Allahpundit is Awesome!
Dean always spoke of Allahpundit…
Let me just say that he is awesome…
Here is a great post.
…Huck’s sleight of hand here is classically left-wing, equating the denial of benefits to which the recipient was never entitled with “punishment,” the confiscation of a right already held. He insists the scholarship program would have been a revenue-generator by turning tax-takers into taxpayers, in his formulation, but of course he doesn’t factor in the expense generated by the incentive it gives to further “tax-takers” to come to Arkansas and settle. The taxpayer/tax-taker thing’s a red herring anyway; this is obviously about charity for him, in which case it’s hard to discern why these scholarships should be limited by anything so mean as geography. If we’re going to spend American citizens’ money on scholarships for bright foreign students, why not just send money to Canada or Mexico for that purpose? The only difference between the talented 17-year-old illegal alien in Little Rock and the talented 17-year-old in Mexico City is that the parents of the former broke the law and got away with it. If Huck’s hung up on that promise to seek citizenship that he mentions as being one of the requirements, no problem: I’m sure the kid in Mexico City will be willing to promise that too in exchange for a free education.
Notice too how Huck falls back on his personal “I came up the hard way” drama once Mitt puts him on the defensive… Between that and his weaselly insistence that illegal alien kids without scholarships are being punished by America instead of by their parents’ decision to come here, you can see why Mitt calls him a liberal.
November 29th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Boy, if I keep rolling my eyes like this they’re gonna stick that way. Huckabee is like, intelligence “lite.” He got an education, at drama school maybe. Heavy on the drama, lite on reasoning. I can’t stomach too much of it.
November 29th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
I agree! I also thought Mitt’s response “Mike this isn’t your money was very appropriate” I have enjoyed listening to Huckabee and I have thought he could be a good GOP candidate, not after last night.
Mike looked like an extreme leader last night, he started to sound like the right version of Ron Paul, give our money to people who never took the time to come here legally, but at the same time he wants to get rid of the IRS. Now how is he going to do that. Not well thought out. All the more reason I want someone with logic, reason and experience in the White House
November 30th, 2007 at 1:20 am
I just found something else pretty awesome:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/11/29/huckabees_ready_for_the_fight.html
From the Washington Post:
Mike Huckabee is not backing off.
Flanked and supported by movie strongman Chuck Norris, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee told a roomful of Washington reporters Thursday that he will defend his effort to educate the children of illegal immigrants “even if it costs me the election.”
November 30th, 2007 at 1:25 am
Here is an awesome quote in the comments section in regards to above:
“All this Huckabee love is weird.
He is so principled! Please, purposely colluding with Tyson to fill it’s plants with illegal aliens instead of raising the wages of Americans is absolutely disgusting. Wait, let me guess they are doing jobs Americans won’t do? Then why is it that every business that gets raided is able to find Americans at the right price?”
November 30th, 2007 at 2:54 am
Yeah, after seeing Mitt’s family playing football, I just laughed when I read about how Huckabee was afraid to even watch football and instead took dance classes and drama classes. I’m sure he’s hoping people forget about this interview:
http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/arts/huckabee.htm