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He's pro-life, pro-personal-sovereignty, pro-family-sovereignty, pro-national-sovereignty, anti-illegal-immigration, pro-strong-defense..

This is a genuine question, not rhetorical. It is my understanding that Huckabee endorsed Bush's comprehensive immigration reform plan or something very much like it. Is that true or not?

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This is a genuine question, not rhetorical. It is my understanding that Huckabee endorsed Bush's comprehensive immigration reform plan or something very much like it. Is that true or not?

(It appears that Anti-Huckabee FReepers may be profiled by their long, cryptic user names. ;-)

Huckabee supports securing the border first and foremost. He also supports some kind of path to citizenship -- and I believe it is only fair to allow a rigorous path to citizenship to those who can prove they have been here for 7 or so years, paying taxes. Huckabee was against the latest immigration bill that we all fought against.

Huckabee is strongly against "LOST" and UN sell-outs. He has also been receiving an education he didn't receive in Arkansas about the actual threat of "open borders," which he is strongly against.

As for Arkansas taxes, being from Illinois and Wisconsin, I know something about burgeoning state spending, partly due to Democrat legislatures, partly due to unfunded mandates, partly due (as apparently in the case of the Arkansas nursing homes) to malfeasance. I'm glad that Huckabee wants to focus (and has some background to) upon decreasing spending and for sustaining the Bush cuts, and for ridding us of the tyrany of the IRS.

As for the wedding gift play, he says he didn't know his staff chose that option and I would believe him.

As for the fuel tax, bad roads have to be fixed. Bridges, too, witness 35E in Minneapolis.

I think Huckabee is in the cross-hairs of those in the "libertarian" mentality, within FR. I am not. I'm in the "classic liberal" and freedom-with-responsibility vein -- more like Madison and Lincoln than that Karl-Marx-reactionary lesbian from Russia, Rand -- so I don't slam the door on likely the most appealing, vote-getting candidate, Huckabee.

My jury is not in. I think Huckabee will have to continue to answer questions about his record. So far, I'm pretty impressed with his answers.

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I think Huckabee is in the cross-hairs of those in the "libertarian" mentality, within FR. I am not. I'm in the "classic liberal" and freedom-with-responsibility vein -- more like Madison and Lincoln than that Karl-Marx-reactionary lesbian from Russia, Rand -- so I don't slam the door on likely the most appealing, vote-getting candidate, Huckabee. I should have said Madison, Lincoln, and T. Roosevelt. I would be for Duncan Hunter, if he came across like a presidental candidate and could instruct and sell the public on the issues. He doesn't do that. And Tancredo comes across like a prankster.

I don't see another very TR-like candidate out there, except in bits and pieces.

I do see Huckabee and Romney, who can appeal and lead. Which of those two do you want?