From Twitter 08-11-2010

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From Twitter 08-11-2010

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Unexpected sensibility on the right:

"When a kid comes to his country, and he's four years old and he had no choice in it -- his parents came illegally. He still, because he is in this state, it's the state's responsibility - in fact, it is the state's legal mandate - to make sure that child is in school. So let's say that kid goes to school. That kid is in our school from kindergarten through the 12th grade. He graduates as valedictorian because he's a smart kid and he works his rear end off and he becomes the valedictorian of the school. The question is: Is he better off going to college and becoming a neurosurgeon or a banker or whatever he might become, and becoming a taxpayer, and in the process having to apply for and achieve citizenship, or should we make him pick tomatoes? I think it's better if he goes to college and becomes a citizen."
--- Mike Huckabee, opposing the Republican tide to repeal the Fourteenth Amendment

Or, putting it another way- his words again- "You don't punish a child for the crimes a parent commits."

Considering how awful he is otherwise on immigration- his idea of immigration reform is to completely shut the door on the poor and non-white- and considering his many odious positions on other things... I'm not saying by any means that he's change, and I still think he's a fascist, but it's sad and shocking when MIKE HUCKABEE is the voice of sanity, even for one day, in any major political party.

Unexpected sensibility on the right:

"When a kid comes to his country, and he's four years old and he had no choice in it -- his parents came illegally. He still, because he is in this state, it's the state's responsibility - in fact, it is the state's legal mandate - to make sure that child is in school. So let's say that kid goes to school. That kid is in our school from kindergarten through the 12th grade. He graduates as valedictorian because he's a smart kid and he works his rear end off and he becomes the valedictorian of the school. The question is: Is he better off going to college and becoming a neurosurgeon or a banker or whatever he might become, and becoming a taxpayer, and in the process having to apply for and achieve citizenship, or should we make him pick tomatoes? I think it's better if he goes to college and becomes a citizen."
--- Mike Huckabee, opposing the Republican tide to repeal the Fourteenth Amendment

Or, putting it another way- his words again- "You don't punish a child for the crimes a parent commits."

Considering how awful he is otherwise on immigration- his idea of immigration reform is to completely shut the door on the poor and non-white- and considering his many odious positions on other things... I'm not saying by any means that he's change, and I still think he's a fascist, but it's sad and shocking when MIKE HUCKABEE is the voice of sanity, even for one day, in any major political party.