Thread: GHEEN quoted: Gilchrist Betrays Some Naivette

Gilchrist Of Minutemen Fame Betrays Some Naivette
Posted by Bernard
Tuesday December 11, 2007 at 3:50 pm

Jim Gilchrist, who founded the Minuteman Project, has come out formally for former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, a GOP contender for the party’s 2008 presidential nomination, reports the Washington Post.

Mike Huckabee, under fire for some of his immigration stands while governor of Arkansas, picked up an endorsement in Council Bluffs, Iowa, from the ultimate illegal immigration opponent: Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, the group that has roamed the border for the last several years operating effectively as an independent border patrol.

Here’s the money quote from the WaPo piece that leaves me shaking my head, both over Mike Huckabee’s unasbashed hucksterism and what appears now to be Jim Gilchrist’s impetuous naivette.

[i]“Frankly, Jim I’ve got to tell you there were times in the early days of the Minutemen I thought what are these guys doing, what are they about,â€

I did a triple take when I saw Jim Gilchrist beside Mr. Huckabee.

Luke 2

Does Mike Huckabee remind anyone of Jim Bakker?

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.â€