[pissant]

Amen to that.

[trisham]

Well, well.

[cripplecreek]

Jim Gilchrist here speaks only for Jim Gilchrist, he does not speak for the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps

I had a feeling that was coming.

[lesser_satan]

BTTT

[spectre]

Excellent!

I think Gilchrist is unstable.

sw

[From One - Many]

the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC), the nation's largest Minuteman organization, is a 501(C)4 non-profit organization and cannot and does not endorse any candidate for public office

keywords....cannot endorse
oh well...if only more people were on this site, and not listening to the old media.

Oh silly me...the old media represents the thoughts of all conservatives with their views and coverage of the candidates on the Republican side. Excuse me I have to go throw up now!

[zerosix]

This member certainly DOES NOT endorse Huckabee - he’d be the very LAST candidate I’d “endorse” were I in charge of any “non-profit” 501c3 group.

[lonestar67]

Huckabee should be able to adapt his position to what he hears voters saying. I think it proves the irrational anger behind the anti-illegal immigration arguments.

Which of the candidates has not radically adapted their positions?

Please do not tell me Ron Paul because I do not care.

[Jeff Head]

Well and truly said...timely too.

[jmyrlefuller]

Some background info (it's from Wikipedia, so take it for what it's worth):

The Minuteman Project's board of directors removed Gilchrist as head of the Minuteman Project amid allegations of fraud and financial mismanagement. In a May 2007 interview, Gilchrist claimed: "I’m the President and always was. I got the corporation back. I have the right to the web site, the bank account, everything. We are back in the same position as we were prior to the hijacking." These claims by Gilchrist, though, do not appear to match the judge's ruling. Judge "Wilkinson issued an interim ruling barring the board members from spending Minuteman Project donations until Gilchrist’s lawsuit is resolved. Wilkinson also rejected Gilchrist’s request for a temporary restraining order that would have restored Gilchrist to power until the case is decided." In April of 2007, Gilchrist announced the formation of a new non-profit corporation, named Jim Gilchrist’s Minuteman Project, Inc.

In other words, Gilchrist's so-called "Minuteman Project" is a phony.

[Cicero]

This whole statement is ambiguous, because two separate matters are involved.

1) As a legal matter, an officer or member of a tax-free foundation must make all political endorsements personally, or risk offending the IRS and losing tax exempt status. Therefore, by legal definition, the endorsement is private, not on behalf of the organization. Nevertheless, in the normal course of things, the members of the organization and sympathizers will give the endorsement due weight.

2) As a matter of actual belief or opinion. Thus an officer of an organization might give a political endorsement that the members did not agree with or could not accept. When Pat Robertson endorsed Rudy Giuliani, I would hope that his followers would continue to respect him but would NOT follow his lead in this endorsement. They would conclude that he was still a good man but mistaken.

My personal conclusion is that Jim Gilchrist is certainly mistaken, and by endorsing Huckabee has betrayed the basic principles of his organization. Whether he was bought, or whether he was sincerely mistaken, I don’t yet know. Huckabee is a spellbinding talker, and it’s possible that he pulled the wool over Gilchrest’s eyes, as he has done with a goodly number of southern Evangelicals.

We can hope they will all come to their senses before it’s too late, and they find they have a second Jimmy Carter on their hands.

[lesser_satan]

ping!

[bmwcyle]

[dynachrome]

I posted this yesterday. I am shocked at both Gilchrist and Simcox. I just don’t know anymore.
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“Talk about strange bedfellows. Consider Barry Goldwater Jr.; Minutemen founder Chris Simcox; Democratic State Rep. Pete Rios; and Carlos Flores, head of the Mexican General Consulate, together at a table to talk immigration over sandwiches.

And earlier in the day, Simcox, a controversial figure who is credited and criticized for being the first to organize a citizen border patrol, made what some found to be stunning statements: He supports public education for the children of illegal immigrants and sees the fix as not just an issue of enforcement, but of reforming Mexico’s economy and basing the number of U.S. visas on the nation’s labor supply.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938692/posts

[Kevmo]

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According to Intrade, the winner of yesterday’s GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts

[AmericanInTokyo]

Stay tuned. There is more on this. I will post it in just a second. Very good stuff, pissant.

From AiT, overseas.....

[TheLion]

I knew there was something strange about Gilchrist’s endorsement.