“The one who calls anti-amnesty proponents “racists?” No thanks!”
Once again, I’m not here to be an advocate for Huckabee. However, you keep using that same statment and link. Friend, you need to realize that many moral conservative also see racial bigotry being expressed by those that expouse almost radical anti-amnesty rhetoric. After the Civil War in America, a great many Northerners didn’t want the newly freed blacks moving up North.
I don’t take a hard line on immigration....I think it is too complex and issue to have quicky solutions. As President Bush says, “we are a country of immigrants.”
This is hardly a radical statement by Huckabee.
“If I were to say that some of it is driven by just sheer racism, I think I would be telling you the truth. I’ve had conversations with people that and it became very evident that what they really didn’t like was that people didn’t look like them, didn’t talk like them, didn’t celebrate ht holidays like they do, and they just had a problem with it. Now, that is not to say that everyone who is really fired out about immigration is racist. They’re not.”
BTW - I don’t really like being placed in the position of defending Huckabee because I’m not convinced he would be the best choice...in fact I currently lean towards Senator Thompson. However, I see nothing to be gained by demonizing an otherwise good and sincere person like Huckabee. Play up Fred’s postitives and that should be enough.