Retire the liberal tax raising, open border, algore loving, nanny state Huckster Ping
The liberal MSM must really think Social Conservatives are stupid. They keep pitching and pimping the Huckster hoping somebody will buy.
Posted on 10/29/2007 3:48:51 PM PDT by pissant
LITTLE ROCK - Gov. Mike Huckabee heaped criticism Thursday upon immigration legislation in the Arkansas Legislature, describing it as "inflammatory ... race-baiting and demagoguery" and challenging the Christian values of its main sponsor.
Huckabee said the bill, which seeks to forbid public assistance and voting rights to illegal immigrants, "enflames those who are racist and bigots and makes them think there's a real problem. But there's not."
The bill was filed by Republican Sens. Jim Holt of Springdale and Denny Altes of Fort Smith, whose northwest Arkansas region includes the state's fastest-growing Hispanic population.
Huckabee, also a Republican and a Baptist minister, said Arkansans should be welcoming hardworking immigrants of all races. He singled out Holt, who often talks of his strong Christian beliefs, saying, "I drink a different kind of Jesus juice. My faith says don't make false accusations against somebody. In the Bible, it's called 'don't bear false witness.'"
Huckabee said Holt's plan to deny prenatal care for illegal immigrants goes against their shared anti-abortion principles - that unborn fetuses should have a citizen's right to life. Joe McCutchen, the Fort Smith resident who lobbies for the immigration bill and has campaigned for tighter immigration restrictions around the country, called those fetuses "anchor babies."
In response, Holt said he was hurt by the governor questioning his faith and, in so doing, compared immigrants to children."
I would be doing a disservice to my children as a father to continue to let them do things illegal or wrongly without correcting them," he said. "That is really and truly compassion because we're teaching them to be better citizens."
Holt emphasized that he was not prejudiced, "except against those with prejudice."
"I just want to uphold the law and protect the benefits that apply to citizens," Holt said.
Huckabee said he wasn't calling any particular person a bigot but said raising such a bill without cause only leads bigots to think, falsely he said, that immigrants are stealing their benefits.
Huckabee said illegal immigrants "can't vote, can't collect Social Security benefits. They don't get a tax refund, but they pay sales tax, gasoline tax, and property tax when they pay their rent. We don't let them vote. They don't get welfare benefits. And they don't get unemployment benefits.
"We're talking about giving children not free college, only the opportunity to be treated with the same opportunity as any Arkansas high school graduate would have," Huckabee said.
Huck pulls a Rudy, conflating legal with illegal immigrants.
PING
This, more or less, confirms what many people suspected of Huckabee, that he has quite a liberal streak when it comes to selling his brother birthright (for a mess of pottage).
The liberal MSM must really think Social Conservatives are stupid. They keep pitching and pimping the Huckster hoping somebody will buy.
On another Huckabubble thread he made a joke out of slavery, and restoring it to the South with illegal aliens.
Not funny, Huck!
That’s some fine work you’ve done!
Not me. I’m just part of the unwashed masses on FR who are sick of open border, nanny state, tax raising RINOs.
He’s got an amazing Clintonian streak. I wonder if he too remembers the burning black churches like Slick did.
He has sold out to the Bush agenda! There's not much worse that a person can do to Amreica/Americans! I'm so fed up with these traitors. Huckabee can kiss my red, white and blue, American a$$!!
As Ann Coulter said, Huck makes GWB sound like Tom Tancredo.
BTTT
LOL! Hilarious!!
Huckabee promotes 'open door' policy at LULAC convention
Thursday, Jun 30, 2005
By Wesley Brown Arkansas News Bureau
LITTLE ROCK - In a impassioned speech before hundreds of influential Hispanic civil rights leaders from across the nation, Gov. Mike Huckabee told a captive audience Wednesday that America is great because it has always opened it doors up to people seeking a better way of life.
"I would hope that no matter who we are, or where we are from, that America should always be a place that opens its arms, opens it heart, opens its spirit to people who come because they want the best for their families ...," Huckabee said as the largely Hispanic audience gave him a standing ovation.
Huckabee was the keynote speaker, along with Tyson Foods Inc. Chairman and CEO John Tyson, at a noon luncheon of the League of United Latin American Citizens, which is holding its 76th annual convention in Little Rock.
About 10,000 political, community and business leaders, along with exhibitors and speakers are in Little Rock attending the convention at the Statehouse Convention Center. The convention started Monday and runs through Saturday.
Although he never actually talked about the U.S. or Arkansas immigration policy, Huckabee made it very clear where he stood on the issue. In his opening remarks, he said the nation will need to address the concerns of the Hispanic community because of its growing influence and population base.
He told the LULAC delegates that their presence in the state's capital city was very important because Arkansas has one of the fastest growing Hispanic populations in the nation.
"Your gathering is so very significant for our state," Huckabee said. "We are delighted to have you (criminal invader illegal aliens)"
That needs to be plastered in every conservative website and gathering.
I have no photoshop experience. But he is due a similar treatment.
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