This appears to me to be a very smart move by candidate Huckabee. Today the campaign unveiled a “9-Point Strategy for Immigration Enforcement and Border Security.”  

Immigration was the major issue in which Huckabee seemed to be out of step with other cultural conservatives. Of course, it is impossible to say whether this represents a true Damascus Road conversion based-upon having talked with hundreds of ordinary citizens while campaigning; or is just a campaign strategists calculation.

 I would wager a lot that he’s been getting an earful from guys like me wherever he’s been, though.

Here’s NRO’s resident immigration hawk Mark Krikorian on the plan. He seems favorably impressed.