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 senators 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."
The only thing that will redeem him is if his pro open border supporters (Tysons, various businesses employing illegals, Latino groups) en masse pull their support and ask for refunds of their campaign contributions.
As it is, it seems they are STILL supporting him, and also contributing to him, so that tells you something.
Is Bush mad at Huckabee for his immigration stand?
He is at Romney.
That wasn’t why most of us were opposed to Huckabee, it was only one of the reasons.
I’ve already got a candidate who is strong in illegal immigration, so there’s no point in switching.
This will be forgotten by the time he takes office, and he will be flipping back to his “This is unChristian and we’re a better nation than the racists like Sessions who want to deprive innocent children of their grandparents just because they speak a different language and want to see each other again before they die.” There I think that captures the true Huckleberry.
Forgotten?
This?
Not hardly.
See one year ago.
Vote for Obama. Huckabee is worse than McCain. He is more phony than a six dollar bill.
All of them do.
Please list everyone else who has signed Sessions' pledge.
Being pro-embryonic cell research is NOT pro-life.
“Vote for Obama.”
Ain’t gonna happen cuz,
Lesser of the finalist,I reckon, we do vote the 5th.,
“Vote for Obama.”
Ain’t gonna happen cuz,
Lesser of the finalist,I reckon, we do vote the 5th.,
If you say somthing twice do you really mean it..?
Huckabee is a repulsive human being.
All these personal attacks are repulsive.
If Duncan Hunter believes he can be trusted on border/immigration and WOT issues, I would trust Duncan Hunter’s informed, educated judgment after he spent a year getting to know the candidates, than I would trust the opinion of any of the haters on here.
Your love for the socialist from Hope has long been noted.
I want no part of it.
Its not like we think Romney is the second coming of Ronaldus Magnus but of what we have left there is no choice but Mitt. McCain is clearly a democrat running in the wrong primary and Huckabee is a Clinton cousin trying to run the same campaign Bill ran in 1992 (hoping Ross Perot will derail the rest of the country and he can win a non-majority plurality).
If McCain wins, there will be two democrats in the general election but will have separate conventions. And I don’t believe for a single moment that John McCain agrees with me on judges since he thinks O’Connor was still a great judge and would put her up there again.
A VOTE FOR HUCKABEE IS A VOTE FOR HUCKABEE!!
Huckabee - reliably pro-life, not recently pro-life.
Huckabee - reliably pro 2nd amendment, not recently 2nd amendment.
He understands that it is for self defense, not just hunting and sports.
He is an ardent, articulate supporter of the Fair Tax, and I believe he really “gets it”. It is the best hope on the horizon for giving power back to the people, and waking people up to the stranglehold the current tax system has on the people and the economy.
If Duncan Hunter believes he can be trusted on border/immigration and WOT issues, I would trust Duncan Hunter’s informed, educated judgment after he spent a year getting to know the candidates, than I would trust the opinion of any of the haters on here.
Don’t let the people who say he can’t be elected give us another self fulfilling prophecy of having to settle for someone we have to HOPE will do what he says. Right now it’s just name recognition, and when most people get to know Mike Huckabee, they like him.
They were both governors, but those people give Romney a pass for not being able to do what he “really” wanted, because he had a Democrat legislature to work with, when Huckabee was able to work successfully with his Democrat legislature.
Every vote for Mike Huckabee on Tuesday will be one more vote to show the establishment and the media that the election can’t be bought and we don’t to settle for their opinion of “that’s the best we can get”.
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