Huckabee Responds to Bhutto: Beware Scary Brown People

By Eric on December 28, 2007

Mike Huckabee issued his response today to Benazir Bhutto’s assassination: watch out for scary brown people.

“We ought to have an immediate, very clear monitoring of our borders and particularly to make sure if there’s any unusal [sic] 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.

Something about the phrasing of that first sentence keeps bugging me. It almost reads as if “Pakistanis coming into the country” is the unusual activity that we need to be worried about. Well, I guess he wouldn’t be a Republican without the fearmongering.

John McCain, on the other hand, has been using Bhutto’s death to play up his own foreign policy credentials. What does the Huckster have to say about that?

“This is not a time for us to play political games with (Bhutto’s death). It’s a time to express our outrage as well as our sadness and sympathy for the people of Pakistan and for the rest of the world,” Huckabee told reporters.

So let me get this straight: we shouldn’t be playing political games with someone’s death… unless the game is immigration and Mike Huckabee is the one playing. Wow. I guess he wouldn’t be a Republican without the hypocrisy either.

Tags: 2008, Benazir Bhutto, John McCain, Mike Huckabee

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