“We ought to have an immediate, very clear monitoring of our borders and particularly to make sure if there’s any unusual activity of Pakistanis coming into the country.”
Said Mike Huckabee here
in Florida last night. He repeated the theme today in Iowa:
“When I say single them out I am making the observation that we have more Pakistani illegals coming across our border than all other nationalities except those immediately south of the border,”
The fact that this isn't close to being true is less amazing than the sheer irrationality of his non-sequiturs.
“The fact is that the immigration issue is not so much about people coming to pick lettuce or make beds, it’s about someone coming with a shoulder-fired missile,”
Sure, it is, only it hasn't happened nor has it been made more likely by an assassination in Pakistan any more than the assassination of President Kennedy made it more likely for Texans to sneak into Mexico carrying rockets. The fact that the Huckster thinks Afghanistan is east of Pakistan and confuses migrant fruit pickers with Islamic extremists from Waziristan, is only a small part of the evidence that the man has no idea what he is talking about but has a strong feeling that vague mumblings in an ominous tone will allow him to latch on to the Xenophobic and Nativist gravy train. That's just what we need to represent the United States' interests in the world; a dishonest idiot who thinks Jesus wants him in power and will do the thinking for him. Come to think of it, that's what we have been saddled with for these last seven years of bad luck, and that's what we customarily vote for.
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Makes you want to run out and vote for him, eh?
His ignorance is actually perplexing. Your "dangerous idiot" label is an understatement.
Somebody wants to vote for him. The whole country is full of dangerous idiots.
Huckabee has picked up steam, but remember, that lunatic Pat Robertson won in Iowa in '88, I think. This country has it share of nutcases, but not enough to elect this guy to national office. Robertson's win caused my always-calm mother to remark that if he were elected, she'd move to Australia... LOL
Good point and Robertson is much worse - in fact I think he's a criminal.
Makes me wonder why we allow states like Iowa to have such an influence though - a national Primary seems so much more democratic.
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