On Huckabee and immigration.
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"I have to tell you, so far it's been wonderful, because all I've heard so far is people trying to out-Tancredo Tancredo. It is great! I am so happy to hear it!" 'Nuff said. 
Huckabee is stealing votes from Thompson due to Thompson's slothiness, and Thompson is fighting back. Huckabee and his support of illegal immigration is a key vulnerability Thompson, belatedly, is using. Once Huckabees big "Fundie" rally wanes, after Iowa and NH are done, stuff like him favoring illegals over US citizens for limited university money will stick even in Baptist craws as it did with the Huckster's own Arkansan Baptists. Blacks in state were also pissed when minority funds for college went to "more qualified illegals" than them. The Huckster likes to say you can't punish the child for the sins of the parent, but we do in all other cases where the "fruits of the crime" spread past the perp, in gaining restitution. When a person committs illegal acts, like defrauding his investors and is caught, the children "suffer" a lowered standard of living as the mansion is sold and the kids lose their Hawaiian vacation...When someone lies on a college scholarship and steals it from an honest student, society tries to reallocate the lost scholarship to the truly deserving one. And when a man burglarizes a house and gives the owner's jewelry and flat screen HD to his daughter and son, the law still takes that stuff away from the "innocent children who did nothing wrong themselves".
"you can't punish the child for the sins of the parent" I cringe when I hear that, because Huckabee opposed school vouchers for parents who want to take their kids out of failing government schools and put them in a private or parochial school. So a child whose taxp-paying parent wants to escape the failing public schools is penalized, but an illiegal immigrant who wants to escape Mexico is rewarded with free tuition at those same taxpayers expense. That's Huckabee's compassion at it's finest. Punish the law abiding and reward the criminal. It's the same sort of compassion that would lead Huckabee to write a "Dear Wayne" letter to a convicted rapist supporting his parole, but never even think to contact the families of the victims to express their sorrow.
Reporter Tom Bevan in an article on Real Clear Politics wants to know the answer to this question, I think it's an excellent question so I'll post it here too, in the hopes that Huck or someone will else will ask it.... "Governor, in the YouTube debate a few weeks back you had exchange with Mitt Romney over your support for a bill that allowed illegal immigrants in the Arkansas school system to become eligible for in-state tuition breaks. You rebuffed Governor Romney's attack with a simple, powerful message by saying, "In all due respect, we are a better country than to punish children for what their parents did. We're a better country than that." Would your plan require that all school age children who are here illegally be taken out of schools all across the country and forcibly deported, and wouldn't that, in fact, be punishing those children for something their parents did? If so, haven't you proposed a plan that is beneath the America you so eloquently defended just a few weeks ago?" What would Huck do?
The more I look into Fred Thompson,the more I like his no nonsense approach on posistions. He seems to be a true conservative and has been that way his whole carreer. If you really want to know what a candidates veiw on a certain position is,look at how he's voted in the past and not what he or she is saying now just to win the popular vote. Plus I believe he's got better exsperience than any other candidate. GO FRED!!!,,and thanks for your conservative views.
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The other candidate who went as negative as Thompson was Brownback. Where is he now?
Posted by Joe | December 14, 2007 4:46 PM