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Meet the GOP's Border Control Cross-Dressers
Townhall.com ^ | December 12, 2007 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 12/12/2007 4:20:07 AM PST by Kaslin

Every Democrat running for president thinks anti-illegal immigration activists are all racists and xenophobes. Do we really need a Republican nominee for president who thinks the same way?

Breakout GOP candidate Mike Huckabee, the soft-on-border control former governor of Arkansas, scored a jaw-dropping endorsement Tuesday from Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project. Despite a long gubernatorial record opposing employer sanctions and pushing tax-subsidized illegal alien education benefits, Huckabee won Gilchrist's support by unveiling a last-minute, tough-sounding homeland security plan.

Trouble is, Huckabee has downright and longstanding contempt for his new bedfellows of convenience.

Just two years ago, Huckabee appeared before the open-borders Hispanic group, The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), preaching an open-door policy. According to the Arkansas News Bureau, Huckabee also criticized state legislation requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and enhanced reporting of illegal aliens as un-Christian, un-American, irresponsible and anti-life -- not to mention "inflammatory," "race-baiting" and "demagoguery."

Just last year, Huckabee lambasted opponents of the bipartisan shamnesty bill providing a mass pardon to illegal aliens as "driven by racism or nativism." He called strict immigration enforcement -- the kind he now supports -- "sheer folly" in his campaign-timed book released earlier this year. He actively invited the Mexican government to establish a consulate in Arkansas -- giving its office a $1 per year special office space rate -- so that its foreign officials could start dispensing security-undermining matricula consular ID cards to illegal aliens for banking and employment purposes. And he's not only for government in-state illegal alien discounts, he's for expanding them far beyond what the federal DREAM Act proposed.

But now that he needs to establish his border control bona fides, Huckabee is all honey. "Frankly, Jim," he said to the Minuteman Project founder at a press conference in Iowa on Tuesday, "I've got to tell you there were times in the early days of the Minutemen I thought, 'What are these guys doing, what are they about?' I confess I owe you an apology."

It's Gilchrist and those who allow themselves to be snowed by Huckabee's cynical conversion who'll be sorry and deep in apology debt, I guarantee you. Huckabee showed his true colors at the Univision Spanish-language debate over the weekend when he pandered to the crowd by lamenting "racial profiling" of immigrants -- while remaining silent about catch-and-release policies that fail to detain criminal aliens who go on to commit more heinous crimes because politically correct politicians and police chiefs are more concerned with being accused of "racial profiling" than protecting the public.

Huckabee isn't the only shameless border control cross-dresser in the GOP field, of course. Rudy "I supported sanctuary policies before I was against them, but my sanctuary policy wasn't really a sanctuary policy, anyway" Giuliani now quotes "the advice of a great man, Father Hesburgh, who said, 'We must close the back door of illegal immigration in order to preserve the front door of legal immigration.'" In an interview with Washington Examiner reporter and author Bill Sammon, Giuliani now says he really, truly would have deported 400,000 illegal aliens in New York if he could have. Never mind that small matter of the lawsuit he brought against the feds to block them from enforcing immigration laws. Never mind that he was openly inviting illegal aliens into his open-borders safe harbors.

Reports Sammon: "Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens," the mayor said at a 1994 press conference. "If you come here and you work hard and you happen to be in an undocumented status, you're one of the people who we want in this city. You're somebody that we want to protect, and we want you to get out from under what is often a life of being like a fugitive, which is really unfair."

Bringing up the false convert rear is Sen. John McCain. Earlier this year, he was the most vocal critic of grass-roots conservatives who mobilized against the amnesty bill. He now says he has learned his lesson and supports securing the border. He has learned nothing. During the shamnesty debacle, he called Rush Limbaugh a "nativist"; over the weekend, he repeated such contemptuous "straight talk" at the Univision debate by assailing what he called anti-Hispanic rhetoric. In an interview with the New Yorker, he irritatedly dismissed immigration concerns in Iowa as marginal and irrational -- just a bunch of "senior citizens" in Iowa caught up in the "emotion" of a cultural assault.

Bad enough that the Democrat candidates are still stuck in a 9/10 mentality on the nexus between immigration and national security. The question for conservatives is: Would a Republican immigration drag queen be any better -- or worse?


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; aliens; dreamact; gilchrist; huck; huckabee; hunter; immigration; malkin; mikehuckabee; minutemen
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To: wolfcreek
I have to question how we got to this point? How did the Republican party manage to sink to this level with so many RINOs? WTH did all the Conservatives go?

The GOP leadership thinks that the only way to win is to become more and more moderate (or as I like to call it, moving more to the left). They will gladly give up the conservative voter base in order to pick up more lefties/moderates.

Remember "Compassionate Conservatism" crap? Code words for moderate or left-leaning (the two are becoming synonymous).

Some of us are fighting back with our votes. President Bush's successor, Rick Perry, a former Democrat-turned-Republican-turned Democrat, nearly lost in his last election (he likes to brag about how he never loses, but 60% of Texans saw fit to vote for somebody else).

The way I see it - I haven't left the GOP, the GOP has left me - I'm still the same Conservative I was in the '70s, with many of the same beliefs, and I've long since reached a point where I've decided that the GOP has my loyalty if, and only if, they run conservative candidates. I will only vote for conservative candidates. That means if it comes down to Rudy vs Hillary, rather than vote for a liberal like Rudy, I'll vote third party or not vote at all.
41 posted on 12/12/2007 9:04:16 AM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: af_vet_rr

Agreed. The media only gets to pick from those the money’d travelers put forth.


42 posted on 12/12/2007 9:29:54 AM PST by subterfuge (HILLARY IS: She who must NOT be Dismayed)
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

ping


43 posted on 12/12/2007 9:39:11 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: AmericanInTokyo; wolfcreek

No one is pleased about Gilchrist lining up with the Huckster.

This is what California Coalition for Imm. reform says:

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Patriots throughout our nation were shocked to learn that MMP founder JIM GILCHRIST has endorsed presidential candidate MIKE HUCKABEE.

As HUCKABEE’S record (noted below), clearly illustrates, he is an anti-American, pro-illegal alien champion of the racist hate group LULAC, the “open borders” globalists and welcomes diseased and deadly illegal alien criminals into our country.

What is more EVIL than a traitor posing as a man of God?

We ask that you share Huckabee’s record with as many patriots as possible.

Also, reassure them that CCIR has and will continue to support all courageous Minutemen/women who risk their lives to secure our borders, the dedicated anti-illegal alien rally leaders and participants, and the many patriot organizations who stand for the enforcement of our immigration laws and protection of our citizens from foreign invaders.
Barb Coe - CCIR


44 posted on 12/12/2007 11:18:41 AM PST by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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To: af_vet_rr

You’re singing to the Texas Conservative choir, Brother.

Perry supporting Rudy although, not that suprising, should be the *Last Straw* for many.


45 posted on 12/12/2007 12:29:53 PM PST by wolfcreek (The Status Quo Sucks!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

The GOP seems determined to commit ideological suicide. They should change the party name to the Anti-Machiavellian Party. They’re determined to support policies that will lock the Democrats into power in perpetuity.


46 posted on 12/12/2007 12:39:01 PM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: Kaslin

But Michelle...he mentions JESUS every five seconds, so he’s GOT to be our savior!!!


47 posted on 12/12/2007 1:14:08 PM PST by montag813
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To: Kaslin

You just have to love this woman.


48 posted on 12/12/2007 2:28:49 PM PST by PsyOp (Truth in itself is rarely sufficient to make men act. - Clauswitz, On War, 1832.)
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To: puroresu
Pretty bad, isn't it?

You would think they would have gotten the message there at RNC Headquarters when they had to start LAYING OFF PEOPLE because of the dramatic drop in contribution and the dramatic RISE in irate phone calls, faxes and e mails over their PRO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION STANCE.

How STUPID can these people be? They must be bought off. Money talks, when logic fails I guess.

49 posted on 12/12/2007 4:12:55 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (DUNCAN HUNTER: SOLID! On; Illegals, N. Korea, Iran. Iraq, Economy, WOT, China, Business)
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To: subterfuge

YEP. DUNCAN IS THE MAN!!


50 posted on 12/12/2007 4:13:37 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (DUNCAN HUNTER: SOLID! On; Illegals, N. Korea, Iran. Iraq, Economy, WOT, China, Business)
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To: AuntB
We should work to get him to retract the Huckabee endorsement.

If he is in charge of any organization that relies on donors, go after the donor base. Dry up his source of funds.

He will come to his senses REALLLLL soon when he gets hit in the pocketbook. They all do. It is human nature.

51 posted on 12/12/2007 4:17:12 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (DUNCAN HUNTER: SOLID! On; Illegals, N. Korea, Iran. Iraq, Economy, WOT, China, Business)
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To: Tennessee Nana
Message to (KRLA Radio Conservative Talk Show Host) Terry Anderson, if you are out there (and through loyal Freeper Tennessee Nana).

Nominating Senor GILCHRIST for "Most Horriblest Clown of the WEEK" for your Sunday night show, might be an idea.

It hurts, but it's gotta be done!!

52 posted on 12/12/2007 4:24:57 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (DUNCAN HUNTER: SOLID! On; Illegals, N. Korea, Iran. Iraq, Economy, WOT, China, Business)
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To: Old Badger

Mr. Gilchrist struck me as a deeply religious man so I suspect that he’s allowed himself to be taken in by the former pastor’s similarities. Same goes for Chuck Norris and the other celebrities climbing on Huckabee’s bandwagon.

1.We just learned that a pro-amnesty thinking candidate will be an amnesty-pursuing President no matter what comes out of their mouths while running,

2.The Middle East situation ALONE illustrates the need for a far tougher customer than Huckabee. “Can’t we all just get along?” doesn’t impress the ruthless lunatics waging jihadic war on us,

3.No more governors from Arkansas!


53 posted on 12/12/2007 9:09:34 PM PST by NewRomeTacitus ("Don't move!" tic tic BLAM BLAM...John Horn for Homeland Security Chief)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Agreed!

Terry@theterryandersonshow.com


54 posted on 12/13/2007 2:15:51 PM PST by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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