on the Senate floor, “I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans who need tax relief.”. I guess I’d contemplate lying too if I had sounded like a clone of John Kerry during the tax cut debates.

Mitt Romney does not have a guy in a dolphin suit following him around for no reason. The other candidates all call him Flip Romney. Genuine movements toward conservative positions are always welcome. However, fudging one’s history to bolster conservative bona fides is not. Perhaps the most hilarious example is his claim to be a lifelong hunter, only to find out he took some pot shots as a kid at some rodents. Today, he can honestly say he is lifetime member of the NRA (the same group he derided as Massachusetts Governor) – he bought a lifetime membership last year. Too funny.

But perhaps the most egregious Gorelian republican has been Fred Dalton Thompson. He seems to have a difficult time either remembering his past or owning up to it. My guess is the latter, since he remembers in vivid detail the good things he had proposed or championed- fighting for Federalism, voting for tax cuts, etc – during his stint in office. But when it comes to the hairy turds he let drop during his Senate career, he dashes for the polishing kit in lieu of confessing to a change of position. For a candidate that fancies himself a straight talker, his 2008 campaign has been anything but. Then again, John Edwards claims to be a straight talker as well, and I still have not figured out if his haircut was $400 or $1200.

For starters, just replay Fred’s early September 2007 interview with Laura Ingraham. After the usual niceties, Laura attempts to get down to brass tacks on Fred’s role in, and support of, the Campaign Finance Reform abomination. Fred Thompson was front and center in the efforts to get this anti-constitutional leviathan passed into law from its inception in 1995. He also used his position as chairmen of the China-Gate hearings to craft a months long advertisement for CFR, investigating folks like the Christian Coalition and Americans for Tax Reform, to show how bipartisan ‘the problem’ was. No Fred, the problem was communist Chinese influence peddling and cash, not conservative or liberal American interest groups. But interrupted by Laura – “Fred, what about the issue ads?” – while attempting a long-winded filibuster and defense of the other 50 pages of CFR regulation, Fred finally bellied up to the bar and said this: “Now THEY added on something that was a mistake. And that is the issue ads you were talking about, and I voted for all of it, so I support the first part, but I don’t support that.”

George Will took Fred to the woodshed for this dissembling. First, it was not “they” who “added on something that was a mistake”. It was fully endorsed and sponsored by one Fred Thompson. And it was not an add-on either. It was a very critical and perhaps the most controversial part of CFR. And it was hatched by Olympia Snowe, Jim Jeffords and Fred Thompson a full 4 years prior to CFR winning passage in 2001. It was lambasted in the conservative media, yet Fred defended it not only during the Senate debates, but also in the Supreme Court when it was challenged 2 years later. I guess it depends on what the meaning of “they” is, Fred?

Then we have the kerfuffle over the LA Times abortion lobbying story. What should have been a minor embarrassment easily swept away turned out to be another major chink in the honesty department instead. First, Fred sent his spokesman Mark Corallo out to issue a blanket denial to the Times: “Fred Thompson did not lobby for this group, period. There’s no documents to prove it, there’s no billing records, and Thompson says he has no recollection of it, says it didn’t happen.” Two days later, as the story snowballed, Corallo corrected the blanket denial to:

“He has no recollection of doing any work for this group. And since he was of counsel and not a member of the firm, it was not unusual for the firm’s partners to trot their clients in to meet him, get his views and even some advice.”

Then the billing records for lobbying were indeed uncovered as well as the phone logs that show Thompson talked directly to the head of the abortionist group, Judith DeSarno, a whopping 22 times. The notion that an ostensibly ‘pro-life’ (more on that later) individual could not remember servicing a pro-abortion outfit is patently absurd, and false.

When it comes to global warming, 2008 presidential candidate Thompson made quite a stir and rallied much conservative enthusiasm with his ABC Radio commentary this past March. He sounded like a genuine skeptic when he mockingly mentioned the warming “fever” that apparently has spread to Mars and Jupiter. He added, “This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists who run their air-conditioning at 60 degrees and refuse to recycle.” Great stuff, indeed.

Unfortunately, during his last year in office, Fred had a radically different take on global warming. In fact, Mr. Thompson was a cosponsor of the most radical legislation to be crammed down America’s throat in the last decade, with the possible exception of McCain-Feingold-Thompson. And it was well hidden in an omnibus spending bill, no less. This monstrosity is called DIVISION D—INTEGRATION OF ENERGY POLICY AND CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY. TITLE X—NATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY.

It was originally a Tom Daschle creation to address global warming and inserted into Amendment 2917 to Senate appropriations bill S. 517. But the Centrist Coalition got their paws on it and led by Senators Bingaman, Snowe, Hagel, John Kerry and Fred Thompson, they offered a substitute for Title X, which was approved. To read the text of this boondoggle, go to the hyper link embedded below, adjacent to TEXT OF AMENDMENT AS SUBMITTED. Here are the basics:

S.AMDT.3232
Amends: S.517 , S.AMDT.2917
Sponsor: Sen Bingaman, Jeff [NM] (submitted 4/22/2002) (proposed 4/23/2002)

AMENDMENT PURPOSE:
To establish a national climate change policy.

TEXT OF AMENDMENT AS SUBMITTED: CR S3054-3059

STATUS:

4/23/2002:

Amendment SA 3232 proposed by Senator Bingaman to Amendment SA 2917. (consideration: CR S3145-3148)

4/23/2002:

Amendment SA 3232 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

COSPONSORS(8):

Sen Murkowski, Frank H. [AK] – 4/22/2002
Sen Byrd, Robert C. [WV] – 4/22/2002
Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. [CT] – 4/22/2002
Sen Thompson, Fred [TN] – 4/22/2002
Sen Hollings, Ernest F. [SC] – 4/22/2002
Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] – 4/22/2002
Sen Hagel, Chuck [NE] – 4/22/2002
Sen Snowe, Olympia J. [ME] – 4/22/2002

But to briefly summarize this thing, it is a bill that declares that man made Global Warming is occurring. For example, the list of 12 ‘findings’ include:

(1) Evidence continues to build that increases in atmospheric concentrations of man-made greenhouse gases are contributing to global climate change.

(4) The IPCC has stated that in the last 40 years, the global average sea level has risen, ocean heat content has increased, and snow cover and ice extent have decreased, which threatens to inundate low-lying island nations and coastal regions throughout the world.

(8) There is a shared international responsibility to address this problem, as industrial nations are the largest historic and current emitters of greenhouse gases and developing nations’ emissions will significantly increase in the future.

It continues on for many dozens of pages that make mincemeat out of virtually every government entity remotely related to energy or not. It included this “Sense of the Congress” as well:

(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of the United States Congress that the United States should demonstrate international leadership and responsibility in reducing the health, environmental, and economic risks posed by climate change by:

(1) taking responsible action to ensure significant and meaningful reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases from all sectors:

(2) creating flexible international and domestic mechanisms, including joint implementation, technology deployment, tradable credits for emissions reductions and carbon sequestration projects that will reduce, avoid, and sequester greenhouse gas emissions; and

(3) participating in international negotiations, including putting forth a proposal to the Conference of the Parties, with the objective of securing United States’ participation in a future binding climate change Treaty in a manner that is consistent with the environmental objectives of the UNFCCC, that protects the economic interests of the United States, and recognizes the shared international responsibility for addressing climate change, including developing country participation.

And to top it off, they appropriated over 5 billion dollars for this bill!! The largest portion under the new Director of the Department Office:

(1) USE OF AVAILABLE APPROPRIATIONS.—From funds made available to Federal agencies for the fiscal year in which this subtitle is enacted, the President shall provide such sums as are necessary to carry out the duties of the Department Office under this subtitle until the date on which funds are made available under paragraph (2).

(2) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary, to carry out the duties of the Department Office under this subtitle, $4,750,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2003 through 2011, to remain available through September 30, 2011.

(3) ADDITONAL AMOUNTS.—Amounts authorized to be appropriated under this section shall be in addition to— (A) amounts made available to carry out the United States Global Change Research Program under the Global Change Research Act of 1990 (15 U.S.C. 2921 et seq.); and (B) amounts made available under other provisions of law for energy research and development.

This bill, my friends, is a crime against the United States: For succumbing to the Algore inspired hysteria, for leading directly towards an internationally binding, sovereignty usurping treaty, and for hiding this beast in the bowels of an omnibus spending bill. And yet the co-author is still considered a viable GOP candidate because he can currently spin a good yarn?!? Rudy, Mitt, Huckabee, and Algore combined have not done as much damage to the USA as what this law does.

And this brings us to another area where Fred Dalton Thompson has not squared his electioneering rhetoric with his moderate past. In the last few weeks, Fred has taken a liking to a new campaign slogan, repeated in several versions on the campaign trail. It is this: “With me, what you see is what you get. I was a conservative yesterday. I’m a conservative today and I’ll be a conservative tomorrow. And all my new buddies now running for president who have found the beauties of conservativism, I say, ‘Welcome to the club.’”

Considering Fred’s membership in the Senate’s loathsome Centrist Coalition for nearly his entire stay in office, his lead roles in McCain-Feingold-Thompson and the above mentioned Title X global warming spending spree, his weak kneed positions on illegal immigration where he showed ZERO leadership on the issue, his enthusiastic co-chairmanship of the McCain 2000 presidential run, his support of liberal mentor Howard Baker over Ronald Reagan in 1980, his attempts – along with Feingold and John Kerry – to snuff out the B-2 bomber program, his awful record on education, his late blooming support for the National Endowment for the Arts, his ineffectual and purposely diluted investigation into China-gate, his selective use of federalist principles (he and bill Frist gave Robert Byrd a run for our money), and his waffling on one or the Articles of Impeachment against Slick Willy, it is impossible to characterize his Senate career as ‘conservative’. When folks ranging from Sally Quinn to EJ Dionne to Richard Viguerie to Ann Coulter consider you a moderate, you ARE a moderate!

Finally, he has attempted to sweep his previous pro-choice sentiments completely under the rug. In fact, he gave the old “I don’t remember” defense several times, earlier this spring. Whether it was his direct quotes such as “The ultimate decision must be made by the women. Government should treat its citizens as adults capable of making moral decisions on their own”, or the multiple questionnaires filed during his 1994 and 1996 campaigns that demonstrated his pro-choice positions, or the multitudes of news outlets describing him as pro-choice, Fred was in no way a pro-lifer. His all purpose trump card is that he voted for certain restrictions on abortion when they came before the Senate. However, as Ramesh Ponnuru at National Review and many others have pointed out repeatedly, these votes do not make one pro-life; Pro-restrictions, but not pro life. Fred had stated more than once that he was not in favor of ANY restrictions during the 1^st trimester. That is PRO-CHOICE. Yet he prances around the country in his Gucci loafers pretending he has always been against abortion. Amazing.

Algore was nailed to the wall for his fabrications and revisionist history, even at times by the MSM. And trust me, fellow conservatives, Fred Thompson will be filleted and de-boned like an Atlantic Mackerel by the press and the democrats if he manages to win the GOP nomination. Our goal should be to prevent that possibility, and save ourselves the embarrassment, by electing a real conservative that does not have a long distance relationship with the truth. The future of our Republic depends on it!

1. Congressman Hunter responds to Ron Paul’s plea to bring the troops home

2. Congressman Hunter explains how Giuliani, McCain, and Romney are the Kennedy Wing of the Republican Party

3. Congressman Hunter responds to Governor Romney’s socialized healthcare plan

4. Congressman Hunter explains Senator Thompson, and Senator McCain’s support of Most Favored Nation Trade Status with China and the dangers it has wrought.

Duncan Hunter is the Republican wing of the Republican party… and the next President of the United States!