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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Which is exactly why I am opting out on the issue of supporting Giuliani, Romney or Huckibee. I’ll have no part of them. There isn’t a chance in hell I’ll endorse or vote for one of these.
In likeliest order (more or less):
Ohio, New Mexico, Iowa, Colorado, Nevada, Virginia.
time for a 3rd party—conservative party—we have been hijacked. the liberal press will unload on Jimmy Huckabee.
And i don’t really expect Huck to know the real 11th commandment:
—snip—
Reagan biographer and conservative strategist Craig Shirley e-mails in response to Rudy Giuliani’s invocation of the “11th Commandment” in a CNN television package.
“Rudy Giuliani knows as much about the 11th Commandment as he does about conservatism, which is very little. The 11th Commandment was a term created by the Chairman of the California Republican Party, Gaylord Parkinson in 1966. Reagan adopted it to mean that one Republican did not attack another Republican’s patriotism, fidelity or sobriety. Politicians like Giuliani hide behind it when criticized by another on issues, which Reagan did plenty against Ford in 1976 and George Bush in 1980.”
Shirley is the author of “Reagan’s Revolution” and the forthcoming book “Rendezvous with Destiny.” He is also the chairman of the board of the revised Citizens For The Republic, a Reaganite revival political group that’s already raised around $20M.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/10/reagan_biographer_wants_to_tea.php
Has he endorsed anyone? Maybe he should speak up now and counter the insanity of this endorsement. Huck will increase the flood of illegals into our dying Republic.
Yeah he’s just hungry for power.
i think that a florida win is highly unlikely.
None, because he won’t win the GOP nomination unless conservative voters have gone totally insane on a nation-wide scale. The Huckster will end up as a VP for Rudy or some other Northeastern RINO to help “balance” the ticket and draw in the gullible southern white religious right voters.
I listed 7. That might be my 8th most likely to flip.
Of course, your mileage may vary.
Why not Fred Thompson? He’s not running away with the nomination but it’s still winnable for him with the right suppport.
This is from Fox News so it’s not a joke. I wonder what gives? I’m going to let Gilchrest know about the Huckster’s amnesty plans. Perhaps he’s been conned by the Huckster. IF not, it’s time for Gilchrest to leave the Minuteman project, because if he continues to support the Huckster, they’ll never see another penny of my money!!
LOL!
Virtually all of them, particularly AR
If Huckabee is shrewed, he will repudiated Gilchrist’s bizarre endorsement as “mean-spirited” and out of the Republican mainstream. Remember how the Republicans in the 1960s had to repudiate the John Birch Society to be socially acceptable.
Well, with Huckabee's penchant to pardon maybe he's just figuring if he can't get his accounting under control . . .
Click on the link to Fox and you're find the story is very real.
Huckamania has brainwashed Gilchrist!
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