Gallup: Huckabee leading a broad GOP pack

I will take the bait also…I have been a Huckabee supporter since 2007 before he won the IA primary.

To answer some of your allegations against Huckabee:

Amnesty:
Huckabee believes that a fence should be built before we do anything else about the illegal immigrants. Businessess should be fined for hiring them. He does not go along with amnesty. (spoken in an interview in 2011).
Yes, Huckabee supported children of illegal immigrants being eligible for college scholarships with the following stipulations:

They must have been in America from a very young age. They shouldn’t be punished for their parents choices.
They must be at the top of their class in HS.
They must be in the process of getting their citizenship in America to qualify.

Huckabee believes that these students will be more productive citizens with a college education where they would get a job and pay taxes, rather than pick tomotoes in a field for the rest of their lives and pay no taxes.

Amnesty for prisoners:
He looked at every single file of the convicts in the Arkansas prisons for his whole term as Gov. (10 1/2 yrs.). During this period of time, he noticed that the judges in Arkansas were giving the Blacks a much longer sentence than they gave the white prisoner who had committed the same offenses.

The Judge and Parole Board asked Huckabee to give clemency to Clemmons,16 yrs. old at the time, who was given a sentence of 104 years for several felonies (no killing, rape or using a gun was involved in these offenses). Not even criminals who had murdered had been given that long of a sentence. He proceeded to fill out paperwork which was given to other official, including the prosecutor, to state whether they had objections to this clemency. Nobody sent back any objections to Clemmons having the sentence reduced. Huckabee signed the clemency which reduced the sentence to 46 years. The Parole Board made the decision to let Clemmons out. Within three weeks, Clemmons broke his parole and was back in prison. The prosecutor failed to do the paperwork to keep him there, so Clemmons was released. It had nothing to do with Huckabee.

For those who say Huckabee released 1,044 prisoners, here is the whole truth. Huckabee had 768 people who requested that he give them a pardon because they were on welfare and couldn’t get a job. These people had already served their full sentences. Gov. Huckabee figured it was better for these people to get a pardon, get a job and get off of welfare and save the state the money for welfare. So, he only released, pardoned, or gave clemency to 276 prisoners during his term. As I said there was some racism in Arkansas and Huckabee felt like the Black community did not deserve to serve a much longer sentence than the white people did.

VFT on March 25, 2011 at 9:44 PM

MiConservative,

Thanks for asking me that question. I live in Indiana and I thought all states ban smoking in businessess, don’t they? Then why would Huckabee’s ban on smoking in business be a nanny state issue? This regulation is to safeguard everybody’s health.

As far as the nutrition issue:

Mike Huckabee got diabetes from being overweight and did lose over 100 pounds. He was raised in the South and saw that by eating such unhealthy foods as a child it led to his choices to eat as an adult and to obesity. So when Michelle Obama wanted to have an initiative to put healthy foods in “schools” for children to have some opportunity to eat healthy, even if their parents didn’t feed them healthy food at home, Huckabee agreed with this. He was not in favor of mandating adults by the government on what they eat. Michelle’s program was for the children in schools only. Since the Government already gave money to schools, they wanted to help children avoid obesity which, of course, leads to many health problems.

Because of what Huckabee experienced as a child, he knew that children needed to have some experience as a child to eat healthy. As you know, if we parents feed our children healthy foods, they will probably continue to eat healthy as adults. The same goes for bad foods too..children will eat bad foods as adults. I don’t consider this a nanny state issue either because we are talking about the health and welfare of all children in the country. I read many comments from the Dems. about how Republicans don’t care about helping our children to be exposed to healthy food, they just want to oppose anything the Dems want. Sometimes,the Democrats do have a good idea too.

VFT on March 25, 2011 at 11:12 PM

Kermit,

In case you haven’t noticed Mike Huckabee does support some things that may not be as popular. He does that because he is a leader, not a follower. He doesn’t look to see what the polls say to make a decision.

Remember that Huckabee gave either pardons or clenencies to 276 convicts in prisons in Arkansas. Do you think that was a smart thing to do if he wanted to run for President? No, but he believed it was the right thing to do for the people in Arkansas. Believe me I would rather have a President who cares about all of the people in the U.S. than a President who cares more about what the “world” thinks.

Mike Huckabee wants the U.N out of America. He thinks that the other countries should be paying for them. He didn’t say America get out of the U.N. but they be stationed in another country so we can save all the money we spend on the U.N. that treats us horribly. That’s not a popular position, but Huckabee believes it’s the right thing to do.

Huckabee is not like Obama or Romney for that matter, he is a leader and makes the difficult decisions necessary.

When Huckabee governed Arkansas during the Katrina tornado, he told the people in his office, to forget about the red tape, and right away help all the people who needed somewhere to stay coming from Louisiana. He said Arkansas should give them a place to stay and food to eat. He made a decision quickly to help them…that’s a leader.

VFT on March 25, 2011 at 11:36 PM

Swamp_Yankee,

When Mike Huckabee made that comment it was about the Cap and Trade bill that Bush was trying to get through the Senate in 2007, not the Cap and Trade bill that the Democrats have been trying to push through recently. BTW, that Cap and Trade bill by Bush was for voluntary Cap and Trade, not mandatory like the Dems want.

If you would have listened to Huckabee’s show on Fox News you would have heard his clarification of this mistake about Kenya. Huckabee didn’t say this on his show, but the interview was during Huckabee’s book tour. This interview was about the 42nd interview he had that day, and he was exhausted. Huckabee is NOT a birther and has never been a birther. He stated that Obama spent part of his childhood in “Kenya”. On his show, Huckabee said he misspoke, he meant to say “Indonesia” which Huckabee had already wrote in his book that Obama spent some time growing up in “Indonesia”, so he knew what the right answer was. After Huckabee mentioned “Kenya” he went on with that train of thought because Obama’s father and grandfather were raised in “Kenya”. He has been very respectful of Pres. Obama and does not criticize him about personal issues, just his policies. Huckabee would have known that this interviewer would come out with the correct information about Obama, so he would not have deliberately said something that was so easily proven. He’s not stupid.

Huckabee does not back amnesty, he said he thinks that we ought to build a fence, and fine companies who hire illegals before we can talk about what to do with the illegals we have in our country.

I hope I have clarified some of the misinformation about these topics.

VFT on March 28, 2011 at 3:28 AM

miConservative,

Of course it is the role of parents to determine what foods their children eat, but, as you know there are lots of parents that don’t have the money or didn’t grow up eating healthy foods themselves, so they continue the cycle of giving bad food to their children. Because the government already gives funds to schools in America for food programs, I’m sure Michelle Obama figured they would give healthy foods so these children that don’t eat healty at home would at least get the opportunity at school.

Mike Huckabee does NOT agree with the government telling us adults what to eat, or when to go to bed. I don’t believe he is a Nanny Stater at all. I agree with the premise of people who don’t smoke not having to be around second hand smoke in the workplace…this can cause cancer even for non-smokers. As I stated above, we have had that law in Indiana for several years, so I assumed most states did the same. But you know even if all of the states don’t have that ban, they will in the near future. Mike Huckabee had Ann Coulter on his show and asked her why she spread this lie around. She, like you, believed Huckabee said this for all of our country, but he said he only wanted it for Arkansas.

VFT on March 28, 2011 at 3:53 AM

Mike Huckabee did not push his religion on the people of Arkansas when he was Governor and won’t do that as President either. That doesn’t mean he won’t work hard for pro-life and make sure our country is not giving the taxpayers money to pay for abortion.

VFT on March 28, 2011 at 4:04 AM

I always read the comments on Hot Air, but most of you are so mean and say terrible things (most are not true) against Huckabee, I just never responded. But someone asked that a Huckabee supporter respond, so I did.

It’s not an accident that in the polls, most of Palin’s supporters will vote for Huckabee if she doesn’t run. I have stated on here a long time ago, that Huckabee and Palin are very similar. I hope the people on Hot Air will take another look at Mike Huckabee because he is able to get the votes from the Republicans/Conservatives and the Independents which we have to have to win in the general election. Give Huckabee a chance…go on Hucksarmy and ask your questions about him and get answers that are true, not just half true from the MSM or what the Club for Growth put out in 2008.

VFT on March 28, 2011 at 2:35 PM

Gekkobear,

In case you hadn’t noticed, Mike Huckabee is a social conservative which means he believes in the traditional belief of one man and one woman like we have had it for hundreds of years. Once you start down the path of gay marriage, what’s to stop the Mormons who do believe in multiple marriages from saying, “Hey we aren’t getting our civil rights either”? That could also start other groups from wanting their civil rights! You are obviously not a Christian who reads the Bible or you would know that God created the earth and all of the worlds. There have been lots of scientists in the last 20 years who are now doubting evolution too. If you watched the movie, “Expelled”, Ben Stein went around the world and interviewed scientists. One of the most well known scientist said that aliens probably came to earth and that’s where man came from. Ben Stein asked him, “Who made the aliens”? The scientist admitted, he didn’t know.

Would you rather have Obamacare which has the Government making all the decisions for you…especially at the end of your life in whether it’s worth you having surgery or not? Mike Huckabee knows that if more people would get doctors to stress preventative care, more illnesses would be caught early which would save lots of money and increase the chances for people to survive bad illnesses. For example, my spouse and I get Colon checks every five years as preventative medicine for cancer growing in the colon and catching it early and removing it.

If you would have looked at one of my posts above, I spoke in detail about Mike Huckabee’s comment on Cap and Trade. He was speaking about the bill that Bush wanted in 2007 which was for “voluntary” Cap and Trade, not what the Dems want now.

Mike Huckabee does not believe in amnesty for illegal immigrants. He wants a fence built and companies to pay a fine before any other decision is made about immigration.

VFT on March 30, 2011 at 1:12 AM