Major Announcement?

Mon, January 07, 2008 - 4:41 PM

It sure seemed this morning as if Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., was going to call it quits on his presidential bid.
And that would have meant GOP Rep. C. W. Bill Young of Indian Shores would be among early Hunter supporters left scrambling for another candidate to back in the Republican presidential sweepstakes.
Hunter announced a “major” announcement for 11 a.m.
That prompted even Hunter’s home state newspaper, The Los Angeles Times, to predict that he was folding his tent.
“It’s hard to imagine he will be saying anything other than his campaign for the Republican nomination has no future and that he is withdrawing,” opined The Times’ political blog.
But then, the newspaper was forced to recant:: “Hunter to withdraw? Nope, he fools us.”
In fact, Hunter’s “major announcement” was a complaint about his exclusion from the pair of Republican candidate debates this weekend. He also said he would remain a candidate "no matter what happens" in New Hampshire's Tuesday primary, despite all signs of a second poor showing following Iowa’s caucuses.
A spokesman for Young said today that the Florida congressman remains in Hunter’s camp.

-- Billy House