The clock is ticking for West Virginia Republicans to sign up as delegates for the party's Feb. 5 "Tsunami Tuesday" presidential convention.
As The Associated Press reports, the GOP had 344 of 1,446 slot filled as of Nov. 23, and the deadline is Friday.
Among some highlights:
- Fred Thompson has 55 delegates including: Senate Minority Leader Don Caruth, R-Mercer; House Minority Leader Tim Armstead, R-Kanawha; former congressman Mick Staton.
- Mitt Romney has 49, including: National Committeewoman Donna Gosney; state school board Vice President Priscilla Haden; former state Supreme Court Justice John McCuskey; Sue McKinney, Harrison County GOP chair and wife of the state chairman.
- Rudy Giuliani has 37, including: Wood County Commission President Rick Modesitt; Sens. Frank Deem of Wood County and Vic Sprouse of Kanawha.
- John McCain has 7: Mason County Commissioner Miles Epling; Fayette County GOP Chairman Gary Lilly; former lawmaker and veteran lobbyist Larry Swann.
- Mike Huckabee, 6: Ashley Stinnett, head of the state's Federation of Young Republicans.
- Duncan Hunter, 4: Marion County GOP Chairman Andrew Sabak.
- Ron Paul has 38, the third-most behind Thompson and Romney. Nearly all of his delegates are "at-large," instead of state or county party officials.
So far, two counties, Kanawha and Pleasants, have enough "at-large" delegate candidates to require elections in January. Fourteen counties have seen anyone file yet for an at-large spot.
Here's an updated candidate list:
Candidate Delegates
Rudy Giuliani 46
Mike Huckabee 6
Duncan Hunter 4
Alan Keyes 0
John McCain 9
Ron Paul 49
Mitt Romney 63 (now 1st)
Fred Thompson 62
Gene Zarwell 0
Uncommitted: 241
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It is the Time for Choosing the Man
I am going to talk of controversial issue here. I make no apology for this. It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, "We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self government."
As the great Ronald Reagan said, “You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream--the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism”.
Our Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people that just the facts. And they knew when a government sets out to do that; it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.
Most of our Democrat and Republican candidates say and you know, always with the best of intentions, "What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power." But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.
Yet any time you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders dirt bags, we're denounced as being opposed to their humanitarian goals. It seems impossible to legitimately debate their solutions with the assumption that all of us share the desire to help the less fortunate. They tell us we're always "against," never "for" anything and we have no hart at all.
I ask, do we Have the courage and the will to face up to the problems we face as a nation and are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community and our selves? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine as we fight. As Ronald Reagan said “We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.
Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business and your freedom”. If some among you fear about taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from where ever, or even from the government, you better recognize that you are just feeding the beast hoping he'll eat you last. If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think about what's at stake and what you are about to give up.
We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from his beginning to the stars. There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States, stop illegal immigration, securing our nation’s borders and a fair tax system for all. Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of disaster.
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers, We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits--not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."
(Ronald Reagan) “If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children will say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done”.
If you consider yourself as a Reagan Republican or a Reagan Democrat or just a conservative please spend time studying where Duncan Hunter stands on the issue. I can say this Duncan Hunter adheres to the Reagan philosophy on most all issue. I can not say that about the others Republicans that are running.
I do think if Ronald Reagan were here to day, he would say that, Duncan Hunter is a true conservative and the best man for the job.
Now more than ever in this day and time we the people are responsible for the character of our Government. If that Government body is ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, which it is, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and moral, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature.
So I say as a Reagan Republican, I will vote for Duncan Hunter and work to put him in the white house 2008. There is much work to be done. The time is short. Let us begin - in earnest - now and may God bless our efforts.
I invite you to join the Duncan Hunter team for America at http://www.gohunter08.com/index.asp and help put him in the white house in 2008. I invite you to donate all you can for America and Freedom.
Russell M Scott :1 Pissed Off American
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