The “God knows what reason” was that at the time, anti-Clinton “Arkancide” hysteria led alot of conservatives (including many Freepers) to believe that Dumond was railroaded. Huck was doing what his base wanted in encouraging that scumbag’s parole. I don’t give him a pass on it, but it’s hypocritical to act like was acting on his own.
Aw come on...don’t toss that word “hypocritical” around at me.
I call a foul.
I understand that DuMond was considered to be a victim of the Clinton machine regarding his very distant relationship with DuMond’s first victim, Ashley Stevens to Clinton.
There were a whole lot of other folks clammering for DuMond’s release and I wonder in my article and I wonder now...in view of the fact that their hero DuMond went on to viciously murder two women, are any of these alleged Freepers (I don’t know any of them but I believe you) who championed DuMond’s release at all sorry?
Further, DuMond’s criminal history was anything but pristine prior to his rape, a fact Huckabee was often prone to quote. DuMond was involved in the murder of a man in 1972. He turned state’s witness but he did testify to hitting the man with a claw hammer. He also confessed to another rape then later recanted when the woman wouldn’t testify out of fear for DuMond.
There’s plenty more on DuMond pre the rape that got him thrown in jail. It only took a little investigation, folks. Huckabee went about repeating the mantra. Couldn’t he have had somebody on his staff check it out?
then you know what he did? He told everybody that there was NO DNA evidence linking DuMond to the rape of Ashley. Well no...there was NO DNA evidence because for whatever reason...NONE WAS TAKEN. Or else DNA evidence was taken and later it was lost or destroyed. This rape took place in 1985, way before sophisticated DNA tests were available. Thus before the very fine hero of yours DuMond was released, there was NO DNA evidence available to re-test. It’s not quite the same thing as there being NO DNA evidence, a phrase that causes the average human to think this means that the DNA did NOT match DuMond. There was none, period. They call that phraseology obsfucation.
DuMond married a so-called church lady after his release. I wonder if some Arkansas Blogger shouldn’t find this lady who so loved her jailhouse hero and ask her how she feels about the two women her husband killed within six months of her marriage. I wonder how Carol Shields’ six children feel with yet another Christmas coming up without their mother.
DuMond was a case of group hysteria as you might argue but don’t go calling ME a hypocrite. I’d think people who championed a man’s release from jail who went on to kill two more innocent women who should be alive and buying their Christmas gifts even as I type would be hypocrites.
How about DuMond’s lovely wife....where is she?
Finally...how does one explain the following stats:
Here are the figures for neighboring states since 1996, when Huckabee took office (and keep in mind the population of these states is nearly 20 times ours):
___ >> Louisiana – 213.
___ >> Mississippi – 24.
___ >> Missouri – 79.
___ >> Oklahoma – 178.
___ >> Tennessee – 32.
___ >> Texas – 98 (in-cludes 36 inmates released because they were convicted on drug charges with planted evidence).
___ Total: 624 vs. Huckabee’s 703?
Please....vote for Huckabee if you want. But if you or I did such a terrible job for sure we’d not be running for president.
What Huck does very well is tap into his Christianity. He is not apologetic about it and for most Evangelicals, it is a breath of fresh air. He has tapped into that frustration.
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