Hunter's a smart guy, and he knows his biggest stumbling block in a achieving a successful end to his quest is the same thing that plagues all members of the House of Representatives who run for the top job: name recognition.
In fact, no member of the House has gone from the lower chamber to the White House since James A. Garfield did it in 1880, and it took him 36 ballots for him to win his party's nod.
On the flipside, one of the benefits of the longer presidential campaign season is that it gives lower-tier candidates time to break out of the pack. Howard Dean did it in 2004 for the Democrats, but of course he imploded. For a while he had a seat at the head table, and a more solid, saner candidate such as Hunter could make lightening strike twice for the back-of-the-packers.
One interesting thing I learned in the podcast is that Rep. Hunter doesn't think "hate crimes" shouldn't be punished worse that "regular" crimes. Speaking within the context of murder, Hunter tells Reynolds and Smith, "one victim is not less valuable than another victim."
Hunter son, Duncan Duane Hunter, is a Marine officer stationed in Iraq, as he was in 2004 when Michael Moore made the bogus claim in his crock-u-mentary Fahrenheit 9/11 that no children of members of Congress were serving in Iraq.
Hunter, true to his surname, is a hunter, as he explains in the podcast.
On an unrelated note, blogger John Hawkins of Right Wing News is working as a consultant to the Hunter presidential campaign.
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