Is It Too Early To Talk About The Next Republican Vice-President?

While most attention is focused on Guiliani, Romney, McCain and Thompson, there’s one man in the race for the presidential nomination who deserves much more attention from us – Duncan Hunter.

Duncan Hunter was not at 9/11, like Guiliani. Duncan Hunter was not businesslike savior of the Olympics like Romney. Duncan Hunter was not a POW like McCain. Duncan Hunter is not a fine, folksy actor of principles like Thompson. Any of the leading candidates would be infinitely better than the defeatist chorus line the Democrats dance with.

Duncan Hunter, however, quietly served on not one but all those fronts as the leading Republicans. And, he isn’t a fancy dancer away from country, responsibility or truth as are the Democrats.

As Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, no one contributed more to making sure we had what we need to fight. As innovator in defense procurement, and loud voice for fairer trade so we have the capacity to stage first class weaponry, he’s shown more business-sense than the exporters of our industry to virtual slave-labor cheap wage countries. As a highly-decorated combat enlisted man in Vietnam, Hunter’s courage under fire and oneness with the man with boots on the ground is unsurpassed. As a straight-talking common-man, Hunter’s messages are clear and grounded in a lifetime of real experience.

I know that the others have the lead, and will probably retain it, and that electing a president is about appealing to the center. But, when it comes to actually governing, not getting rolled by the enticements of Washington, the permanent opposition to American greatness, the chattering class ignorant of service and sacrifice above all, we need a real man and patriot in the White House, who knows how to get things done and won’t budge till it is. Duncan Hunter is that man. He’s not only the guy you want to share a beer with; he’s the man who deserves to be bought a round.

Check out his website. Learn more about him. Sign up for him, at least as indicator to the maneuvering politicos who control the Republican Party about where the heart beats and the mission America requires.