McCain uses Huckabees words against him in South Carolina

In a new ad in South Carolina John McCain defends the attacks on him by Mike Huckabee with Quotes from none other than Mike Huckabee.

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Fred Thompson lay out the case against Mike Huckabee

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When Huckabee is asked about his record all he can do is make personal attacks

In Thursday's Presidential Debate Governor Mike Huckabee's record as Governor was exposed by Sen. Fred Thompson. Instead of addressing the concerns that were raised about his Conservative record Huckabee could only respond by saying, "I think Fred needs some Metamucil, I think it would help a lot. He was in a bad mood last night."


Wrong again, Gov. Huckabee what happened is that you were exposed as the liberal that you are. You raised taxes as Governor, you put illegal immigrants ahead of Americans, and have joined the democrats in the church of bush hate. It is not being in a bad mood to show the true Mike Huckabee. Your record should be exposed because the more that comes out the worse you look. Just because you are a baptist minister does not make you a conservative.

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Fred Thompson's message to Iowa Voters

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Huckabee lied about theology degree

Mike Huckabee claimed to CBN,

"I'm as strong on terror as anybody. In fact I think I'm stronger than most
people because I truly understand the nature of the war that we are in with
Islamofascism. These are people that want to kill us. It's a theocratic war. And
I don't know if anybody fully understands that. I'm the only guy on that stage
with a theology degree. I think I understand it really well."

The problem with that is Huckabee lied. He does not have a theology degree. To make things worse he gave this answer to it being pointed out,

I have a bachelor of arts in religion and a minor in communications in my
undergraduate work. And then I have 46 hours on a master's degree at
Southwestern Theology Seminary. So, my degree as a theological degree is at the
college level and then 46 hours toward a masters -- three years of study of New
Testament Greek, and then the rest of it, all in Seminary was theological
studies, but my degree was actually in religion."

Huckabee has now lied about his Education, Immigration, and Tax Policy what other lies does he not want us to know about.

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Huckabee a "Disaster" on Immigration

The Washington Times is running a piece about how Immigration groups feel about Mike Huckabee,

"He was an absolute disaster on immigration as governor," said Roy Beck,
president of NumbersUSA, a group that played a major role in rallying the phone
calls that helped defeat this year's Senate immigration bill. "Every time there
was any enforcement in his state, he took the side of the illegal
aliens."

Finally someone has stood up and called Huckabee on this point. While most Republican Candidates have taken strong views on Immigration Governor Huckabee has treated the issue with mostly fluff. He actually ran an ad in Iowa that said that his Immigration plan was "Chuck Norris." Governor Huckabee has risen in the polls while his record has remained rather unscruitinized. Huckabee was horrible on the issues of Immigration, Taxes, and Ethics while Governor of Arkansas. His administration defended Illegal Immigrants while trying to get them a tuition discount for college educations. The result of his time in office was a net increase in taxes. He also has many ethic complaints filed against him during the time he was Governor.

Mike Huckabee's record is not what he would want you to believe. It is easy to get glossed over when he is fed softball questions in the CNN debate that focused on the Bible and related issues. It is not difficult to give funny one-liners in thirty second debate responses it is much more difficult to lead. When you look at how Former Governor Mike Huckabee leads you realize he lacks the conservative principles that a Republican Nominee should have.

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Giuliani billed taxpayers to have affair

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani apparently cost taxpayers several tens of thousands of dollars during the is rein as Mayor of New York to carry on his affair with his then mistress now wife. Politico ran the story saying,

The documents, obtained by Politico under New York’s Freedom of Information
Law, show that the mayoral costs had nothing to do with the functions of the
little-known city offices that defrayed his tabs, including agencies responsible
for regulating loft apartments, aiding the disabled and providing lawyers for
indigent defendants. At the time, the mayor’s office refused to explain the
accounting to city auditors, citing “security.”
The Hamptons visits resulted in hotel, gas and other costs for Giuliani’s New York Police Department security detail.

Just the latest sign of corruption from Rudy. He is focused on only one thing, himself. He will say and do anything to be elected. Apparently once he gets elected he does not care much about what his personal endeavors cost the people who elected him.

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Fred Thompson responds to Sanctuary City in Iowa and has mailer out in Iowa

MSNBC's First Read is detailing Fred Thompson's first Mailer and how he is responding to Iowa's Santuary City in De Moines.

The mailer contains the following text

"What if…" there was a candidate who had a 100 percent pro-life voting record, a
consistent plan to secure the borders and a history of fighting to keep
government spending under control, "Would it make you believe again?"

Beneath that question, at the center of the red, white and blue page,
big letters read: "Don't settle, don't compromise, don't lose faith. You can
believe in Fred Thompson!"

When asked about the idea of a Sanctuary City in De Moines Thompson responded with taking a shot at two of the other cantidates Rudy and Huckabee.

"I don't believe, at the end of the day, Des Moines wants to follow the pattern
of New York City or Little Rock, Arkansas. I think that they will reject
becoming a sanctuary city or anything close to that," Thompson said

Fred Thompson has remained committed to his beliefs throughout this campaign it looks like he is shifting into high gear now. He is the only consistent conservative in this race and as people get closer to actually voting they should start to rally around someone they can actually trust not someone who will say anything to get elected or attempt to buy the election with his own money.

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Fred Thompson on Personal Values

MSNBC's First Read has a great article about Fred Thompson talking to Social Conservatives in Florida. This is a great look at the real Fred Thompson not the thirty second look or the media characterized version of him. Somewhere in the politics of the Presidency we have lost the value of a real person talking to people and letting them know how they really feel, not just polls well and looks good in a paticular political cycle.

Link to Article

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Harvard says what most knew but the left denies; Media favors Dems and condemns Republicans

A Harvard study has found that not only does the media favor Democrats they give them more coverage. More news stories are run about Democrats then Republicans and the coverage that Republicans do get is more negative that that of the Democrats. This should allow the focus to come off of what Fox News does. If the Republicans created their own news channel it must have been because the rest lie to the masses. Harvard is hardly a conservative institution so this should be eye opening for some. The breakdown is avaliable HERE.

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Rudy apparently make deal with devil to support Red Sox; What is the devil going to do make him the Republican Nominee, God forbid!

The New York Daily News today is reporting today that when asked in July if he could ever root for the Red Sox, "He went on to say he had "great respect" for true Red Sox fans, but as for becoming a Red Sox cheerleader in a Devil's bargain, "Probably that's a deal I could not make," he said." This comment came after being asked the question, "If the Devil said you can be President if you become a Red Sox fan, would you do it?" So has a deal been cut?

Rudy also had this to say, "I'm a Yankee fan," Giuliani replied then. "I always believe it's a sign of my being straight with people, about not wanting to fool them, that I was one of the first mayors to be willing to say I was a Yankee fan."

So it now appears that it is ok for Rudy to "fool people" and he so wants to be President that he may really have cut a deal with the devil. There is a long list of reasons why Rudy is wrong for the Republican Party as well as wrong for America. This is just the latest sign of the ultimate poltical pandering that he will use to get a shot at the Presidency but like always I guess the Devil is in the details.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/10/25/2007-10-25_in_july_rudy_giuliani_swore_he_would_nev-2.html

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Fred Thompson Unveils Immigration Plan

Fred Thompson today unveiled his Immigration and Border Security Plan. This plan is a common sense approach to fixing the problems we are facing. Oddly enough it was released even while Congress continues to force Amnesty on us by bringing the Dream Act up again and again.



Border Security and Immigration Reform Plan
In the post-9/11 world, immigration is much more of a national security issue. A government that cannot secure its borders and determine who may enter and who may not, fails in a fundamental responsibility. As we take steps to secure our borders and enforce our laws, we must also ensure that our immigration laws and policies advance our national interests in a variety of areas, and that the immigration process itself is as fair, efficient, and effective as possible.



Securing the Border and Enforcing the Law

A fundamental responsibility of the federal government is to secure the nation's borders and enforce the law. The following policies and initiatives will put the nation on a path to success:

No Amnesty. Do not provide legal status to illegal aliens. Amnesty undermines U.S. law and policy, rewards bad behavior, and is unfair to the millions of immigrants who follow the law and are awaiting legal entry into the United States. In some cases, those law-abiding and aspiring immigrants have been waiting for several years.


Attrition through Enforcement. Reduce the number of illegal aliens through increased enforcement against unauthorized alien workers and their employers. Without illegal employment opportunities available, fewer illegal aliens will attempt to enter the country, and many of those illegally in the country now likely will return home. Self-deportation can also be maximized by stepping up the enforcement levels of other existing immigration laws. This course of action offers a reasonable alternative to the false choices currently proposed to deal with the 12 million or more aliens already in the U.S. illegally: either arrest and deport them all, or give them all amnesty. Attrition through enforcement is a more reasonable and achievable solution, but this approach requires additional resources for enforcement and border security:


Doubling ICE agents handling interior enforcement, increasing the Border Patrol to at least 25,000 agents, and increasing detention space to incarcerate illegal aliens we arrest rather than letting them go with a promise to show up later for legal proceedings against them.


Adding resources for the Department of Justice to prosecute alien smugglers, people involved in trafficking in false identification documents, and previously deported felons.


Maximizing efforts to prosecute and convict members of criminal alien gangs, such as MS-13 and affiliated gangs. These gangs have brought unusual levels of violence to more than 30 U.S. states and have also become very active in drug-smuggling, gun-smuggling, and alien-smuggling.


Implementing fully and making greater use of the expedited removal process already allowed under federal law.


Enabling the Social Security Administration to share relevant information with immigration and law enforcement personnel in a manner that will support effective interior enforcement efforts.


Enforce Existing Federal Laws. Enforce the laws Congress has already enacted to prevent illegal aliens from unlawfully benefiting from their presence in the country:


End Sanctuary Cities by cutting off discretionary federal grant funds as appropriate to any community that, by law, ordinance, executive order, or other formal policy directs its public officials not to comply with the provisions of 8 USC 1373 and 8 USC 1644, which prohibit any state or local government from restricting in any way communications with the Department of Homeland Security regarding the immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of an alien in the United States.


Deny discretionary Federal education grants as appropriate to public universities that violate federal law by offering in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens without also offering identical benefits to United States citizens, regardless of whether or not they live in the state, as required by 8 USC 1623.


Deny discretionary Federal grants as appropriate to states and local governments that violate federal law by offering public benefits to illegal aliens, as prohibited by 8 USC 1621(a).


Reduce the Jobs Incentive. Ensure employee verification by requiring that all U.S. employers use the Department of Homeland Security's electronic database (the E-Verify system) to confirm that a prospective employee is authorized to work in the U.S. Now that the technology is proven, provide sufficient resources to make the system as thorough, fast, accurate, and easy-to-use as possible.


Bolster Border Security. Finish building the 854-mile wall along the border by 2010 as required by 8 USC 1103. Extend the wall beyond that as appropriate and deploy new technologies and additional resources to enhance detection and rapid apprehension along our borders by 2012.


Increased Prosecution. Deploy the additional assets outlined above to prosecute alien smugglers ("coyotes"), alien gang members, previously deported felons, and aliens who have repeatedly violated our immigration laws much more vigorously.


Rigorous Entry/Exit Tracking. Complete the implementation of a system to track visa entrants and exits, as has been required by federal law for more than ten years, and connect it to the FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC), in order to curb visa overstays and permit more effective enforcement.
Improving the Legal Immigration Process
The United States is a nation of immigrants. We must continue to welcome immigrants and foreign workers who come to our country legally, giving priority to those who can advance the nation's interests and common good. Immigrants and foreign workers who play by the rules need to be rewarded with faster and less burdensome service, not delays that last years. Advancing the following initiatives will require close cooperation between all levels of government, the business community, and concerned citizens:

Maximize Program Efficiency. Reduce the backlogs and streamline the process for immigrants and employers who seek to follow the law. Also, simplify and expedite the application processes for temporary visas. This can be accomplished by hiring more personnel at Citizenship and Immigration Services and the FBI. Caps for any category of temporary work visa would be increased as appropriate, if it could be demonstrated that there are no Americans capable and willing to do the jobs.


Enhanced Reporting. Improve reporting to the government by businesses that rely on temporary workers so that the government can track whether the visa holder remains employed.


Modernize Immigration Law/Policy. Change the nature of our legal immigration system to welcome immigrants who can be economic contributors to our country, are willing to learn the English language, and want to assimilate.


Reduce the scope of chain migration by giving family preference in the allocation of lawful permanent resident status only to spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens, and no one else (no siblings, no parents, no adult children, etc.).


Eliminate the diversity visa lottery.
English As Official Language. Make English the official language of the United States to promote assimilation and legal immigrants' success, and require English proficiency in order for any foreign person to be granted lawful permanent resident status.


Freedom from Political Oppression. Preserve U.S. laws and policies to ensure that the United States remains a beacon and a haven for persons fleeing political oppression, while assuring appropriate admission standards are maintained.


Service to Country. Place those foreign persons who are lawfully present in the country and who serve honorably in the Armed Forces of the United States on a faster, surer track to U.S. citizenship.

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