I don’t believe Mike Huckabee
He’s an open borders drag queen, and he’s piling on the make-up and jewels again to disguise his pro-illegal immigration record in time for the South Carolina primary. The Washington Times reports that he has signed a NumbersUSA pledge to oppose any new shamnesty measures and reduce illegal immigration through attrition. I don’t believe Mike Huckabee:
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee yesterday continued to move to the right on immigration during this year’s presidential campaign, signing a pledge to enforce immigration laws and to make all illegal aliens go home.
The pledge, offered by immigration control advocacy group Numbers USA, commits Mr. Huckabee to oppose a new path to citizenship for current illegal aliens and to cut the number of illegal aliens already in the country through attrition by law enforcement — something Mr. Huckabee said he will achieve through his nine-point immigration plan.
Here’s a reminder of Huckabee’s dodge on illegal alien ID cards on the Laura Ingraham show (YouTube vid via Tim Sumner, who has more):
Partial transcript:
LG: You didn’t come out against [the Mexican] consulate issuing consular ID cards though, did you?
MH: I actually signed a bill in 2005 that prohibited people from getting a driver’s license who were illegal–
LI: –that’s not answering the question, governor. I understand that. But that’s not answering the question. Because I’m staying on this consulate issue. On the issue of the Mexican consulate, did you or did you not oppose the Mexican consulates issuing ID cards that are then used by illegal aliens to open bank accounts and get a number of other social services beyond health care and beyond education in the United States.
MH: Well, what I want to do is fix this entire problem by having sealed borders.
As I’ve noted before, it’s not much of a “fix” if he’s inviting foreign consulates to rent out space for $1 a year to hand out bogus illegal alien ID cards so more immigration laws can be broken.
Past actions speak louder than election-year words.
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Politician=If lips are moving there’s lying going on.
Example: Bill Clinton
He places a Mexican consulate in Little Rock. . .and now states he wants to deport all illegals.
Right. He ran conservative Arkansas as a liberal when he didn’t need to for any political reasons (as opposed to Romney in Massachusetts), which proves he really is a Clintonian liberal.
Someone here yesterday called him a pro-life Democrat and that is exactly what he is.
Me either.
Who has a record of ending illegal immigration and deporting illegals. I’ve got news for you, NOT ANYONE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT!
So lighten up Michelle. Governor Huckabee no more likely not to end illegal immigration than any other candidate running for office.
Governor Huckabee seems to have the only extensive plan to deal with the issue, which proves he’s more than just talk.
Why doesn’t he deserve just as much a chance to make good on his word than anyone else?
The fact is, you can choose the establishment guys who have never kept their promises, or you can look at someone like Governor Huckabee or Duncan Hunter who isn’t so interested in power as they are raising America up.
I support Governor Huckabee and I’m willing to give him a chance to prove he is a man of his word. I’ve seen no reason to doubt it.
Thanks for allowing me to comment, Michelle.
The Huckster will promise whatever he thinks he needs to promise, first to get the nomination and then the Presidency. He and the DemocRATs are both running for Panderer-in-Chief.
He wants to be our “moral” leader, too, by force of law. Although he is a preacher he seems never to have read or understood “…Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.”
Fred Thompson appears to be the only candidate who can say “No” and really mean it to those who want to use government to advance their unConstitutional agendas.
I’ll believe it when Tom Tancredo says its so.
This is copied from HotAir….
True.
The more I listen to this guy, the less I like him. And no, he can’t be trusted. I haven’t see a real backbone to anything he had said so far.
So much contempt for our intelligence. I guess the Huckster doesn’t think we will notice his views changing as he scrambles for votes. Huck is the one with the “duh” factor in play…not us.
Oh Tommy boy,
You must be a relative, or from Hope, Arkansas? (I suppose you think Bill didn’t really have sexual relations with that intern….?)
You are brave to come in here and insinuate Duncan Hunter and Huckabee -to borrow MM’s phrase - are birds of a feather.
I stand by test of above - Tancredo looked at both Huckabee’s and Romney’s record, their ACTUAL record as Governors (not just the one they want you to think they had) and Romney won hands down between the two of them.
I could forgive him for not being out front on this issue as an early adopter, but Mike’s not even a fast follower.
If it wernt for those lame brains in Iowa we wouldnt even be talking about Huck de Dumpty.
I wasn’t going to say anything until you lumped Hunter in with the Shuckster. If you think Shucky isn’t interested in power and only wants to raise America up. Then please explain why he wants to shutdown Gitmo? If raising up America and securing our borders is what Shuckyboy wants please explain this:
“Mr. Huckabee is trying to fool the Republican primary electorate.”
…And it’s working.
Mr. Huckster is a charlatan.
A Huckabee by any other name would be a Billy Jeff
Not only do I not believe him, I don’t like him. Something insidious about him on a visceral level. I read Ann Coulter’s column this morning to find she is apparently endorsing Romney.
On January 17th, 2008 at 9:44 am, ajmontana said:
If it wernt for those lame brains in Iowa we wouldnt even be talking about Huck de Dumpty.
aj, you need to be more specific as to which lame brains e.g. Ronulans or Rinos,or Independent/Libertarian or…..
At least McCain is honest. Borders first because the USA citizen will not allow us to give amnesty first. What a bunch of B.S.
Huckabee is entirely too Christian, and what I mean by too Christian is that he is nothing at all like Christ. He has adopted the mantra of the progressives about what they would like Christ to have been like. It is like he is a liberal in mind body and soul. Incappable of looking at a fact and coming to a reasonable conclusion about what that fact means.
Yup. I don’t believe him either and I won’t vote for him, even if he wins the Republican nomination. I’ll stay home if that’s what we come to.
McCain is not being honest either. He wants to seal the border - to keep all those budding American citizens in the country.
Huckabee is the PT Barnum of this election. His use of smoke and mirrors is amazing. Any one that evasive is not to be trusted.
What’s wrong with all of you, you don’t believe Huckleberry he is a Babtist minister and all does’nt that mean he does’nt lie about anything.
Black cloud form’s over his head and lighting strikes.
I can only hope.
You are right to be skeptical about Huckabee. But the Republican party as a whole is pretty much dedicated to the amnesty program for some strange reason.
What will happen is some sort of amnesty that he personally doesn’t define as amnesty like McCain did. McCain doesn’t believe that giving people citizenship for entering the country illegally is amnesty if we charge them $5000 for it. I imagine he wouldn’t feel the same way about sham marriages to foreigners to gain citizenship. Would it be amnesty to have them pay $5000 and get the citizenship that they broke the law to get? I bet he would think it would be amnesty and not a good idea.
The people in Washington DC no longer do anything to protect Americans. They only do what they have to to protect themselves.
#4 Huckleberry stated that he also wants to amend the US Constitution to reflect his vision of what God wants. The left thinks that the Huckster and McCain are the best GOP candidates and will attract dem and independent voters? What about what conservatives want? I guess it is nice to have a prospective Prez who can work with and push for the liberal agenda. McCain would delight in that also. Why bother with that when we can cut out the middlemen and just fold and elect Obambi who will work with everyone (as long as the right goes along with the socialist agenda)? Bush and others have “worked” tirelessly with fatboy Kennedy and given him much of what he desires and still he wants more. GOP should draft Teddy K as the nominee. Maybe four years of his governing would show us the way. Think of all the great Supreme Court picks if Hillary, Obama or Ted could do the choosing.
Hmmm… like all the other Republican candidates are rock-solid anti-illegal-immigration … the constant harping on Huckabee from the rightosphere smells … couldn’t be anti-evangelical bias, could it?
As someone who lived through both Slick Willie and the Huckster as gooberners here in Arkansas, I’d say the Huckster isn’t up to Slick Willie slickness yet, but he’s getting there fast.
It is a little too late to be joining the NumbersUSA pledge,Huckabeast.
Glad Laura interviewed him. I don’t think he answered her question in the spinning.
He knows he is in trouble on this issue.
Ahhh. The art of political reinvention to counter past transgressions on the part of a candidate. We have to love election year, dont’ we?
RE: “Pastor” Huckabee –
“If I can see and hear you, you ain’t spiritual” — Monte Hall, 1/17/2008
Would you prefer John McCain or Rudy Giuliani, who don’t even pretend to be good on this issue?
That old line about not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good comes to mind. Outside of Duncan Hunter, do any of the candidates have a good record on immigration?
From today’s column by Ann Coulter.
Which means it is also not amnesty if we charge them $500. Or $50. Or fifty cents.
For anyone with any illusions left about McCain’s honesty, there’s a good rundown on Townhall this morning by Maggie Gallagher. In part:
Just because McCain says it’s “straight talk” don’t make it so.
And I wonder if McCain now would accuse his friend Huckabee of flip-flopping on immigration - since this is a pretty blatant “about face” on the eve of what may be a make-or-break primary for Huck. Call me jaded, but this is pretty transparent…
Romney has his flaws as well, but I’m starting to think he is he best we have a shot at getting.
I wonder what it means to them, since we are already paying for them being here with higher medical costs, etc.?
A Huck win in South Carolia looks like it would be preferable to a McCain win.
At least Huck pretends that he cares what we think.
He thinks that Americans are as brain dead as he is. He can sign any thing he likes before an election. A leopard can’t change his spots. He is an open borders lib like Shillary.
Vote Fred D. Thompsom
Cost of illegals in the USA:
No Shucky or Julie Annie for me.
You are on a conservative’s website, whose commenters are overwhelmingly conservative. Your comment about anti-evangelical bias doesn’t hold any water here. If you will take note, most people have commented about his record on illegal immigration and Gitmo. I could careless about his religiousity, it only becomes a factor when he utilizes it in such a disingenious way.
He is trying to fool folks and by golly, he is succeeding. It seems people are looking for a commander-in-chief in all the wrong places.
Huckabee is trailing McCain in South Carolina. If he comes from behind and wins, everyone will be signing this pledge. Wouldn’t that be a good thing?
I love Thompson, but he seems to be going nowhere. He is in fourth place in SC.
I still can’t figure out why Huck is in the ‘Republicna’ primaries.
McCain, Giuliani, and Paul are. Why not Huck?
Query: based on records and policy statements, is Gov. Huckabee more or less conservative than Pres. Bush?
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He has been born again.
Huckabee is a FRAUD ! I emailed his site this morning to tell him that he lies. He gives in state tuition to illegals and now he wants us to believe that he will throw out all illegals. Give me a break ! I might be a genius, but I’m not that gullible.
I trust the Huckster about as far as I can throw him on properly dealing with the illegal invasion of our country. I doubt I could even pick him up with my rapidly aging back.
What does it matter? Each have their strengths and their weaknesses. And for Gov. Huckabee those weaknesses are too much for us to stomach.
I don’t believe anything the Huckster says. Look at his kids for crying out loud. One son goes and lynches a dog at a Boy Scout Summer Camp and somehow, just somehow, his kid manages to still attain the rank & privilege of Eagle Scout.
His kid cheapens the meaning of Eagle Scouts everywhere and I would bet that Daddy Huckster applied pressure on the local BSA Council to get his son’s Eagle award. Anyone else would have been invited to leave the Scouting program, let alone be awarded the Eagle Scout rank.
Huckster is a slick snake oil salesman and is trustworthy as the last presidential candidate from Arkansas.
We don’t need another Jimmy Carter in the White House and Chuck Norris is a blind fool.
I like Chuck as actor/martial artist. But, I don’t put any stock in what any actor, either from the left or right, has to say about a candidate for elected office.
What additional insight do actors have that I don’t. They put their pants on one leg at a time, just like me. The only difference is, they might have someone to hold them while they do it.
I know someone is waiting to do one of the Chuck Norris things about how he does a flying jump kick and lands with both feet, simultaneously, no less, in the pants or some similar expression.
Nope, is it biased not to trust cryin Jimmy Swaggert, lying and crying Jim Baker, shifty Benny Hinn.
#4 Tommy Brents:
Please, sir. Huck is changing his story in an attempt to get elected. Plain and simple. I’m very sorry he’s pulled the wool over your eyes, but he hasn’t done it to me!
Obviously you haven’t read Fred Thompson’s ILLEGAL Immigration Plan!
I met Chuck Norris in a Baptist church in Dallas, so it does’nt suprise me that he is supporting a Baptist. He’s a really nice guy but I don’t put much into any endorsment’s. Zig Ziglar goes to the same Church, I like Zig and went to his Bible Study class and I sat next to him and his family during the service, he also is a really nice guy but I would’nt take his endorsement as gospel either.
huck’s 9 point immigration plan is a plagarizm from National Review’s printed a year and a half to two years ago. It isn’t his, he stole it; and that should tell you all you need to know about this guy.
wolf in sheeps clothing.
It’s totally relevant 30. Folks are claiming that Gov. Huckabee is not a “conservative”. I’m just looking for a little intellectual honesty. Do you consider Pres. Bush to be a “conservative” based on his record? BTW, the illegal immigration issue is clearly not a Republican/Democrat issue, and I’m not sure it’s even a conservative/liberal issue. It’s more like a big business/populist issue.
corona, I am a born-again charismatic evangelical chrisitan. i smell a snake called the Huckster. His fruit is rotten. I cannot judge his heart as to salvation, but I can judge his fruit. He is a wolf in sheeps clothing. a clinton/carter clone watch out for this devil with a shepherd’s staff.
he has stolen the 9 point plan from National Review. he is a liar.
He has a plan so he’s not just talk? Please, have another cup of coffee and think that through.
AlohaGuy, true dat, but which candidate can really point to anything other than the fact that he or she “has a plan”. Let’s be real…nobody (including Tancredo) has actually done anything but talk about this problem at the federal level. It’s all talk at this point.
BTW, spent Christmas on Maui. You are a very lucky man to live in maybe the most amazing place on the planet.
I have a plan too - Come into a vast fortune and retire to live the easy life.
However, my problem has been bringing that to fruition.
We can have all the plans we want but we have to be able to make it a reality too. It also helps if one is honest with the constituency.
Wow, Michelle going for the Hunka slam. Sorry, inside joke.
Speaking as a Christian conservative, I will not vote for Huck unless he get’s the nob (which is moot as he will not).
I believe that he believes he is a conservative. And he may well be but his stance on illegal immigration, securing our borders and Gitmo have justifiably rubbed conservatives the wrong way. What we are searching for in a conservative President he clearly does not exhibit.
Pres Bush hasn’t always been Mr. Unity. He recently began this push for unity and bipartisanship. He has become lax in many regards; however, when it comes right down it he holds tight to his beliefs. We cannot say the same for Huckabee.
So, do I think Pres. Bush is a conservative - yes. Do I think Huckabee is a conservative - yes. Can I coin a phrase here? How about CINO. Conservative in Name Only. Somebody probably already has coined that phrase… And I don’t want to labeled a plagarist so all credit to them. :-)Whoever “them” is.
Soap,
What’s a “nob?”
If after reading Michelle’s above entry you’re still firmly committed to Huckabee, or merely leaning in his direction, I urge you to read Ann Coulter’s latest column, available on her Web site, explaining why there is uneasiness amongst the right with his candidacy. The evidence she lays out against Huckabee’s veracity and viability as a conservative candidate will either strengthen your support for him, or enlighten you as to why he is definitely not the GOP’s best choice.
As I said before, Huckabee would make the perfect running mate for Hillary - and she will need him: After having alienated the majority of black voters with her incessant attacks on Obama, Hillary will need Huckabee to put her over with religious Americans on both sides of the isle in order to make up for those votes lost.
And, as there is little to no difference between the views of both Hillary and Huckabee on most of the major issues facing our nation like immigration, taxes, government spending, I have no doubt Huckabee will accept an offer to be Hillary’s vice president.
30, a sdrawkcab “d”
Sorry!
I know…just pulling your chain.
I don’t trust Huckleberry, McLame, or Rudy. Actions speak louder than words. As there is no way to foretell what a candidate will do once elected, we must make our decisions based on past behaviors. Their records suggest that they are not to be believed.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.
And I thought calling Romney a flip flop artist was harsh,. Where does that leave me with Huckabee who is doing somersaults trying to distract from his $1 micos leases and in-state tuition, and McCain trying to cartwheel along in hopes we will not remember his arrogant behavior with Graham-Kennedy Amnesty (and his vile remarks to opponents) this past summer…
If these guys keep winning votes, I think I’ll puke. And then go re-register as an independent. Im not leaving the Republican Party - it is leaving me and other conservatives.
Bet his bible is on fire.
Gotta love it when a paster will lie to your face.
You are definitely not alone.
I don’t believe McVain has learned his lesson either.
They are both a couple of snake-oil salesmen.
McCain proven a liar (yet again)
That was the position of his rival John McCain when he ran for president in 2000; after losing, McCain said he had not been honest about his feelings and that the flag should go.
Well, Hunter got 26 miles of fence built…
Thank you. But hey, it got so cold the other night I closed a couple of windows…
I do believe him when he said he fried squirrels in a popcorn popper in his college dorm.
This squirrel frying, tax raising, illegal alien panderer, father of fraudulent masochistic Eagle Scout wants us to vote for him to be President of the United States of America.
The last president from Arkansas got BJs and did NOT smoke cigars in the Oval office, and the next one will fry squirrels.
If the dems have their way, Huck or McCain would certainly be the GOP candy-date.
Either of them would bow out to let Hillary step in and win easier.
Huck thinks we are all huckleberries.
Well, of course, who could possibly believe Huckles the Clown, but in his defense these kinds of grandiose, over the top statements that he and Obama have mastered, seem to be the thing the electorate craves as we enter the era of Peter Pan Politics (aka the Politics of Cultural Despair).
If your opponent says he is going to unite the planet, you announce you are going to unite the entire solar system.
If your opponent says that following his election, he will pull out the troops in ten months, you announce you will pull them out in ten seconds.
If your opponent wants a strong border and meaningful enforcement of applicable laws, you announce you will deport all illegals as your first act as President — just before selecting your breakfast order, in fact.
All this displays a complete lack of understanding how the world works, something one might expect from a feverish 10-year old who reads nothing but comics and watches nothing but cartoons but not adults, presumably.
Conway Arkansas here….
…and we here in the state are OVERRUN with Illegal Aliens, thanks to Ultra-Lib Schmuckabee.
Who would have thought that under that 100lbs of fat he lost, Karl Marx has been hiding all this time.
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If Mike Huckabee really has become a Born-again Conservative, I welcome him with open arms. As long as his conversion is sincere, I have no problem with it. And it doesn’t matter whether it occurred on the road to Damascus or on the road to Des Moines.
But how do you tell if a conversion is sincere? Doesn’t someone who has had a true conversion admit he has changed his ways and confess his prior mistakes? I have heard Romney admit being mistaken on his prior pro-choice views. But when has Huckabee ever admitted that he made any mistakes as Governor?
Whenever someone asks Huckabee a point blank question about ID cards, raising taxes, or any other liberal thing he did as Governor, all he ever does is avoid the question or change the subject, just like he did in the interview with Laura Ingraham. Until I hear him admit he was wrong, I cannot believe he has had a true conversion to conservatism.
Huckabee is Elmer Gantry meets Jimmy Carter. Populism is not conservatism.
I sent another contribution to Fred Thompson yesterday. I hope it arrives in time to do some good.
I never thought Huckabee had a snowflakes chance in hell of ever being president and still don’t. What amazes me is that so many people actually believe he could win. It’s a laugh riot.