Mike Huckabee

Sanctimonious illegal immigration supporter Mike Huckabee will create an exploratory committee for a possible presidential run. Like "compassionate conservative" Bush, he manages to combine the bad side of "conservatism" with the bad side of "liberalism", mixing together social conservatism, corporatism, and support for "multiculturalism" and tying it together under a sanctimonious bow:

"My brand of conservatism is not an angry hostile brand. It's one that says 'conservative' means we want to conserve the best of our culture, society, principles and values and pass them on."... (read more)

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...the nation is being given a chance to make up for past racism by the way it handles the influx of Hispanics.

Huckabee, a Republican who is considering a run for president in 2008, said Arkansas has made progress on racial justice and has a fresh opportunity to do the right thing in the way it welcomes the growing Hispanic population.

"One of the great challenges facing us is that we do not commit the same mistakes with our growing Hispanic population that we did with African Americans 150 years ago and beyond. We're still paying the price for the pathetic manner in which this country handled that," Huckabee said at a meeting of the Political Animals Club in Little Rock. The club meets monthly to hear from political figures and experts.... (read more)

Position: governor of Arkansas Party: Republican DOB: August 24, 1955... (read more)