by the Huckster from Hope
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."
Romney backed the AMNESTY Bill last year...
Yes you can say he was in Teddy’s play pen,
but what will RINO Romney promise to get elected ???
he always feels he has to out do the Democrat in the race
Sessions is my senator and I understand that Schumer is on a rant to get him out!! I think Alabamans will fight back
http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2005/01/28/News/316347.html
Gov. Mike Huckabee Thursday denounced a bill by Sen. Jim Holt that would deny state benefits to illegal immigrants as un-Christian, un-American, irresponsible and anti-life.
Even if benefits to people who are in the U.S illegally could be stopped, “I don’t understand how a practicing Christian can turn his back on a child from this or any other state,” Huckabee said.
Let me correct myself
RINO Romney was already out of office in January, 2007...
months before the AMNESTY Bill
But he still backed it,,,
Don't believe it for a second.
:)
Yeah. We vote next month.
Well double duh to you. I was talking about being a permanent minority as a Republican living in Masachusetts. If illegal immigration isn’t stopped and most of the illegal aliens do not go home, they will form a huge voting block that will keep demanding more and more immigration from Mexico and points south. This ethnic group votes overwhelmingly Democrat which will put the Democrat party over the top making them a permanent majority.
Then you will know what people like me go through as a conservative minority living a wacko leftist state like Massachusetts.
There are only a handful of Republican legislators in Massachusetts so that a Republican Governor cannot even get a veto.
The 99% Democrat legislature will not put petitions on the ballot even when the people get enough names on the petitions. The Massachusetts legislature blocked putting the vote on marriage petition on the ballot so that the people could vote on whether to make same sex marriage legal. Years ago I went around with a petition for term limits. Again the citizens had enough signatures to put it on the ballot but the legislature did not approve it. We have no intitiative petition process even though our state consitution grants us this right.
As far as Mitt’s inconsistencies, I don’t think he is a staunch conservative on all issues such as the social issues, but you have to cut him some slack because in order to get elected in Massachusetts you have to jump through all kinds of politically correct flaming hoops. I would like to see Huckabee or McCain’s performance trying to become a Massachusetts governor.
Huckabee comes from a Democrat state but it is more of a conservative Democrat State. McCain comes from a state that has a strong conservative voice. In Massachusetts the extreme liberals control the Democrat party so Romney was in totally hostile territory. He was walking on a greased tightrope.
Romney has a well defined immigration policy and he has been consistent on it.
“FReepers can walk the plank or get behind Huckabee.”
It seems they prefer to walk the plank. I told ya they would rather whine with McCain than support a conservative who is electable.
I would vote for Jeff Sessions in a heart beat. I wish we had 400 more like him.
Duncan Hunter was my first choice, so I was disappointed with his endorsement of Huckabee. Hunter didn’t support Romney because his former company Bain Capital was doing a deal with China which had to be checked for security issues. I understand his concern with this but as I understand it Romney was already out of Bain Capital when they made this deal.
Romney has talked a lot about making America competitive with China. I would like to see what he would do and don’t forget he has a great track record with start up companies and troubled companies that he turned around. Unfortunately, Romney has not been in politics all his adult life so he doesn’t have a long list of politician buddies who can endorse him.
Much of Romney’s experience is in business so people don’t know about his great achievemnts. I think his achievements are more impressive than Huckabee or McCain because in politics it is easy to cover up your mistakes. In business your mistakes result in red ink on the bottom line. Romney put his money on the line every day whereas McCain and Huckabee could get by by fooling the voters which doesn’t seem like such a difficult thing to do.
I don’t think he is a staunch conservative on all issues such as the social issues, but you have to cut him some slack because in order to get elected in Massachusetts you have to jump through all kinds of politically correct flaming hoops.
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Then why bother ????
Why compromise and sell your integrity just to gain dross ????
It was Romney’s driven agenda and ambition to det to the White House
He used Mass as a stepping stone..
He didnt bother to run for re election
Now he is busy buying the White House...
RINO Romnbey will do or say or spend anything just to get elected...
But Hillary and Obama wont let him
Hes proven hes a wimp and confronts when theres no need
The Democrets will enjoy playing with him...
A vote for McCain is a vote for Hillary; a vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain.
I have more respect for John Edwards.
It always irks me to hear these open borders sellouts like Huckabee crying over the children of the ilegal aliens. The children will go back with their parents as they should. These open borders traitors never mention the harm that illegal immigration is doing to our children, they don’t count. This is so politically correct, the only children that count are the children of illegal aliens not American children.
How many American moms and dads have lost jobs or have had their wages supressed because of illegal immigration? How many more American children are living in poverty because their parents can’t find good paying jobs?
I find Huckabee to be such a hypocrit.
Did Huckabee have enough Republicans to sustain a veto? Massachusetts didn’t even have enough Republicans to sustain a veto.
Does Arkansas have gay marriage? This shows you how much more extreme Massachusetts is to Arkansas.
No, it was Huckabee who hired Juan Hernandez as his Hispanic outreach.
by the Huckster from Hope
I don’t remember him backing the amnesty bill last year. That would have been all over talk radio here in Massachusetts. I listen to Howie Carr and WRKO every day. They talk about the illegal alien problem all the time and I have never heard mention of Romney backing the illegal alien amnesty. Howie Carr is especially strong against illegal immigration, he has been talking about it for years. If Romney supported the amnesty bill, Howie Carr would have been all over him.
Romney backing the amnesty plan - is this what you are hearing from the Huckabee camp?
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