[Josh Painter]

Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Quick Reference

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Well he only raised taxes 0.6 percent, to some people that is a tax cut!/S

[Fred]

The MSM is trying to paint the GOP race as a '5 MAN RACE'...they want to split the real republican vote across Huck, FDT and McCain. This is the way they want to insure a win by Rooty.

In the mean time, Huck will take what scrapes Giuliani will throw to him such as VP...may have already cut the deal...

[pissant]

Hey, we agree on something.

[Politicalmom]

Wow.

[Eric Blair 2084]

Nice find. I only use the CFG for their ratings, not articles.

I hadn’t actually considered the leftist MSM conspiracy theory to have Huckabee steal some socon votes, thus depriving Fred of the nomination and ending up as Rudy’s running mate.

[NRA2BFree]

His latest slap in the face to Americans came this morning when he voted for the Dream Act to pass! THAT, initself is reason enough to vote against him!

[OB1kNOb]

What do Arkansas conservatives think of their former governor? Not much. The Arkansas Republican Assembly, an organization whose members are among the most fiercely conservative in the state, held a presidential straw poll at its annual convention in July. Huckabee was trounced in the poll by Fred Thompson, who received 86% (that’s right - 86%) of the votes cast by the ARRA delegates.

LISTEN UP FREEPERS!

Heed what your cohorts who've suffered under the Huckster's governorship have to say about him. They are waving the red flag in your face. HEED THE WARNING!

Need more convincing? Check out all the articles compiled on my profile page. If that doesn't convince you then all I can say to you is that none are so blind as those who will not see.

[Uncle Ivan]

What do Arkansas conservatives think of their former governor? Not much.

Not much is right.

I'm still pissed at Huckabee taking away the academic challenge scholarship after 9-11. Many of us that had worked to get good grades throughout high school to earn it for college were depending on it.

I understand budget cuts after 9-11, but he turns right around after he's brought it back a year or two later and wants to let illegals in on the same scholarship? No way.

I was through with the Huck from then on.

[Uncle Ivan]

... there is one man Huckabee believed deserved a second chance, convicted rapist Wayne Dumond, who continues to haunt Huckabee’s burgeoning presidential campaign.

... Dumond - now dead - was paroled from an Arkansas prison, with then- governor Huckabee’s endorsement, only to sexually assault and kill a woman in Missouri.

“It was one of those things I just feel horrible about. You just ache all the way to the bone over what happened,” the former Arkansas governor said in an interview. “But nobody could know that” Dumond would attack again, he said.

Dumond’s case is notorious in Arkansas. In 1984, he raped a 17-year-old girl. While awaiting trial at his home, he was castrated by, he said, masked intruders. Later, after Dumond went to prison for life, some people in Arkansas saw the sentence as excessive, especially given his mutilation.

Huckabee was one, and, after becoming governor in 1996, he announced his desire to commute Dumond’s sentence. Dumond’s rape victim, Ashley Stevens, saw it differently.

Stevens, now 40 and living in the western United States, said she tried to persuade Huckabee not to shorten the sentence for Dumond.

“I told [Huckabee]: If you ever let him out, he’s going to do it again,” she said in an interview.

She was able to get a meeting with the governor - who, she said, had not spoken to her before announcing his intention to commute Dumond’s sentence - but realized Huckabee had “made up his mind.” So Stevens stood up, she said, walked over to Huckabee, who was seated on a sofa, squatted down and thrust her face inches from his.

“I said, ‘This is how close I was to Dumond’s face for an hour,’ “ Stevens recalled. “ ‘I’ll never forget his face, and you’ll never forget mine.’ “

The parole board - following a closed meeting with Huckabee - decided to let Dumond go. The following year, Dumond committed the Missouri slaying. He died in prison in 2005.

Otherwise known as the "Dear Wayne" scandal. Huckabee actually wrote Dumond a couple of letters, telling him that he was on his side, and he would press for commutation of his sentence.

No, I'm not kidding. Our then-governor took the side of a rapist.

As for those "masked intruders", many people around here know exactly who did it. Dumond later got what he had coming, for the second time, in a Missouri prison.

[unspun]

Hit piece.