I know I was 1000 miles away on my couch, but I seem to remember the Huckster expressing his support for tuition breaks for illegal aliens during the first debate.
Hunter was actually at that debate, was he asleep?
Oh, well. I liked Hunter, but his endorsement means niothing to me.
Nope. What he proposed was letting the children of illegal aliens in Arkansas, who had no say over where they lived and whom the state is required by federal law to educate, be eligible for state college tuition breaks provided they spoke English, had been in the schools since grade one, maintained A-level grades, and followed the rules to become US citizens. This was, of course, a very small pool, maybe 50-100 a year. The idea was that they were so Americanized, they'd never fit into Mexico, and it was a waste of state resources to have to educate them for 12 years, then say, "No, you can't go any farther, now go get a job mowing lawns instead of becoming a productive, tax-paying citizen." But the point is moot because it never became law anyway, it was just a proposal.
Like most of the charges against Huckabee, it was taken out of context, distorted wildly, then put through a partisan media amplifer turned up to 11. Hunter knows the difference between reality and the Club For Growth's bought-and-paid-for garbage. A lot of people around here don't. Hence, all the exploding heads and their sudden realization that, OMG, Duncan Hunter is also "a tax-loving, illegal-immigrant-coddling SOCIALIST!!!" Couldn't possibly be that they allowed themselves to be swayed by misinformation from loud partisan sources, and then, like Leacock's famous knight, rode off in all directions.