Cornpone Populist Huckabee Bows to Cheap Labor Lobby

01/29/2015

Mike Huckabee, like Rand Paul, jukes wildly from Left to Right depending on the political needs of the movement. Huckabee is currently mired in a mini-scandal about whether he called female Foxnews hosts "trashy." [Huckabee Denies 'Trashing' Women of Foxnews, by Joe Kovacs, WND, January 28, 2015] Fresh from that political triumph, Huckabee has decided that as his presidential run would be defined by his image as a country populist, he better show the big donors that he'll be obedient where it matters.

… [M]ike Huckabee again defended his decision as Arkansas governor to grant the children of illegal immigrants in-state tuition at state universities.
But he also went a step further, hinting that those children should be put on a path to citizenship — a position more in line with Democrats and DREAMers than some of Huckabee’s more conservative Republican peers who are also weighing bids for the presidency …

The question about immigration was put to Huckabee by a member of the audience at the Richmond Convention Center, who asked Huckabee to clarify remarks he made Sunday on “Meet The Press.” “You don’t punish a child for something his parents did,” Huckabee said on that program, as he did again Tuesday.

[In Virginia, Huckabee defends DREAMer benefits, by Rebecca Berg, Washington Examiner, January 28, 2015]

We can already see the outlines of a future Huckabee run. He'll wave the Bible and pitch the woo at the rubes but where it matters he’s no different than Jeb Bush … and maybe quite a bit worse than Mitt Romney, who isn’t so great himself.

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