Minuteman reconsiders Huckabee endorsement

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Minuteman reconsiders Huckabee endorsement
Gilchrist discovers candidate favors giving status to illegals within days
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59254

Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist says he will have to reconsider his endorsement of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee after learning the Republican presidential candidate favors allowing illegal aliens to wait only days to receive documents allowing re-entry into the U.S.

In a Dec. 9 Fox News interview, just two days before Gilchrist's endorsement, Huckabee was questioned by host Chris Wallace about an apparent contradiction between statements last year that he preferred a pathway to citizenship and his current plan. On his campaign website, Huckabee outlines a proposal that would require illegal aliens to repatriate and get on the back of the line, which could mean years for re-entry into the United States.

Huckabee insisted there is no discrepancy, specifying that "the pathway to get back here legally doesn't take years. It would take days, maybe weeks, and then people could come back in the workforce."
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Despite the new information about Huckabee's plan, Gilchrist declined to withdraw immediately his endorsement.

"I need to get answers from Huckabee himself about this discrepancy," Gilchrist said. "I want a valid explanation and I want it published.

"Plus, I have some other questions too that you're not aware of that I have already queried Governor Huckabee's staff about yesterday and again this morning," he continued. "But it's going to take about 72 hours to get responses."

Gilchrist declined to specify the additional questions.
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guerilla, Dec 18, 2007 IP

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Thanks. I have a relative who had just started warming up to the Huckster, because of Gilchrist's endorsements (thought Huckabee had a change of heart). This is useful.

Thanks.

So let me get this straight:

Huckabee is

Pro-Amnesty

Supports NAFTA and CAFTA

For Nation Building, building Iraqi army and infrastructure (to fight US troops later during Arab vs Israeli conflict)

Pro-Welfare state, would expand medicare.

Generally not opposed to the idea of War and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of foreigners and thousands of US soldiers to "prevent" a future death of a lesser number of Americans, then wasting $2 trillion occupying them, trying to force them to "love" us and democracy. Which of course makes them hate us.

Ahhh another fake conservative in the White House... just what we need!

Cyrus255, Dec 19, 2007 IP

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Well, and now Huckabee is involved in the CFR, which is pretty much rules him out for any patriot IMO.

guerilla, Dec 19, 2007 IP

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LMAO!

First, the Club for Growth has been running ads and actively campaigning against Huckabee on the Republican side because he is a Tax and Spend Liberal, and now the ALIPAC (Anti-Amnesty Political Action Committee) is scheduled to hammer Huckabee on being a fake conservative on immigration.

From an ALIPAC email posted at,
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=69575

Our team in Iowa has conducted over 25 talk radio interview broadcasts into Iowa and other locations around the nation. We have kept our message clear that Huckabee is trying to deceive the voters, is pro-amnesty, favors benefits for illegals, and that the endorsement of solo Minuteman Jim Gilchrist is opposed by our movement. Absolutely NO leaders have joined him in his support of the Huckster.

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ALIPAC has purchased a barrage of radio ads that will run on Tuesday and Wednesday, which will reinforce our message. We have targeted 43,000 likely Republican voter households with our message and received a 6 to 1 feedback in our favor.

We have also launched an Internet effort where our core activists are on websites all across Iowa spreading the warnings about Gilchrist and Huckabee!
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Our efforts are having an impact. Huckabee's numbers are dropping rapidly. We must prove that our collective efforts can expose a fraud and that being on the wrong side of this issue will cost a candidate their chances at winning.
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Those in our organization who are taking independent action to attack Paul or Romney should keep in mind that such actions will have a negative impact on our overall organizational strategy and that you could cost us access to the remaining campaigns we seek to interview and negotiate with.

Our movement is unified against Huckabee and Gilchrist and we ask that everyone please keep your efforts focused there.

It is unlikely you will see future operations such as this if January 3 shows that the combined and collective efforts of our movement cannot bring a candidate down from the lead.

We have future plans to address the remaining four candidates and we have a plan to deal with a possible GOP primary win by a pro-amnesty candidate should we fail to secure an anti-amnesty candidate as a choice on the ballot from the GOP field.

We will unveil new tactics and messages for Round 2 of our Iowa efforts Monday morning. The poll numbers show that Huckabee's numbers have started to dive over the last 5 days.

Let us all work together to keep our team focused on the mission. Let us all work together to make an example out of Huckabee on Jan 3.
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Man oh man, you do NOT want to piss these people off. They play for keeps!

guerilla, Dec 31, 2007 IP

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guerilla said: ↑

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Why would there be independent attacks on Paul by these people? I can understand Romney, but don't we have the support of some Minutemen already? Any chance we are one of those campaigns they might switch endorsements over to?

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We're probably getting attacked on secondary issues, or not having a strong stance of deporting all illegals.

The ALIPAC forums are pretty intense, just like the way they are going after candidates...

guerilla, Dec 31, 2007 IP

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What's your opinion on endorsements, do we stand a chance? And if not us, who?

omgitsfletch, Dec 31, 2007 IP

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Dr. Paul's main issue right now is elect-ability. A strong showing in Iowa and NH will bring all of the endorsements we need.

You can tell that ALIPAC for example isn't too crazy about Romney, and Hunter is an afterthought, but Paul is in the middle, neither with the perceived elect-ability of Romney or the total no-shot status of Hunter.

We have to wait and see. Iowa, NH, Michigan, Wyoming, Nevada, South Carolina and then Florida. It's all going to come down to how we do in all of those going into Super Tuesday.

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Huckabee jumps the shark

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