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."
Hey, thanks. Sorry for the bad formatting on the previous post.
It’s time for John McCain to take the pledge!
Whatever Jeff Sessions came up with I trust him, but does anyone have the details of the Sessions pledge?
FReepers may need to reevaluate Mike Huckabee. Sadly, he is probably the best guy out there now.
At times I’ve thought about Romney. My biggest concern was, is he really pro life or is this just something to say to get votes. There are some things that President Bush has or hasn’t done that I haven’t liked but I have always found him honest. If he really is upset that Romney recently changed positions on an immigration program he was agreeing to then sorry. Maybe 2012. He needs to walk the walk awhile. You Thompson and Duncan people that are supporting Romney....do you have concerns about this too?
Why is he so silent on John McCain? One might conclude that he is a coward afraid McCain will go ballistic, he agrees with McCain's amnesty, and he has a deal going with McCain.
Huckabee's statements on Jordan and WMD is material for Jay Leno. hehehe
I’m on way too many “I hate Huckabee” threads:’) Sorry. That last post wasn’t supposed to go here but I guess it really doesn’t matter.
Oh C’mom. Most of the attacks have been retaliation from being attacked.
A deal has been struck, obviously. Wonder what Juan offered him.
It's always a pain having to balance what a candidate says compared to what they have done. I think on balance he is our best choice of the three.
HMM. Can we make him post a bond towards the fence if he flips on us? :’)
I don’t care if he walks on water. He’s NO conservative, and I hope he falls on his face.
I fixed mine up before i posted it
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If Huckabee really cared about stopping illegal immigration, he wouldn’t be doing everything he can to get the pro-amnesty candidate elected.
And they call Mitt the flip-flopper? LOL
McCain has also done major flips on Illegals & Taxcuts.
What about the thread where Bush supposedly is saying he changed position on the border. If he would do that to win votes why wouldn’t he do the same for abortion? Maybe he means it but.....dang....what if he flips again? Huckabee isn’t much better but he does have a good pro-life track. John McCain, who knows?
Hey, we know he’s a recent convert to immigration. He’s also gonna be expensive. I guess it comes down to who is the best flipper. What a mess.
Let me get this straight, Nana. You have posted hundreds of times that Romney is no good because he changed his position on this or that 2,4,8,12 years ago. And yet you post this article that shows Huckabee being the worst offender on the biggest issue for many conservatives and yet not a peep from you. This move by Huckabee is in addition to signing the No Amnesty Pledge a day before the SC Primary. This is in addition to Huckabee’s applauding support for a Mexican Consulate, in-state tuition for illegals and a variety of other open border policies.
All I can gather from this article is that Huckabee is the most blatant flip-flopper but can afford to be since he has given up winning and plans to run interference for McCain in the southern states. It won’t work. John McCain will not win enough delegates on Super Tuesday to win the nomination and alot of voters are going to switch from Huckabee to Romney especially if Huckabee has to drop out.
Lori
RINO Romney is no conservative either..
What do you hope for him ???
I posted it because I work against illiegal immigration...
If its OK for Romney to decide hes pro-life after 40 years of being pro-abortion...
Why is it different wshen Huck decides he was wrong on illegal immigration ???
Now the question is...Will RINO Romney sign the pledge also ???
Last year he backed the AMNESTY Bill
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