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John drinks the global warming Kool Aid.

Rating the candidates on immigration and energy independence.

Fred Thompson has gotten the illegal alien thing right from the start. Build the fence and enforce the law. As Thompson says there’s no need to “round up” the 12 million or so illegals already here because once you begin to enforce the law, thereby removing the incentive to come or stay here illegally, the illegals will deport themselves. With regard to energy independence Thompson again has it right. Develop our own resources to include domestic oil, nuclear and clean coal. He’s not buying into the global warming Kyoto BS either. On a scale of 1 to 10 Fred gets 9.9.

Mitt Romney is the next best bet on this issue. He’s got the immigration issue down and is probably best suited to chart a course to energy independence. Mitt gets a 9.8 because Fred’s my guy.

Next is Huckabee. He is a late convert to immigration reform and has gone the extra step of calling for the repeal of the anchor baby language in the Fourteenth Amendment. I’m against any such amendment before it is tested in court as to whether or not such language applies offspring of people who entered the country illegally. Who knows maybe the Supremes will have a lucid moment and say, “no I don’t think this applies to criminals.” Next, it may become a moot point if Thompson’s self deportation theory works. Huckabee thinks we need to be energy independent in 10 years and offer a huge cash prize for the first viable car to get 100 mpg. Since I called for the same thing, I have to give him credit. But he ruins that bit of brilliance buy saying something about a duty to God to reduce global warming. The idea of becoming energy independent was to stop sending US dollars to the Middle East where they are used to kill us. Huck gets a 5.

Last is John they are all God’s children McCain. Hey John, let’s just say you’re right, they’re all God’s children. Do we just open the borders to any uneducated low skill, criminally intent person who wants to wonder in? Castro emptied his jails and sailed his criminals to Florida. That worked out well for everyone. How is your idea any different? Then he’s gotten the harebrained idea that by paying a fine the illegals aren’t being offered an amnesty. He’s right. They are being offered - at a greatly reduced price - the most valuable commodity we possess – citizenship. And he’s selling it cheap - $5,000. Hey John if you want to sell US citizenship, why not start with the people waiting in line legally? Many would probably be willing to buy. Why start with the group whose first act in America was to break our laws? John, like Huck, has had an awakening though. Now he’s the Johnny come lately tough guy on immigration. I’m not buying it John. If the American people are dumb enough to elect you, you’ll give your amnesty and claim it was bi-partisan and the best we could do. Then, as pictured above, there’s John’s buying into the whole global warming hoax. He's probably more interested in achieving energy independence by making us all walk than finding more oil. John gets a -3.

Dems would be far worse on this issue than any of the Reps. We’d have open borders. Oil exploration and nuclear power would be all but banned and taxes on what energy remains would have us all peddling a bike to work.

Of the Dems, I suppose the Shrillda Beast would be the best. I say that only because she, like Bill, would be maniacally poll driven, thereby giving us – the people - at least chance to influence the action. Given that, she may be better on immigration than McCain.