I've wished I were the interviewer or a debate contestant as Huckabee has kept "snowing" everybody about "Meritorious Scholarships" vs. "In-State Tuition Breaks" for illegal immigrants. George Stephanopolous finally nailed him as being deceitful on the issue:
Then he seems flabbergasted by George's question on whether or not he'd similarly support federal tuition breaks, federal student loans, and federal Pell Grants for illegal immigrants (like he'd never even thought about it):
He also opposed a bill that would have required proof of citizenship for voting (with a pretty lame excuse IMO):
NOTE TO HUCKABEE . . . IT'S THIS KIND OF "COMPASSION CONSERVATISM" BY YOU AND OTHERS THAT IS JUST AS MUCH OF A MAGNET FOR ILLEGALS TO COME HERE AS ARE THE JOBS. YOU ARE COMPOUNDING AND PROPAGATING THE PROBLEM WITH SUCH POLICIES!
If govenrment has enough money to provide scholarships/tuition breaks shouldn't our own citizens and legal immigrants have first priority? (Mitt made this argument at a Cedar Rapids, Iowa "Ask Mitt Anything" event last week that I saw on C-SPAN)
Jeff Fuller
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Good catch! Hopefully the people of Iowa will see all of that before they make a HUGE mistake and vote for Mike Up-Chuck-abee! Even Bush hasn't pushed for Federal Student Aide for illegal aliens. And it was the Bush Justice Department that ruled that Arizona's Proposition 200 in 2004 requiring proof of citizenship to vote was absolutely constitutional. I think that Romney needs to make a bigger deal out of this. Even George Stephanopolous is forced to ask: "Why is it demagoguery to require proof of citizenship to vote?"
Once again, Mike Up-Chuck-abee is the cure for conservatives to Bush fatigue!
George (I won't venture on the spelling of the surname) actually did a pretty good job of using Amnesty Mike's own justification against him. Huckabee is terrible on illegal immigration. I don't think George Bush 43 could give him a run for his money on this issue.
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