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."
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
So what you are saying is, he had to lie to get elected to be gov in Mass?
Symbolic act on Huck’s part but a good one...un-Juan like.
>>AND, it says NOTHING about not granting amnesty<<
Wrong, see item #14.
>>And, it is almost pointless, due to the final statement.<<
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So who of the three is without sin as far as telling the truth?
My Senator, Mr. Sessions, is about one of the hand full of republicans I still trust.
Can we say RINO Romney, RINO Huckabee and RINO McCain?
I think Romney is the best of the RINO’s. I think we could work with him. Don’t tell yourself that the other two are solid conservatives because they are not. They have been all over the place as well.
Can we say RINO Romney, RINO Huckabee and RINO McCain?
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Of course we can
The Siamese Triplet RINOs
RINOs R Us
By signing this document, I express to the American people that I understand the challenges of ending illegal immigration, I am personally committed to that goal, and I will take the actions reasonable and necessary to achieve it.
Ending illegal immigration is not doing anything about getting rid of the millions already here; and "reasonable and necessary" are in the mind of the weasel interpreting the phrase.
It IS meaningless noises, meant to placate, without committing to anything concrete. The whole thing is carefully worded to mean almost nothing in the way of real commitment.
So you admit that Huckabee is a RINO as well?
My Senator, Mr. Sessions, is about one of the hand full of republicans I still trust.
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You are lucky to have Sen Cute-as-a-Button
My Sen Alexander and Corker wanted to back the AMNESTY Bill last year
They were for it before they were agin it, y’all
Juan Hernandez was hired by McCain.
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He signed Jose’ Huckabee
My other senator is a republican, Shelby, but he is also an ex-dimocrat. So, I still half way don’t trust the guy.
You are so on the money!
It seems that you are right. It appears that it was McCain who hired Hernandez.
Huckabee opened up a Mexican embassy in Arkansas. Huckabee also made some deals between Arkansas businesses and Mexico.http://arkansasgopwing.blogspot.com/2008/01/could-mexico-cabinet-member-serve-as-us.html
Wasnt it Shelby who changed from Dem to Rep ????
RINO Romney ordered the police to arrest illegal aliens anfd turn them into ICE just ONE MONTH before he left office
The next Gov rescindered the order
For the first FOUR YEARS of his term, RINO Romney never bothered to stop illegal immigration or the sanctuary cities in Mass
This is *at least* as convincing as mitts pro life, pro second amendment stances..
So is Huckabee your guy? Huckabee has made all the familiar mewling noises to gain the Hispanic (Mexican) vote. What do you think of the joke that Huckabee made before LULAC when he said that someday people that looked like him (White guys) would be a minority. This is very disturbing to me. What do you think of this comment?
Yep, Senator Sessions fought the battle with the rest of us. He WAS a leader. Put his money where his mouth is.
Would be better than anyone out there at this time as a candidate fot POTUS!
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