Sorry, no comeback kid Huck for me
I previously blogged about Huckabee's turn around on the Arkansas version of the DREAM act. I did not know about this. Michelle Malkin's column in the Detroit News has more:
Breakout GOP candidate Mike Huckabee, the soft-on-border control former governor of Arkansas, scored a jaw-dropping endorsement Tuesday from Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project. Despite a long gubernatorial record opposing employer sanctions and pushing tax-subsidized illegal alien education benefits, Huckabee won Gilchrist's support by unveiling a last-minute, tough-sounding homeland security plan.
I was a bit confused when his immigration plan, especially when I read that it was basically Mark Krikorian (a former guest of Meet The New Press). Yet, this flip flop, once again, is as big as any of which Romney is accused:
Just two years ago, Huckabee appeared before the open-borders Hispanic group, The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), preaching an open-door policy. According to the Arkansas News Bureau, Huckabee also criticized state legislation requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and enhanced reporting of illegal aliens as un-Christian, un-American, irresponsible and anti-life -- not to mention "inflammatory," "race-baiting" and "demagoguery."
Just last year, Huckabee lambasted opponents of the bipartisan shamnesty bill providing a mass pardon to illegal aliens as "driven by racism or nativism." He called strict immigration enforcement -- the kind he now supports -- "sheer folly" in his campaign-timed book released earlier this year. He actively invited the Mexican government to establish a consulate in Arkansas -- giving its office a $1 per year special office space rate -- so that its foreign officials could start dispensing security-undermining matricula consular ID cards to illegal aliens for banking and employment purposes. And he's not only for government in-state illegal alien discounts, he's for expanding them far beyond what the federal DREAM Act proposed.
Not once do I see Rule of Law mentioned.... to flip this late in the campaign? Ha!
Yes, Rudy and McCain have had similar stances in the past concerning my #2 issue. And they still need to be watched. However, what Huck has done is pure pandering to conservatives like me. At least McCain has apologized for being wrong on the border issue.
Comments
Posted by: Michael Kitch | December 18, 2007 11:25 AM
Posted by: doug | December 19, 2007 5:38 PM