Posted on 12/04/2009 9:36:02 AM PST by yongin
Link is bad.
>>Well, that’s two down.<<
Precisely the words that came to mind when I read the headline.
Try this link.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/12/04/romney-says-he-takes-huckabee-at-his-word/
Actually, the link is bad because CNN pulled the article.
Interesting.
I do agree with another poster that what was written wasn’t really a defense of the clemency, it was just empathizing with Huckabee over a bad situation.
maybe Arlen Sphincter could chime in to complete the trifecta.
They're soooooooooo yesterday!
“My conclusion was if somebody has been convicted by a jury of their peers and they have been prosecuted and the police were able to get the evidence necessary to put them behind bars, why in the world would I step in and reverse that sentence,” He said.
Unless you believe as Huckabee that if a felon ‘finds God’ while in prison he gets a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Don't hold your breath. From the article which you didn't read:
"Romney, who in his four years as governor says he did not pardon or commute a single sentence,"
Courtesy FReeper Jeff Head:
Clemmons had a long history of crime in Arkansas as a teenager that was a little more involved than what Huckabee has explained on Hannity or on O'Reilly.
By 1990, when he was 18 year old, Clemmons had been sentenced to the 108 years in prison for eight felony charges from those teenage years in Arkansas. (emphasis: mine) The total prison term stemmed from multiple sentences, some of which were concurrent and others consecutive The largest sentencing came in 1990, when he was given a 60-year prison term for breaking into an Arkansas state trooper's home and stealing about $6,700-worth of items, including a gun. Clemmons was also sentenced in 1989 to 35 years in prison for robbing a woman at midnight in the parking lot of a Little Rock hotel bar. Clemmons pretended to have a gun in his pocket and threatened to shoot her if she did not give him her purse. When she reportedly responded, "Well, why don't you just shoot?", Clemmons punched her in the head and ran off with the purse, which contained $16 and a credit card. This is the incident that Huckabee talks about Clemmons getting such a long sentence for just stealing $16 dollars. Among Clemmons other sentencings were six years for weapon possession based on an arrest when he was a junior at Hall High School for carrying a .25-caliber pistol on school property; and eight years for burglary, theft and probation in Pulaski County on September 9, 1989. All in all Clemmons was not to be eligible for parole until 2015 or later.
This is the individual and set of criminal circumstances that Huckabee says any of us would have commuted. I disagree...with this string of crimes, and particularly his last one where he stole the large amount of material and the weapon (and being known for being arrested for either carrying weapons or claiming to while committing his crimes), I would have stood by the long sentence to keep this increasingly violent person off of our streets.
Huckabee's action allowed this thug immediate parole, and he is lying by omission when he claims that the long sentence was solely due to the one robbery of $16, he fails to duly inform those who are unaware of the sum total of time due. No comparison to the recruiter whatsoever.
He would...no one else would, but Romney would. Dumb clucks.
I would say that they are NOT on the same page:
“As Governor, Romney said he put strict pardoning guidelines in place to avoid letting personal impressions fog his judgment.
“My conclusion was if somebody has been convicted by a jury of their peers and they have been prosecuted and the police were able to get the evidence necessary to put them behind bars, why in the world would I step in and reverse that sentence,” He said.
No, it’s more like blaming the officers who knew about Hasan’s radicalism but instead of booting him, gave him a promotion.
Of course he does, they are the same, just one is slicker with better hair.
Neither of these guys needs to be anywhere near the nominee for the White House... The sooner these two goofs names are dropped from any consideration, the better.
The fact that Romney defends Huck should come as no surprise, he is just as big a RINO as Huck if not more so.
Probe: Mitt missed chance to keep Tavares jailed - Could have nixed killer’s early exit
Friday, December 28, 2007 - Boston Herald
"Former Gov. Mitt Romney’s administration failed to act on disciplinary recommendations
that would have kept ex-con killer Daniel Tavares locked up another year -
and behind bars at the time he was accused of killing a newlywed couple in Washington state."
"Despite Tavares’ long history of violence, the Romney-led Department of Correction
took no action on recommendations that he be stripped of “good time” because
of assaults on prison guards in 2003 and 2005, said sources familiar with a state probe into the case."
Stuck on stupid.
Mike commuted his sentence. The Parole board actually let him out. And he violated that parole was was not re-incarcerated.
Then he moved to Washington State committed 8 more felonies(at a minimum) and was bonded out there.
It’s a far bigger story than Arkansas.
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