Duncan Booth
October 31, 2006 at 4:19 am
Duncan Hunter wants to run for president. Political trivia lovers surely remember that the last Southern California Republican member of Congress to run for president was B1 Bob Dornan, circa 1996.
This is critical to stipulate so we can nostalgically salute Dornan’s entry into the lexicon of classic, stirring, statesmanlike political speeches. From his 1995 announcement:
“Here’s my Clinton countdown watch showing 572 days until the election. Sallie, what’s your counting down until the inauguration? 648! Just add 76 days to mine and you have the inauguration day. I’m counting the hours and the days until we send the Clintons packing.”
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Booth Duncan said,
October 31, 2006 @ 2:29 pm
“I’m counting the hours and the days until we send the Clintons packing.”
Yeah, I can remember us all thinking the same at Bush/Quayle ‘92 campaign headquarters and evening believing a poll that said the race was “tightening”: naturally, it was the Bushies who went packing! Fred Maleck: where’s my job!