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UGA is a winner on, off the football field
Okay, Bulldog N ation,
let’s all get a paper
bag and breath into
it very s-l-o-w-l-y.
Inhale. Exhale. Inhale.
Exhale.
Feel bet
ter? Good.
Now
turn off
the whine
machine,
and let’s
talk.
We need
to accept
the fact
that the
Dick Yarbrough
Columnist
yarb24oo@bellsouth.net
University of Georgia is not
playing for the BCS National
Football Championship
in January. Maybe we got
hosed, but the issue has been
settled and it isn’t going to
change.
Had we beaten the Evil
Genius and Tennessee dur
ing the regular season, we
Meet the GOP's border control cross-dressers
Every Democrat run
ning for president
thinks anti-illegal
immigration activists are all
racists and xenophobes. Do
we really need a Republican
nominee for president who
thinks
the same
way?
Breakout
GOP can
did a t e
Mike
Huckabee,
the soft
on-border
control
former
Michelle Malkin
Columnist
malkin@comcast.net
governor of Arkansas, scored
a jaw-dropping endorsement
Tuesday from Jim Gilchrist,
founder of the Minuteman
Project. Despite a long
gubernatorial record oppos
ing employer sanctions and
pushing tax-subsidized ille
gal alien education benefits,
Huckabee won Gilchrist’s
support by unveiling a last
minute, tough-sounding
homeland security plan.
Trouble is, Huckabee has
downright and longstanding
contempt for his new bedfel
lows of convenience.
Just two years ago,
Huckabee appeared before
the open-borders Hispanic
group, The League of United
Latin American Citizens,
preaching an open-door poli
cy. According to the Arkansas
News Bureau, Huckabee also
criticized state legislation
requiring proof of citizen
ship to register to vote and
enhanced reporting of illegal
aliens as un-Christian, un-
American, irresponsible and
anti-life - not to mention
“inflammatory,” “race-bait
ing” and “demagoguery.”
Just last year, Huckabee
lambasted opponents of the
bipartisan shamnesty bill
providing a mass pardon
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might be having a different
conversation right now, but
that didn’t happen. Besides,
the claims we make about
deserving a title shot could
be made by any number
of other schools, including
the one we will face in the
Sugar Bowl, the undefeated
University of Hawaii. As for
me, I have no way of know
ing who should be playing
in the championship game
because understanding the
screwy BCS system is akin
to deciphering Assyrian
hieroglyphics.
So, let’s get things in
perspective. First, going
to the Sugar Bowl in New
Orleans on New Year’s
Day isn’t exactly the worst
thing that ever happened
on God’s Green Earth. We
could be headed to the Pine
Beetle Infestation Dot Com
Bowl in East Boola-Boola,
Idaho, to do battle with the
to illegal aliens as “driven
by racism or nativism.” He
called strict immigration
enforcement - the kind he
now supports - “sheer folly”
in his campaign-timed book
released earlier this year.
He actively invited the
Mexican government to
establish a consulate in
Arkansas - giving its office
a $1 per year special office
space rate - so that its foreign
officials could start dispens
ing security-undermining
matricula consular ID cards
to illegal aliens for banking
and employment purposes.
And he’s not only for gov
ernment in-state illegal alien
discounts, he’s for expand
ing them far beyond what
the federal DREAM Act pro
posed. But now that he needs
to establish his border con
trol bona sides, Huckabee is
all honey.
It’s Gilchrist and those
who allow themselves to be
snowed by Huckabee’s cyni
cal conversion who’ll be sorry
and deep in apology debt,
I guarantee you. Huckabee
showed his true colors at the
Univision Spanish-language
debate over the weekend
when he pandered to the
crowd by lamenting “racial
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mighty Fresno Raisins, like
our friends over at the Sir
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Alignment Center on North
Avenue will be doing.
Second, we are playing one
of the most exciting teams
in the country, the Hawaii
Rainbow Warriors and their
run-and-shoot offense. It
should be a whale of a game.
And don’t give me the “we
have-nothing-to-gain-and-
everything-to-lose” malar
key. If we only play people
when we have something to
gain, we ought not to be
playing at all. Quality teams
don’t think that way, and
the Bulldogs are a quality
team.
Third, there is not going
to be a playoff in NCAA
Division 1-A (or whatever
they call it these days) in
our lifetime, so the best
way to ensure a slot in the
BCS championship game is
profiling” of immigrants -
while remaining silent about
catch-and-release policies
that fail to detain criminal
aliens who go on to commit
more heinous crimes because
politically correct politi
cians and police chiefs are
more concerned with being
accused of “racial profiling”
than protecting the public.
Huckabee isn’t the only
shameless border control
cross-dresser in the GOP
field, of course. Rudy “I sup
ported sanctuary policies
before I was against them,
but my sanctuary policy
wasn’t really a sanctuary
policy, anyway” Giuliani now
quotes “the advice of a great
man, Father Hesburgh, who
said, ‘We must close the
back door of illegal immigra
tion in order to preserve the
front door of legal immigra
tion.’”
In an interview with
Washington Examiner report
er and author Bill Sammon,
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
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to whip everybody on the
schedule. Sometimes, as the
Auburn people will tell you,
even that is not enough.
Remember, Auburn was
undefeated in 2004 and still
got snubbed by the BCS.
But most important
ly, remember why the
University of Georgia exists.
It is not to play football, even
though we do a pretty good
job of that. It is first and fore
most an educational institu
tion and a damned fine
one. If you want to expend
energy on something having
to do with the University of
Georgia, I recommend that
you forget being disrespect
ed by the BCS nabobs and
the talking heads on ESPN
and get excited about what
is happening academically in
Athens.
Maybe you haven’t
noticed, but it is getting hard
as the dickens to get into
immigration laws. Never
mind that he was openly
inviting illegal aliens into his
open-borders safe harbors.
Reports Sammon: “Some
of the hardest-working and
most productive people in
this city are undocumented
aliens,” the mayor said at a
1994 press conference. “If
you come here and you work
hard and you happen to be
in an undocumented status,
you’re one of the people who
we want in this city. You’re
somebody that we want to
protect, and we want you
to get out from under what
is often a life of being like
a fugitive, which is really
unfair.”
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
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UGA these days. The pri
vate schools in the state that
used to turn up their noses
at the University of Georgia
now have kids clamoring to
get into UGA and a lot
of them can’t. The SATs for
this year’s freshman class is
1282 and climbs every year.
The current GPA for the
freshman class is 3.67. This
is not your granddaddy’s
party school.
The university recent
ly announced two Rhodes
Scholars, the only public
university in the nation to
do so. The other schools
with two Rhodes Scholars
this year include Harvard,
Stanford, Princeton, St. Olaf
and Columbia. That’s pretty
good company for UGA to
be keeping. That makes 21
Rhodes Scholars for us, six
since 1996. By the way, our
two honorees are Deep J.
Shah ofDuluth and Katherine
border.
He has learned nothing.
During the shamnesty deba
cle, he called Rush Limbaugh
a “nativist”; over the week
end, he repeated such con
temptuous “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 con
cerns in lowa as marginal
and irrational - just a bunch
of “senior citizens” in lowa
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You should be every bit as
proud of them as you are
of Knowshon Moreno and
Matthew Stafford. They had
just as good a year.
So, Bulldog Nation, quit
grumping about the BCS.
There is always next year.
Take pride in the fact that
the University of Georgia
is a winner in the class
room and on the athletic
field. Not many institutions
can say that. Most of all, be
grateful that you don’t have
to head for the Pine Beetle
Infestation Dot Com Bowl
in East Boola-Boola, Idaho,
to face the mighty Fresno
Raisins. Now, that’s some
thing to really whine about.
You can reach
Dick Yarbrough at
yarb24oo@bellsouth.net, P.O.
Box 725373, Atlanta, Georgia
31139, or website: www.dick
yarbrough.com.
caught up in the “emotion”
of a cultural assault.
Bad enough that the
Democrat candidates are still
stuck in a 9/10 mentality on
the nexus between immigra
tion and national security.
The question for conserva
tives is: Would a Republican
immigration drag queen be
any better - or worse?
Michelle Malkin is
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Exposing Liberals Gone
Wild. Her e-mail address is
malkinblog@gmail.com.
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