HUCKABEE: If you're government at the federal level is so incompetent
that it fails to secure the border, you don't then grind your heel into
the face of a 6-year-old child over it.

No one is talking about 6-year old children. We are talking about college tuition. I don't think Huckabee made a lot of friends with that statement. Most Americans oppose in-state resident tuition for those in-state illegally. They don't appreciate that being equated with "grinding [your] heel" in anyone's face.

That's really ugly, and I think there is going to be some backlash over it.

As an evangelical/conservative Christian, the current field of Republicans is not acceptable. Each of the candidates have major flaws, whether it be pro-abortion, anti- 2nd Amendment, or the pro-illegal-immigrant stands. I am left with Huckabee, and he seems to be a candidate that any illegal immigrant will love.

I hope nobody's actually suprised TaxHikeMike would say something like this. After all, it fits his behavior-patterns perfectly...When Republicans tolerate & support obese government candidates, it makes their hot wind about supposedly wanting to shrink government ring rather hollow in some ears. Like mine.
JMR

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Ouch. Maybe this will wake people up about Huckabee's open borders agenda. I wonder if he would give illegal aliens drivers licenses and let them vote rather than 'grinding our heel into them'.

Hah hah Mike. And if you don't lock your doors, don't expect the cops to arrest someone just for breaking into your house. In fact they ought to give the burglar a tuition break, right?

You want this problem brought under control, here's the way to do it, spelled out in sufficient detail to know he's thought about it carefully and is serious:

http://www.fred08.co...

The real media bias here is that ABC turned this interview into propping the center-right positions of a republican candidate and making him look like a liberal.

I am a supporter of Gov. Huckabee and what is being missed in the media, both in the MSM and especially in conservative websites like newsbusters.org is his conservative positions. I really don't believe that an unfair attack on a fellow republican should be the purpose of this website.

Let me go into detail about illegal immigration: If anyone honestly want to learn Gov. Huckabee's positions on Illegal immigration you can go here. He is very strongly against illegal immigration. http://www.mikehucka...

Do you want more assurance? Act 2210 of 2005 was signed into law by Governor Huckabee. The
legislation made it illegal for a driver’s license to be issued to
anyone who could not prove legal residency in Arkansas. http://roebuckreport...

On the tuition breaks, the governor only supported the measure that applied to those who met
the academic qualifications and applied for legal citizenship. The
measure didn't pass. Governor Huckabee stressed that any student would
simply be treated as any other graduate of an Arkansas High School, and
not given any special consideration.

I really want to challenge my fellow friends who commented here about candidates not being Reagan-like. Reagan was a human being and he too wasn't perfect on conservative issues. For example, Reagan had no choice but to raise taxes when he was governor in California, and Reagan approved blind amnesty to everyone and he didn't do anything to build the border. Let's not forget that. We claim to be conservatives and under the Reagan and Bush 43 administrations the national debt went up big time. What Reagan was known for was his sunny optimism and his ability to connect with all Americans, hence the term Reagan democrats came into existence.

Gov. Huckabee is not for blind amnesty and he has said time after time that the border must be built and that is the first solution to the problem of illegal immigration. He is correct in stating that the problem of illegal immigration is due to the failure of the federal government in building the border. Someone above commented about someone breaking in a house = to illegals crossing the border. You know what, there is no door, its an open field that anyone can cross through easily. Let's build the border and then discuss what happens to those who came here illegally.

Democrats are set to win congress next year and most republicans are just twittling their thumbs. It's almost like we are letting them win. Very unfortunate.

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The man has supported tax increases (there is a great video on You Tube of him supporting tax increases). He is also very soft on illegal immigration.

The more I think about it, the more I lean to supporting Ron Paul.

I have been having the hardest time settling on a candidate in this year's GOP primary because each of the candidates seems to have a serious flaw, and they all tend to be in different areas which makes my candidate preferences completely intransitive.

However, Chuck Norris endorsed Huckabee and I'm worried that if I don't support Mike, Chuck will come and roundhouse me to the fact real good like. 

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Unfortunatly, there is no perfect candidate.  Romney used government to force people to get health care. I still don't know where Rudy stands on abortion and gun rights even though he explains it often.  McCain has his name attached to several terrible bills.  Thompson is not getting me excited at all. 

I still like Huckabee however.  I do see his point that because of an inept Federal government that won't prevent illegals, as a governer, he was forced to deal with these people.  I see little wrong with his decision to allow current students in the public government system that have good grades and are in the process of being legalized to have certain opportunities that are afforded to others.  It would be difficult as a christian to give a flat out "no" to an 18 year old asking for a loan for college when he was forced to be an illegal immigrant by his parents when he was six years old.  What would happen if everyone were punished for the sins of their parents?  Huckabe says he supports the border fence and as President would work to complete it.  I'll take him at his word.

As far as taxes, I will have to reasearch his increases.  I've also read that he decreased many taxes.  I love the fact that as a candidate for President, he supports and would work to implement the Fair Tax.  If you don't know about it--it means no more income taxes, no more IRS, and no more government control of your money before you get it.  I can't imagine there is a more conservative policy than that.  The chances of repealing the 16th ammendment would be slim, but this is a great chance to get the debate of who should be in control of your money into the national spotlight.

 Aside from that, Huckabee is right on on abortion, the war on terror, gun control, he's a big Homeschool supporter, which is important to me as a homeschool parent.  I think he's a good candidate and will be interested to see how he does debate-wise now that he's top tier. 

He may have a rough time with the immigration, but all these guys  put together are not the perfect conservative and I'm afraid we will not get a great conservative before socialism hits us hard with Mrs. Clinton or a future democrat-socialist. 

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Huckabee sounds like a horrible choice.  You can't reward illegals with benefits.  Honestly, I don't know enough about this guy yet because I never took him seriously; however, his views on illegal invaders has me writing him off.

Huckabee is getting a lot of exposure in the Christian magazine Charisma.  Charisma has endorsed Huckabee and has run several articles boosting his campaign.  One of those articles was penned by James Robison, whose TV program appears weekdays on several cable channels, both secular and religious.  And the current issue includes a full page ad announcing that Huckabee will appear on the syndicated Believer's Voice of Victory with Kenneth Copeland all next week.  The topic:  Character.

I can't imagine the lefties won't jump on all of this.  Charisma is a for profit magazine, but Copeland, whose financial records are already being investigated by Sen. Chuck Grassley, may well find himself explaining his actions to the IRS.  And all of this may end up before the Federal Election Commission.

Huckabee supporters had better hope his lawyers have reviewed all of this thoroughly.

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

I am really concerned for us in this next election when I consider the perils we are facing in this country like terrorism, a crashing dollar, the Iraq war, the threat of socialized medicine, and on and on. Do you REALLY want to put all this in the hands of Hillary clinton and the moveon.org crowd?

As a Christian I would greatly prefer an anti-abortion candidate of course but in elections as in life I can't have what I want all the time and have to do the best I can with the choices in front of me.

Friends we have to vote against Hillary. Let's not let our high ideals destroy us. We have to beat her. Any of our candidates are head and shoulders above her, especially with the probability of losing so many more seats in the Senate and House. (just check out how many incumbant Republicans are not running next time!)

Wake up guys.

Here is a great article we all should read. http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/hillary-edwards-tough-1928255-big-foreign