Minutemen Endorse Huckabee

[Hobbit]

Or at least the founder does.


The founder of the Minuteman Project, the anti-illegal immigrant group, endorsed Republican Mike Huckabee on Tuesday, while Huckabee dismissed a presidential rival's immigration criticism as the work of "the tattletale in the third grade."

http://newsmax.com/insidecover/Huckabee_Gets_Minuteman/2007/12/11/56108.html

[avatar4321]

i must say i was quite surprised on this endorsement. Rush was saying earlier that everyone was surprised on it. Let's face it Immigration isnt Huckabee's strongest issue. My guess is he figures Huckabee will win and wants to be on the nominees good side.

[theHawk]

Yea thats baloney, Trancredo, Hunter, and even Fred are tougher on immigration than he is.

[Pale Rider]

Yea thats baloney, Trancredo, Hunter, and even Fred are tougher on immigration than he is.

Even Ron Paul.

This endorsement is a shame.

[actsnoblemartin]

its the founder, not the entire or the actual minutemen, just the founder.


Even Ron Paul.

This endorsement is a shame.

[Pale Rider]

its the founder, not the entire or the actual minutemen, just the founder.

Is he still an acting Minute Man? If he isn't speaking on behalf of all Minute Men, then I would expect some sort of statement from the rest of them should be forth coming.

[actsnoblemartin]

I concur fully with Chris Simcox' statement below. Forward this to all Americans so people don't get confused and think that "the Minutemen" are all endorsing Huckabee. We are definitely not. Personally I don't know one single Minuteman (besides Gilchrist) who favors Huckabee. SDMM has published a simple rating of the candidates on our website which is also attached to this email. This is just our general consensus of how the candidates stand on securing America. Everyone must conduct their own research and vote for the best candidate.




Is he still an acting Minute Man? If he isn't speaking on behalf of all Minute Men, then I would expect some sort of statement from the rest of them should be forth coming.

[actsnoblemartin]

No National Minuteman Group has endorsed Mike Huckabee.



One individual Minuteman has personally endorsed him.



For the sake of clarity, it is important to note that the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC), the nation's largest Minuteman organization, is a 501(C)4 non-profit organization and cannot and does not endorse any candidate for public office. MCDC is not associated with Mr. Jim Gilchrist, who today endorsed Mike Huckabee for president.

Jim Gilchrist’s erstwhile Minuteman Project is itself an organization which by its own representations as a non-profit civic group, cannot legally endorse candidates. It does not have any volunteers who observe illegal border activity. It has no border fence building projects. Jim Gilchrist here speaks only for Jim Gilchrist, he does not speak for the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, nor is he nationally representative of most patriots in the "Minuteman movement" – who under no circumstances could ignore the failed record nor endorse the duplicitous “plan” recently rolled out by candidate Mike Huckabee. The national media needs to recognize that Jim Gilchrist’s endorsement is his own personal statement, nothing more.

The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps emphasizes policy dealing with national border security. The only "plan" to ensure border security that is acceptable to our constituency would be a candidate policy statement declaring that his first act as President will be to hold a press conference and announce to the American people an executive order to immediately deploy and fund 30,000 National Guard personnel to the U.S. Borders (25,000 to the southern border and 5,000 to the northern border) to complement a massive increase in U.S. Border Patrol Agent field personnel, and a bilateral effort to secure our frontiers, smash the drug cartels, shut down the human smugglers and protect the public safety of the citizens who reside along the borders on both sides of our national boundaries.

Unlike this last-minute opportunism attempted by Huckabee, many of the other GOP presidential candidates have actually helped push the issue of national border security forward for some time. Tom Tancredo’s many years of hard work on the border crisis and illegal immigration issues have all the candidates striving to sound like him. Duncan Hunter can take personal credit for getting the highly effective San Diego border fence built. Ron Paul has been to the border with us first hand and aggressively pushed positive border legislation. Alan Keyes has done more than anyone to support the organizational development of MCDC, and personally participated in the Minuteman Border Fence Groundbreaking – advancing a citizen’s construction effort which has forced Congress to finally get the Feds building physical border fence.



Only one Minuteman group is conducting regular multi-state border security efforts, building fence and aggressively monitoring Washington DC : Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. We would like to extend an invitation to all the presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat, to come to the border and see what is really happening on our nation’s frontier. Not to take the safe little government photo-op helicopter ride, but see the lay-up sites full of trash and debris. See the rape trees. See the violent crime in the border towns. Walk on the pathways of destroyed environmental terrain trampled by tens of thousands of invading foreign migrants. See what the American elites’ support of broken borders, unfettered illegal immigration and sanctuary cities is doing to our fellow Americans who live on our borderlands, and how these failed policies imperil our nation’s safety, security and prosperity.

Chris Simcox

[Pale Rider]

I concur fully with Chris Simcox' statement below. Forward this to all Americans so people don't get confused and think that "the Minutemen" are all endorsing Huckabee. We are definitely not. Personally I don't know one single Minuteman (besides Gilchrist) who favors Huckabee. SDMM has published a simple rating of the candidates on our website which is also attached to this email. This is just our general consensus of how the candidates stand on securing America. Everyone must conduct their own research and vote for the best candidate.

There ya go. So that leaves everybody still scratching their head wondering why Gilchrist endorses Huckabee... :dunno:

[stephanie]

The ole Huckster must of offered him something..What a sell out..