Illegal immigration hypocrisy

Over on Shooting the Messengers Fits has posted Michelle Malkin's article commenting on the bizarre endorsement by Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, of Elmer Gantry's presidential bid. You can read the whole thing with his comments by clicking the link but here are a few money quotes:

. . . Huckabee has downright contempt for his new bedfellows of convenience. Just two years ago, he appeared before the open-borders Hispanic group, The League of United Latin American Citizens, preaching an open-door policy. He also criticized state legislation requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and enhanced reporting of illegal aliens as un-Christian, un-American and anti-life - not to mention - inflammatory," "race-baiting" and "demagoguery."

Just last year, Huckabee lambasted opponents of the bipartisan amnesty bill (which would've given a mass pardon to illegals) as "driven by racism or nativism." In his book released earlier this year, he called strict immigration enforcement (the kind he now supports) "sheer folly." He invited Mexico's government to establish a consulate in Arkansas so that its officials could start dispensing security-undermining "matricula consular" ID cards to illegals for banking and employment purposes.

Malkin also points out that some of the other Republican candidates are hypocrites on the issue of illegal immigration:

In a Washington Examiner interview, Giuliani now says he really, truly would have deported 400,000 illegal aliens in New York if he could have. Never mind that small matter of the lawsuit he brought against the feds to block them from enforcing immigration laws. Never mind that he was openly inviting illegal aliens into his open-borders safe harbors.

She nails Julie Annie. He was dead set in favor of illegal immigration when he was mayor of NYC and now he's trying to have his cake and eat it too. Crazy John McCain is also trying to sing that tune, but for him it's even harder:

Bringing up the false-convert rear is Sen. John McCain. Earlier this year, he was the most vocal critic of grass-roots conservatives who mobilized against the amnesty bill. He now says he has learned his lesson and supports securing the border. He has learned nothing.

During the amnesty-bill debacle, he called Rush Limbaugh a "nativist." Over the weekend, he repeated such contemptuous "straight talk" at the Univision debate by assailing what he called anti-Hispanic rhetoric. In an interview with The New Yorker, he irritatedly dismissed immigration concerns in Iowa as marginal and irrational - just a bunch of "senior citizens" in Iowa caught up in the "emotion" of a cultural assault."

Yes John the American culture is under assault and those of us who love the nation which our Founders left to us are emotional about it. Why aren't you?