Seems I'm not the only one who noted some dissonance last Saturday when Mike Huckabee came out at the Washington Briefing sounding like a true-blue immigration reformer.
From OneNewsNow:
Roy Beck, president of Numbers USA, says Huckabee's past record on immigration has not matched his recent rhetoric, citing several instances when the former governor "stood up for illegal aliens" during federal immigration raids in Arkansas. "It does not seem to me that, as governor, he particularly lived by those principles, at least strongly so. I am always happy to see someone learn more about an issue and come around and take better positions," he states. "We welcome what seems to be some change of heart."
Beck says Huckabee received an "F" for his past record on immigration, but his recent statements have pulled him up to the "B" range.
I talked to a lot of folks, many of them leaders in the "values voter" constituency, at the Washington Briefing, who are enthusiastic about Huckabee. Sadly, not a single one was aware of Huckabee's disappointing record on immigration, nor were they aware of his "I'm a grace Christian, not a law Christian" and big-government leanings that sound a lot like President Bush's misguided "compassionate conservatism."
If he's come around on immigration, that's great. If that's the case, I hope he also comes around to realizing that more government is not the way to deal with our most pressing problems, but getting responsibility, accountability and community back at the level of average Americans.
You can talk the talk all day long, but until you walk the walk, I'm unconvinced. As they say, talk is cheap, and we've been lied to too many times by politicians for me to buy something without proof of what I'm getting.
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