Posted on 12/02/2007 3:57:26 PM PST by dit_xi
And just for the heck of it a little fresher post for ya on the Hucksters stand on illegals.
Romney spokesman Kevin Madden told ABC News. “Mike Huckabee’s position [in Arkansas] that taxpayer dollars meant for students who are legal residents should also be made available to illegal immigrants puts him squarely at odds with the American taxpayer.”
Echoing a line that Romney used against Huckabee in last week’s CNN/YouTube debate, Madden added, “Mike Huckabee needs to understand that it’s not his money. It’s the taxpayers’ money.”
Huckabee’s indecision on federal student aid was also criticized by the campaign of former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson.
“Children who are born in this country are U.S. citizens and entitled to the privileges of citizenship,” said Thompson spokeswoman Karen Hanretty. “Those in our country illegally are not. It’s that simple.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933672/posts
(last tweak. early day tomorrow)
columnist Joseph Perkins (2005)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050218/news_lz1e18perkins.html
I don’t consider myself a “racist” or a “bigot.” But Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee apparently does.
Because I happen to see the merit of a measure, proposed by two Arkansas state lawmakers, that would require anyone registering to vote in the Razorback State to prove citizenship and anyone applying for state services to prove legal residency.
To Huckabee’s mind, anyone who supports such a law has succumbed to “race-baiting and demagoguery.” That would include yours truly. It also would include a majority of my fellow California residents.
“Huckabee: ‘Illegal Immigration is God giving America a chance to make up for slavery.’”
Ann is in full spin mode. She probably wants Giuliani and Romney one-on-one because she thinks that’s our best chance to stop Giuliani. If she wants to take that approach, she can, but she ought to avoid lying in the process.
Governor Huckabee said, “One of the great challenges facing us is that we do not commit the same mistakes with our growing Hispanic population that we did with African Americans 150 years ago and beyond.”
Opposing racism isn’t the same as advocating open borders:
http://mikehuckabee.com/?FuseAction=Issues.View&Issue_id=4
ANn took it too easy on the lying fool.
What Huckabee said was exactly that.
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“For decades, we treated our state’s African-American population poorly. The Hispanic influx gives us a second chance to prove what kind of people we really are.”
“I think frankly the Lord is giving us a second chance to do better than we did before.”
Huckabee is a pathetic pandering moron.
“For decades, we treated our state’s African-American population poorly. The Hispanic influx gives us a second chance to prove what kind of people we really are.”
“I think frankly the Lord is giving us a second chance to do better than we did before.”
Whats all this “we” talk? I don’t even recognize him as American.
“For decades, we treated our state’s African-American population poorly. The Hispanic influx gives us a second chance to prove what kind of people we really are.”
That’s from a much older speech in which Governor Huckabee was talking about Arkansas and segregation, not America and slavery.
“To Huckabee’s mind, anyone who supports such a law has succumbed to ‘race-baiting and demagoguery.’”
He said the bill inflamed racists and bigots, which is almost certainly true. That’s different from saying anyone who supported it was a racist or a bigot.
I had a similar visceral reaction to those quotes.
I've been pointing out since the Values Voter debate that Huckabee is historically illiterate. And he's not afraid to show off that quality, either. Quite regularly.
Doesn't look like "an old speech" to me.
And he most certainly WAS talking about slavery.
"One of the great challenges facing us is that we do not commit the same mistakes with our growing Hispanic population that we did with African Americans 150 years ago and beyond. We're still paying the price for the pathetic manner in which this country handled that," Huckabee said at a meeting of the Political Animals Club in Little Rock. The club meets monthly to hear from political figures and experts. "I think frankly the Lord is giving us a second chance to do better than we did before," Huckabee said.
“Even the corrected quote shows that anyone who thinks that the horrible conditions that illegal immigrants work in without protection of the law is God giving America a chance to make up for slavery is someone who has some sort of screw loose either in his logic or in his theology.”
You refer to Governor Huckabee as a “moron” in post 6, which suggests you may have a screw loose in your own theology.
This is one of the stupidest statements I've ever heard.
Did he actually say this?
“Doesn’t look like ‘an old speech’ to me. And he most certainly WAS talking about slavery.”
The statements I quoted weren’t from that speech.
“This is one of the stupidest statements I’ve ever heard. Did he actually say this?”
Actually he didn’t.
Looks like this has been a staple talking point for Huckabee for a number of years.
A really, really stupid one.
“Did he just call The Club for Growth, ‘The Club for Greed’? This is the same leftist garbage I heard from Bill Clinton 16 years ago.”
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1932162/posts
In August the Club for Growth began running attack ads in Iowa ... Salon.com found after checking disclosures through the IRS that the ads had been paid for by “a Little Rock neighbor and political rival of Huckabee’s named Jackson T. ‘Steve’ Stephens Jr.” ... Stephens has contributed over $1 million to CFG.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930103/posts
Congressman Hunter doesn’t fit the Club for Growth’s idea of a conservative either.
“Dynachrome” posted: “Although he never actually talked about the U.S. or Arkansas immigration policy, Huckabee made it very clear where he stood on the issue.”
I’m guessing it wasn’t this clear:
http://mikehuckabee.com/?FuseAction=Issues.View&Issue_id=4
“Dynachrome” posted: “During the legislation session, Huckabee criticized an immigration bill by Republican senators Jim Holt of Springdale and Denny Altes of Fort Smith as un-Christian, un-American, irresponsible and anti-life.”
Those are actually the words of Doug Thompson of the Arkansas News Bureau. Governor Huckabee didn’t use the words “un-Christian” or “irresponsible.” He did say the bill expressed an un-American attitude, and he said one consequence of the bill was anti-life:
“We’re trying to preserve the life of someone who, when born, will be an American citizen with his first breath. We can spend $900 on pre-natal care when the mother is pregnant. Instead, this bill would have us take a chance and spend $2,000 a day at Children’s hospital if the baby’s born and something has gone wrong.”
For the record, I disagree with Governor Huckabee about this, but I don’t think it proves he supports open borders, and I definitely don’t think it proves he lacks integrity.
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