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Friday, November 23rd, 2007...1:22 pm

Kudos To Mike Huckabee

Given Huckabee’s opposition to a woman’s right to choose to terminate a pregnancy I could never vote for the guy, but I think he deserves recognition and a big atta boy for his decidedly humane position on illegal immigration.

Below is what he had to say in an ABC News interview I ran across at the Talking Points Memo website.

The ABC report also illustrates that Rudy Guiliani is a lying, pandering piece of pond scum. His position on illegal immigrants in 1996 was essentially the same as that enunciated by Huckabee. Now that he’s running for president, however, he has changed his tune.

Speaking of Guiliani, you can read here his explanation that though he voted for McGovern he really wanted to vote for Nixon. I wonder what medication the guy’s on.

By the way, I am eagerly awaiting Guliani’s inevitable public melt down, when he goes berserk in response to a question he doesn’t like.

“HUCKABEE: The issue that we’ve got to deal with is that, if you have a federal government that never deals with a secure border and then fails to do anything about dealing with people when they get employed and they can get employed with false documents, the question is, why don’t you secure the border, end the sanctuary cities and amnesty, which I would do? But I wouldn’t punish the children who didn’t commit a crime. You don’t do that in this country. We have a long history of — we penalize law-breakers. We don’t penalize their children for something they can’t help.

“If a child is gasping for air, asthmatic, and he’s on the hospital steps, what do the other candidates suggest we do, let him sit there and gasp until he doesn’t have any air left and he dies? If a child comes to our school — and our law, by the way, in most of our states, mine certainly says you’ve got to educate a child if he’s of child age — what do you, break your own law and say, “No, you can’t come in the schoolhouse door”?

“No, you don’t do that. What you do is you elect a president who will fix the problem where it needs to be fixed: at the border. But if your government at the federal government 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. That’s not what this country does. We’re a better country than that.

“Now, if that causes people to say, ‘Well, I’m not going to vote for him,’ fine. There are plenty of candidates out there who I guess would grind their heel in the face of a 6-year-old child. Not me.”

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