Posted on 12/11/2007 10:30:06 AM PST by pissant
Noting that he might not agree 100 percent on immigration with Huckabee, the firebrand illegal immigration opponent said Huckabee's recently released immigration plan won him over.
"The governor has a plan and I appreciate his plan. That's why I'm supporting him. He's one of the few who's actually brought forth a plan and gone public with it. It shows to me that he's willing to engage in the tough love necessary to fix this problem," Gilchrist said.
Gilchrist, whose organization is separate from the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, has drawn protests in appearances at college campuses in recent months for his views on strict illegal immigration laws. Unlike the MCDC, whose primary role is to park volunteers along the U.S.-Mexico border to report jumpers to Border Patrol agents, the Minuteman Project calls attention to enforcement of state and federal laws relating to immigration.
Huckabee last week announced a get-tough immigration plan, proposing to construct a border fence with surveillance cameras by July 1, 2010, calling for an increase to the number of Border Patrol agents and imposing steep penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants.
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It is true, unfortunately.
Duncan Hunter better get his campaign in gear..!!!!
We need help!
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He enters & participates in all debates....
..the MSM, FOX, CNN pretend he wasn't even there.
He is invisible to them.
It's maddening, sickening and downright SCARY!
And then we have Gilchrist pulling this stunt....
I'm sticking to what I told you months ago....
EEEEEEEEEKKKK......!!!!!!
I’m very late to this posting, and was going to write something like “WTF”? But apparently that’s the obvious question we’re all asking.
Several months ago, I emphatically demanded that they stop sending me e-mails. Some crazy lady was spamming my inbox with their infighting.
The Minutemen, AZ and CA, ended up being all about ego.
“No replies”
Hahaha.
I realized this about a week ago. I think that the game that the RNC is playing is to get someone pro-illegal nominated. If both candidates are pro-illegal, it removes it as an issue in the election. That allows the RNC to pander to the illegal aliens who will be voting once they get amnesty rammed through without any inconvenient electoral threat from the party base, at least in the short term. I think this is a strategy to avoid a repeat of 2006.”
This may be the case. Unfortunately this isn’t a good strategy.
The GOP establishment has drifted so far away from core values (like stopping illegal immigration and no amnesty) that the base is feeling alienated.
We've all seen the comments here. There appears to be enough people willing to stay home on election day rather than contribute to what they see as the destruction of the Republican Party.
Four to eight more years of Clinton, plus the subsequent decades and centuries to clean up the mess, assuming that the United States even remotely resembles a Republic, post-Hillary.
Here is the link to the cris Wallace interview on Fox,http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316253,00.html
Thanks, will read.
Yes he did, YOU obviously missed FOX NEWS SUNDAY!
He is promoting AMNESTY!
This Gilchrist endorsement of Huckabee is outrageous! It’s almost as weird as Pat Robertson endorsing Giuliani. I guess the Romans were right: those whom the Gods seek to destroy, they first make insane.
Why would the founder of the Minutemen support the founder of the Sanctuary State? Huckabee’s new border policy is a shameless cynical ploy to cover up his Open Borders agenda.
Why isn’t Romney talking about how Huckabee actually went to Mexico City to induce Vicente Fox to establish a Mexican Consulate in Little Rock?!
Gilchrist is either an idiot or a fraud. I wonder what his price was?
If the nominee is ANYONE other than Hunter or Tancredo amnesty is a sure bet.
CNN reports:
While presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is surging in new polls of GOP candidates, a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Tuesday shows he would lose to all three leading Democratic candidates by double digits in hypothetical contests.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has doubled his support nationally among GOP voters, a poll says.
In head-to-head matchups — the first to include Huckabee — the former Arkansas governor loses to Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York by 10 percentage points (54 percent to 44 percent), to Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois by 15 points (55 percent to 40 percent) and to former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina by 25 points (60 percent to 35 percent).
Yep...jumping onto what he thought was a winning horse...and the Huckster thought this could cover his weak flank.
we need to help hter and tancredo .Hunter is my choice but every dollar helps lets all step up ...................write papers and donate folks!
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