That alone disqualifies the Huckster from getting my vote.
I can dig up the Huckster’s proamnesty quotes on immigration. I posted them last week.
.... Huckster is a big league flipflopper on immigration.
HUCKABEE on Immigration:
http://race42008.com/2008/01/12/here-we-go-again-vs-joe-carter-on-huckabee/
In 2005, Huckabee was quite vocal in his opposition to strengthen citizen verification procedures for employers and voting and cut off public assistance to illegal immigrants. He even went as far as describing the plan as “race baiting.” Huckabee said “Companies controlled by overseas corporations could feel they are unwanted in Arkansas if the Legislature approves an immigration measure now before it.” He described it as “inflammatory, race-baiting… demagoguery.” The bill forbade public assistance and voting rights to illegal immigrants. The Governor also went as far as to say, “(The Bill) inflames those who are racist and bigots and makes them think there’s a real problem… But there’s not.”
From CBS News:
Huckabee’s recent strong stand on immigration, including an intolerance toward companies that employ illegal immigrants, runs counter to the image he crafted in his final years in office. He was battling conservatives within his own party who were pushing for stricter state-level immigration measures.
Huckabee opposed a Republican lawmaker’s efforts in 2005 to require proof of legal status when applying for state services that aren’t federally mandated and proof of citizenship when registering to vote. Huckabee derided the bill as un-American and un-Christian and said the bill’s sponsor drank a different “Jesus juice.”
Roy Beck, the head of NumbersUSA and one of the leading advocates that helped defeat the McCain/Kennedy Immigration bill, on Huckabee:
“He was an absolute disaster on immigration as governor. Every time there was any enforcement in his state, he took the side of the illegal aliens.”
Peter Gadiel, president of 9-11 Families for a Secure America, on Mike Huckabee:
“Huckabee is the guy who scares the heck out of me.”
Steven A. Camarota, research director for the Center for Immigration Studies, on Mike Huckabee:
“I would say that Huckabee comes from the same perspective on the issue that George W. Bush came from — that out of a strong sense of compassion, he tries to identify with someone who comes to the United States, even if they came illegally.”
James J. Boulet Jr., executive director of English First, on Mike Huckabee:
“Huckabee’s worse than Hillary Clinton… When you call someone a racist, what you’re saying is, don’t listen to that bad man — you’re not engaging the argument, and the argument is there. I don’t see anywhere in the Bible where it says the way God wants us to help the poor is to lobby for the government to spend money on them… Mike Huckabee could very easily be the vice-presidential nominee. He is actually worse than Giuliani on illegal immigration. Huckabee has swallowed the Kool-Aid completely.”
Huckabee on the Bush Immigration Plan before it became the unpopular thing to support:
Huckabee said his faith leads him to take positions on issues — like immigration — that “tend to be a little unconventional.” On immigration, Huckabee aligns himself with President Bush rather than more conservative elements of the Republican Party, favoring a “pathway to citizenship” for those who at one time entered the United States illegally.