Posted on 02/02/2008 2:25:14 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
TUSCALOOSA, ALA. -- Mike Huckabee has changed his mind and will sign an Alabama senator’s immigration pledge for presidential candidates - an effort to defeat the McCain-Kennedy proposal in the U.S. Senate.
In Birmingham last week, Huckabee said he was almost ready to sign the pledge put forth by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., but was on the fence regarding one of its aspects. "Which one?" a reporter asked.
Huckabee said it had to do with the 13th point of the 15-point pledge, one to “eliminate the visa lottery program and change current preference categories that guarantee automatic entry for aging parents and extended family members and replace it with a system that fairly and objectively evaluates at least 50% of applicants based on characteristics such as education, skills, English ability, and age.”
Huckabee said he wasn't sure if the ratio for immigrants with advanced degrees was "arbitrary" or flexible enough for changing needs.
"Everything else about it is...absolutely fantastic," Huckabee said. "That's the one piece we haven't been able to completely work on. Hopefully we can get with Senator Sessions to get that verified."
Later at a rally in Tuscaloosa, Huckabee announced he would sign Sessions' pledge. Asked about the decision during the media avail that followed, he said, "Point 13 dealt with ratios of people in engineering-- we looked at that and decided it really is not a big issue and certainly not something that ought to keep us from signing it. It's very consistent with our 9-point immigration plan so I thought, what better time to do it than when I'm in Alabama."
Regarding the seemingly quick manner in which he decided to sign the pledge, he said, "We've been looking at it for about a week…I looked at it last night and today and decided when we got here that this would be a great time to sign the pledge."
Show me where I have ever said I love him? You won’t even find fond:’)
Looks to me like a little Duncan Hunter influence at work.
I’m still hoping for a Huckabee/Hunter ticket.
And that is already twice as phoney as a $3 bill.
Uh huh. Three days before Super Tuesday and with him looking up at Romney in 2nd place nationally. As the Church Lady would say, "How conveeeenient."
and that was before a real problem developed?
Smoke and Mirrors......
and Mazes....while the problem continues to grow?
There must be a path to the ocean~!
No real Conservative holds Right to Life to be lesser of an issue than Immigration.
That would definitely be a step in the right direction.
I’m starting to think that the suspicions of a deal between Huck and McCain are true. All this does is siphons off voters who’d hold their nose and vote for Romney instead of McCain. After Tuesday, Huckabee drops out and commits those votes to McCain and the anti-immigration folks wind up voting for their demon.
Voting for the lesser of all evils is pretty depressing, but I think it’s necessary here.
So, what were you saying about "cousins"?
McCain, Huckabee and Romney have all been guilty of wobbling that is what makes this such a difficult choice. Of the three, I think Romney is the best. At least he hasn’t hired a man- Juan Hernandez, who is a dual citizen with Mexico and has stated that he wants all people of Mexican heritage to be loyal to Mexico for 7 generations. Huckabee has hired this foreign agent after Hernandez’ well known record of pandering to Mexico. Hernandez has been on tv many times, so Huckabee cannot pretend that he didn’t know what he was getting.
THIS IS TREASON !
Will anyone argue that it is not treason?
John McCain is positively callous to his fellow Arizonans who have suffered for many years with this massive foreign invasion. McCain has stuffed cotten in his ears so as not to hear the pleas of the people of his own state. Don’t you think that Arizonans haven’t been writing letters, sending emails and phone calls to McCain? How come I know all about this stuff when I live over a thousand miles from Arizona? Unlike McCain, I care about my fellow Americans. McCain only cares about his cheap labor big business buddies who keep him in a comfortable lifestyle. The voters can be damned. Arrogance and callousness are terrible qualities in a President.
It is frustrating that many people still don’t understand the long term serious implications of illegal immigration. Twelve million is the low estimate of illegal aliens in this country. Do you know that twelve million is the population of Pensylvania, one of our larger states? Consider that it took 300 years to get the population of Pennsylvania to 12 million...the illegals have reached that number in just 20 years!
Those 12 million (or 20 million or 30 million) will only vote for candidates who will pander to them, by allowing more and more immigrants from their country. This means a large voting block that will become a huge voting block. That means that this huge block vote will cancel out your grandchildren’s vote. By not taking the illegal immigration issue seriously enough, you are disenfranchising your own grandkids.
Huckabee has kissed up to LULAC, going to their conventions to prostrate himself before them. He made a sickening joke about how guys that look like him (White guys) were going to be a minority in Arkansas. This clown is eager to make his own decendents a minority in their own country. This guy reminds me of Mike Nifong.
I have been following the illegal immigration (invasion) problem for many years and believe me, this is as serious in the long run as terrorism. We will end up with a Balkanized nation in a few generations. Look at what is happening to Europe with its millions of Muslim immigrants? This can happen to us in two or three gnerations.
Conservatives are supposed to have vision. We are supposed to be wise people who think long into the future. Any presidential candidate who doesn’t recognize the long term consequences of the illegal immigration problem is not worthy of being president.
McCain’s strong point is that he is supposed to be strong on defense, but how can he say he is strong on defense when he lives in a border state that is overrun by foreign invaders and he is cool with it.
Huckabee is supposed to be Mr. Christian Compassion but he has more compassion for people who don’t belong in this country than for his own countrymen.
I trust Romney on the illegal immigration issue and Tom Tancredo has endorsed him.
If you vote for McCain or Huckabee, you will find out what it is like to live in Massachusetts, as I do, where you will be a permanent Republican minority.
I agree with your post. I am old enough to know that we can’t always agree with all issues and sometimes have to vote a difficult choice. My first election was Goldwater vs Johnson! If we let Hillary or Obama waltz into the Whitehouse, it will take years to undo the damage. We are all conservative or republicans or both and it’s time to stop calling each other childish names, grow up and do what is right for the country. Fred is gone, we have to stop recalling Ronald Reagan, Hunter, etc are all gone now, time to pull together. It will be Romeny or McCain, we have to make that choice and Huckabee is only making it worst, he doesn’t stand a chance
LOL
Here read about RINO Romney;s record on immigration
http://ontheissues.org/2008/Mitt_Romney_Immigration.htm
Just curious. Why do you think Huckabee can’t win?
Huckabee has hired this foreign agent after Hernandez’ well known record of pandering to Mexico. Hernandez has been on tv many times, so Huckabee cannot pretend that he didn’t know what he was getting.
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I thought it was McCain who hired Juan Hernandez ????
I think Huckabee won’t win, just the numbers alone, he won’t go well in the larger states. although he has a good chance in the south. I honestly believe it’s now a two man race and we are faced with those choices, I WILL vote, even tho it’s a hard choice for me too, but I think our troops deserve someone better as their commander than Hillary or Obama. We owe them that much
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