Posted on 01/09/2008 6:45:10 AM PST by 3AngelaD
Mike Huckabee yesterday contradicted his own top immigration surrogate, announcing he will not support a constitutional amendment to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to illegal aliens.
It was a stark reversal after The Washington Times reported that James Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, said Huckabee promised to pursue an amendment to the Constitution. In an article in yesterday's editions, Huckabee's spokeswoman did not challenge the former Arkansas governor's statements to Gilchrist...But by yesterday afternoon, Huckabee had backed away..."I do not support an amendment to the Constitution that would prevent children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American citizens. I have no intention of supporting a constitutional amendment to deny birthright citizenship," Mr. Huckabee said...
The Times reported that Gilchrist, in a conversation while campaigning with Mr. Huckabee last week, pinned down the Republican presidential candidate on various immigration stances, including how he would address what most legal scholars see as the 14th Amendment's guarantee of citizenship to any person born in the United States, except for diplomatic situations.
Gilchrist said Huckabee promised to bring a test case to the Supreme Court...and would press Congress to pass an amendment to the Constitution.... Huckabee also said on CNN that he hasn't given much thought to the issue of birthright citizenship. But he previously had taken a position in an interview with The Times in Iowa in August.
"I would support changing that. I think there is reason to revisit that, just because a person, through sheer chance of geography, happened to be physically here at the point of birth, doesn't necessarily constitute citizenship," he said at the time, according to the audiotape of the interview. "I think that's a very reasonable thing to do, to revisit that."
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has hunter even registerd in ANY primary so far?
no even a blip.
At this rate even his endorsement will do nothing.
When the parents are using the babies to break ours laws, we need to remove the ability for them to use the babies to break the law.
“its an idiotic issue to push, attacking babies because you cant enforce the rest of our laws.”
Stopping illegal aliens from getting the BENEFIT of citizenship is attacking babies???
That has nothing to do with birthright citizenship.
There's no reason the parents should be given any special treatment because their child is a citizen.
Illegal aliens aren't getting citizenship. Native-born babies are. So .... yes, babies are babies, and if you have a problem with illegal immigration, as I do, then enforce the law against the lawbreakers.
I don’t really know enough about Gilchrist.
I know enough about the Huckster to know that I do not trust him.
It’s become a personality cult. He’s a Christian and that’s all they care about. It doesn’t matter if his position on every other issue is diametrically opposed to conservatism, they’ll just deny that he really has/had that position. Just like a caller on Rush yesterday. The guest host kept saying that Huckabee wasn’t a conservative and the caller insisted that, “He’s a Christian and Christians are conservative.” Ever hear of Jimmy Carter?
Huckabee’s a Christian, I guess, although with his recent antics I’m beginning to wonder about that (latest example: “I can’t run this negative ad because ‘what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?’ By the way, here’s the ad.”) but he is clearly not a conservative. But his followers will insist with their last breath that he is, and THEY REALLY BELIEVE IT.
I am convinced Gilchrist, while a fool, is in fact telling the truth and that Huck told him those things to keep that immigration flank of his campaign (which he sorely needs) intact, but with absolutely no intent of keeping those temporary, tactical promises.
When the cat got out of the bag, I think Huck, the liar, had to reign his comments in, therefore he contradicts Gilchrist.
As I said, one is a liar and one is a fool.
They both should be ashamed of themselves.
And PHOOEY! on any so called "Conservative" who was for border enforcement, voting for that slick guy from Arkansas.
Of course Huckabee retreats on it. He just pulls stuff out of his piehole to begin with, then when challenged, flops around like a beached trout.
LOL!!
I was always concerned about his history on illegals, his tax increases, his pardons of murderers; but the clinker for me, was when I found out that he protected his son from prosecution, after he brutally and viciously killed a helpless little dog.
Which one in that photo executed the family dog?
And the guy on the left is Chris Farley, isn’t it?
Oh...that was the other nail in the coffin for me....reading about the thousands of commutations he made.
I hadn't read about this factoid about his son, though....(more reading for me, I guess. : )
Yes he is, but his quotes were read to Huckabee staffer prior to publication, and this one was not challenged.
“Which one in that photo executed the family dog?”
I can’t answer your question, but we all know that the Huckster has “seduced the canid”.
It is indeed one of the weirdest phenomenon I have seen in a LONG time in American Politics. I am uncomfortable with it, to tell you the truth.
Unbelievably disgusting. This amendment HAS to go. It’s antiquated and is a big problem for this country.
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