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Paroled Rapist Could Haunt Huckabee
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| 12/4/07
| Brian Montopoli.
Posted on 12/04/2007 8:38:24 AM PST by NavVet
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Can you say Willie Horton.
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posted on
12/04/2007 8:38:25 AM PST
by
NavVet
To: NavVet
This is bad for Huckabee for two reasons:
(1) He was soft on a dangerous criminal.
(2) He was soft on a dangerous criminal because he was apparently motivated by political animus against President Clinton and not by the actual underlying facts of the case.
He acted like a liberal to get back at a liberal, and now two innocent women are dead.
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posted on
12/04/2007 8:42:52 AM PST
by
wideawake
(Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
To: NavVet
I remember this case at the time, there were a lot of conservatives who thought the Clintons had been involved in railroading DuMond.
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posted on
12/04/2007 8:43:53 AM PST
by
CatoRenasci
(Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
To: CatoRenasci
If a democrat did this, we would all be outraged here.
To: NavVet
Great is the truth, and it prevails.
The secondary issue here is that CBS are doing us all a big favour by torpedoing Huckabee, though perhaps they don’t realize it.
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posted on
12/04/2007 8:44:59 AM PST
by
agere_contra
(Do not confuse the wealth of nations with the wealth of government - FDT)
To: NavVet
There was a whole contingent of Freepers supporting Wayne DuMond at the time.
Turns out he really was a bad-guy.
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posted on
12/04/2007 8:46:09 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
To: NavVet
Huckabee wrote a letter to DuMond saying "my desire is that you be released from prison." Less than a year later, DuMond was granted parole.Yesterday Laura Ingraham read the letter that Huck wrote DuMond.........yep, just another liberal with a bible tucked under his arm.
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posted on
12/04/2007 8:47:30 AM PST
by
AuntB
(" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
To: CatoRenasci
I remember this case at the time, there were a lot of conservatives who thought the Clintons had been involved in railroading DuMond. A lot of people became obsessed with tagging President Clinton with every crime in America and with imaginary crimes as well.
It was just excessive and made some conservatives look like moonbats.
The reality of what the Clintons have documentedly done is damning enough.
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posted on
12/04/2007 8:47:46 AM PST
by
wideawake
(Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
To: NavVet
I don’t see this working against him in a general election. Huckabee paroled a bad guy. The Clintons PARDONED FALN terrorists who planted bombs.
No comparison.
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posted on
12/04/2007 8:48:08 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(Not a newbie, I just wanted a new screen name.)
To: NavVet
The Romney’s enemies tried to take him down for a judge he appointed who let a criminal go, but in the Huckster’s case, he personally let the criminal go...Arkansas has contributed enough to the decline of our Republic.
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posted on
12/04/2007 8:48:12 AM PST
by
Nephi
( $100m ante is a symptom of the old media... the Ron Paul Revolution is the new media's choice.)
To: Eric Blair 2084; flashbunny; NeoCaveman; SoConPubbie; Esther Ruth; pissant; pandoraou812; ...
Ping - I can still remember when the Huckster pardoned this pervert against the outcry across the state. Right then I knew there was more to the Huckster than the squeeky clean image he let be shown in public.
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posted on
12/04/2007 8:53:16 AM PST
by
OB1kNOb
(Support Duncan Hunter for the 2008 GOP presidential nominee. He is THE true conservative candidate.)
To: Dr. Sivana
I dont see this working against him in a general election. I do.
The Clintons PARDONED FALN terrorists who planted bombs.
One, the MSM will not portray both cases equally. Two, unless the Huckabee campaign can show that one of the FALN terrorists murdered and raped two women after he was pardoned, they are at a huge propaganda disadvantage.
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posted on
12/04/2007 8:53:42 AM PST
by
wideawake
(Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
To: NavVet
From
Crime Library:January 2004, DuMond was sentenced again to life in prison for the 2000 murder of Carol Sue Shields, 39. Shields was found bound and suffocated "on the bed in the apartment of a man with whom she had been having an affair," Dana Fields said in an AP Online article. DNA evidence, which was found under the victim's nails, linked DuMond to the crime. Aside from the 1985 rape conviction, DuMond had also been previously arrested for sexual assaults in 1972, 1973 and in 1976.
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posted on
12/04/2007 8:56:54 AM PST
by
NeoCaveman
("On illegal immigration, Huckabee makes George Bush sound like Tom Tancredo." - Ann Coulter)
To: Dr. Sivana
It might not work against him in the general, but it’s not going to help him in the primary with law and order Republicans.
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posted on
12/04/2007 8:59:12 AM PST
by
LadyNavyVet
(An independent Freeper, not paid by any political campaign.)
To: NavVet
Its not going to have the impact that Huckabee’s insane tuition for illegals is having right now.
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posted on
12/04/2007 9:00:27 AM PST
by
Badeye
(Free Willie!)
To: NavVet
DuMond had gotten a raw deal...born on the wrong side of the tracks... Because DuMond was born on the "wrong side of the tracks", Huckabee put DuMond on the wrong side of the FENCE.
I thought the American ideal was that it didn't matter who your parents were, or whether you were rich or poor - every man should be treated equally in the eyes of the law. And Huckabee has softness for certain criminals (including criminal invaders) because of their social background? What is this exactly, more "compassionate conservatism"??
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posted on
12/04/2007 9:01:41 AM PST
by
M203M4
(True Universal Suffrage: Pets of dead illegal-immigrant felons voting Democrat (twice))
To: NavVet
Why oh why does the GOP not have anybody? I guess my top 2 are Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter but they just can’t seem to get traction and I can’t seem to get pumped up about them. Huckabee has kind of that scary Jimmy Carter side where in the name of religion he does a lot of dangerous naive things.
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posted on
12/04/2007 9:02:35 AM PST
by
RushingWater
(Pres. Bush honors Mexican sovereignty over our own - Pardon Ramos/Campeon/Hernandez)
To: CatoRenasci
I remember this case at the time, there were a lot of conservatives who thought the Clintons had been involved in railroading DuMond. Yeah, that's the way I remember it as well.
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posted on
12/04/2007 9:11:27 AM PST
by
AxelPaulsenJr
(Fred Thompson for President)
To: LadyNavyVet
It might not work against him in the general, but its not going to help him in the primary with law and order Republicans.
Agreed. But there isn't a top-tier candidate who doesn't have at least one serious fracture in his "law-and-order" image. Giuliani wanted to be the law and order guy, but he has more problems along these lines than the rest of the candidates put together.
Frankly, I see an extremely unusual cycle where six candidates have no good reason to drop out. Each candidate has a base of support that will neither grow nor shrink past a certain point. Giuliani will STILL do well in the leftist bastions of the northeast and west coast. Iowa may not win it for Huckabee, but it certainly won't hurt him either. McCain can finish in second in New Hampshire, win Arizona, and hope for a brokered convention. Thompson should fare well in the south and the rural midwest. Romney will pick up Michigan, Mormon heavy states (nothing against LDS, but there is no doubt that Mormons tend to support Mormons). And Paul has no reason to drop out. His small but committed base will stick with him, and he can be a bit of a pest in crossover states, especially if the Dem race is uncompetitive.
I don't see Paul turniing over his handful of delegates to anybody.
I don't see any of the other five turning over delegates without a candidate with a clear path to a majority of delegates. Except for maybe Huckabee, none of these guys makes a very good VEEP prospect.
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posted on
12/04/2007 9:15:32 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(Not a newbie, I just wanted a new screen name.)
To: wideawake
Two, unless the Huckabee campaign can show that one of the FALN terrorists murdered and raped two women after he was pardoned,....Refresh my memory, was this before or after DuMond as castrated? My recollection is that the for a long time the sheriff of St. Francis county had DuMond's testicles displayed in a jar on the sheriff's desk.
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posted on
12/04/2007 9:23:58 AM PST
by
AxelPaulsenJr
(Fred Thompson for President)
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