Via Andrew, here’s Huckabee on Benazir Bhutto’s murder:
“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. We just need to be very, very thorough in looking at every aspect of our own security internally because, again, we live in a very, very dangerous time,” Huckabee said during a news conference Thursday night in West Des Moines.
Over Christmas lunch a friend warned me not to be quite so dismissive of Huckabee. He’s not just a hick I was told. And perhaps he isn’t: this answer cannily ties security (whatever that is) to immigration after all, shoring up Huckabee’s weakness on that front. Personally I find the suggestion that you have to choose between security and immigrants to be pretty distasteful but then again I’m an elitist, east-coast inhabiting foreigner. So I would, wouldn’t I?
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