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Huckabee Advertises Beyond Iowa
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ABC News' Teddy Davis and Kevin Chupka Report: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, the Republican who sits atop the polls in Iowa, launched his first ad beyond the Hawkeye State on Monday.
"Better America" presents Huckabee's hard-scrabble childhood as preparing him to understand the plight of economically distressed families. The ad also touts his record expanding children's health insurance, increasing jobs and raising test scores.
"Better America" is airing not only in Iowa, where Huckabee has aired two other ads, but also in New Hampshire and South Carolina. This is his first foray beyond Iowa, a state where Huckabee has recently catapulted from obscurity to the front of the pack.
A second Huckabee ad launched Monday, "Secure Borders," calls for "no amnesty," bulding a border fence, and "doing it now."
"Secure Borders" will air in Iowa, a state where anti-illegal immigration passion runs high.
Huckabee discusses his surprise over the intensity of the immigration issue in the new issue of the New Yorker.
"It does appear to be the issue out here wherever we are," said Huckabee. "Nobody's asked about Iraq - doesn't ever come up. The first question out of the box, wherever I go - Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, Texas it doesn't matter - is immigration. It's just red hot, and I don't fully understand it."
Huckabee has been criticized by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, two Republican rivals, for backing in-state tuition for the children of illegal immigrants.
To help inoculate him from this criticism, Huckabee unveiled an immigration plan last week which would require illegal immigrants to register within 120 days and to leave the country before gaining legal status in the United States. Illegal immigrants who failed to comply with the registration requirement would be deported and barred from re-entry for 10 years.
Huckabee's proposal does not indicate for how long an illegal immigrant who complies with his registration requirement would have to stay outside of the United States before he or she is allowed to return to the U.S.
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The last part about Huckabee's new plan doesn't make sense. I don't understand it. He should speak clearer if he plans on being president. I support him, I juss don't get wat hes tryin to say.
Posted by: Hernandez | Dec 10, 2007 12:17:30 PM
What is more morally repugnant, Romney`s contracting with a company that he knew exploited illegal immigrant labor in the past or a guy like Giuliani that accepted costly security services for his mistress, paid for by the city tax payers? What New York City law or rule allows this? As Mitt would point out, it`s not your money Rudy, it`s the tax payer`s. Huckabee is right, if the illegals want an opportunity to become U S citizens, they have to first go back to their home countries and get in line. About time we found a candidate that refuses to pander to the illegal immigrants. It is only the party hacks and "businessmen" that want "a path to citizenship" for the illegals.
Posted by: Luke | Dec 10, 2007 4:02:24 PM
Most liberal media has not reported on Huckabee's sketchy record (Taxes, immigration, Pardoning criminals, etc...). I wonder why? Could it be that they know that he has no chance of defeating the democratic nominee. I hope that the people in Iowa and SC don't keep falling for this media push. Only Guliani or Romney have a chance of beating out Clinton or whoever the democratic nominee is . Huckabee is a nice guy, but he doesn't have the right rebublican principles nor the the organization to run a national campaign. Polls are one thing; getting people to pull the lever is another.
Posted by: will | Dec 10, 2007 5:10:09 PM
Huck brilliantly ties tax reform to immigration. Truly, under the FairTax, all illegals will be helping to support the country (at the highest tax rate because they will not receive the monthly prebate check that is designed to untax necessities - a monthly advance reimbursement based on family size: ~$200/mo for 1, ~500/mo for a family, etc.)
Posted by: Ian | Dec 12, 2007 3:42:11 AM
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