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Huckabee?
Dec. 17th, 2007 | 10:36 am
American Thinker has a great article about Huckabee by Selwyn Duke, expressing my thoughts exactly:
And while, of course, I'm a pro-life only voter (and I like that aspect about Huckabee—BUT SEE BELOW!), I do have to say that a pro-illegal immigration president such as him would be ghastly. It would be bad enough giving them all amnesty, but with him nothing would be done to solve the problem of border crossings—and something desperately needs to be done.
That said, Ann Coulter, in an interview recently, talked about a judge that Huckabee got through to one of the circuit appeals courts and who he would likely nominate for the Supreme Court who declared that anti-abortion signs (of any kind, I believe) should be banned from highways because they are "offensive". That's screwed up. You can't just choose an issue and declare signage on it offensive while ignoring every other issue out there.
When evangelicals embraced Jimmy Carter during the 1976 presidential campaign, they didn't know he would repudiate the Southern Baptist Convention a generation later. Today the very same constituency has glommed onto Mike Huckabee, and I can't help but lament how history truly does repeat itself.Back in my pre-Republican days, I would have fainted in womanly horror had someone told me that I would have the stance on immigration that I have today. That is, that people don't have an inherent right to be here. That is, I believe that the border needs to be enforced, not just for security, but on principle. America is a club—a really nice club compared to most other countries (to quote blogger Julia Gorin: "There's really no need for other countries!")—and people need to fill out the proper paperwork to be here. If one wants to come be a leech on our welfare programs, fine, just do it the legal way at least.One can see why the man I dubbed "Huck the Huckster" would appeal to evangelicals. He's a pro-life Southern Baptist minister with charm, wit and a good-ol'-boy, yuck-it-up style. Yet this resplendent exterior only serves to obscure the stain of liberal sin.
Huck would be a disaster - a disaster - on immigration...
And while, of course, I'm a pro-life only voter (and I like that aspect about Huckabee—BUT SEE BELOW!), I do have to say that a pro-illegal immigration president such as him would be ghastly. It would be bad enough giving them all amnesty, but with him nothing would be done to solve the problem of border crossings—and something desperately needs to be done.
That said, Ann Coulter, in an interview recently, talked about a judge that Huckabee got through to one of the circuit appeals courts and who he would likely nominate for the Supreme Court who declared that anti-abortion signs (of any kind, I believe) should be banned from highways because they are "offensive". That's screwed up. You can't just choose an issue and declare signage on it offensive while ignoring every other issue out there.