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Mike Huckabee: Political attacks 'disgusting'
politico ^ | 12/1/09 | ANDY BARR

Posted on 12/01/2009 10:49:21 AM PST by Mount Athos

Under fire for commuting the sentence of suspected cop-killer Maurice Clemmons, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Tuesday called some of the criticisms “disgusting” and suggested they were attempts to score political points.

“It really does show how sick our society has become that people are more concerned about a campaign three years from now than those grieving families in Washington,” Huckabee said during an interview on Joe Scarborough’s radio show. “It is disgusting, but people use anything as a political weapon.”

Huckabee granted Clemmons, a suspect in the killings of four police officers in Washington state over the weekend, clemency in 2001. He had served 11 years in prison after being sentenced at the age of 18 to 60 years in prison for burglary and theft and was set to serve the 60 years, in addition to the 48 years he was already serving on five felony counts.

After his sentence was commuted, Clemmons was paroled by an Arkansas board and moved to Washington in 2004, where he was charged with eight felonies prior to gunning down the police officers in a coffee shop.

Clemmons was shot and killed Tuesday morning by an officer investigating a stolen car.

Huckabee has been thrashed in the right-wing blogosphere by leading online conservative voices who have criticized his commutation of Clemmons’ sentence.

In addition, Minnesota GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty – one of Huckabee’s potential challengers for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012– said Tuesday that he would not have granted Clemmons clemency if he had been in Huckabee’s position.

“I don't think I've ever voted for clemency,” Pawlenty told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham. “We’ve given out pardons for things after everybody has served out their term, but again, usually for more minor offenses. But clemency? Certainly not. Commutation of sentence? Certainly not.

Huckabee defended his choice to grant the Arkansas felon clemency by insisting that Clemmons original sentence went too far.

“If he were a white kid from an upper middle class family he would have gotten a lawyer and some counseling,” Huckabee said. “But because he was a young black kid he got 108 years.”

Huckabee said the sentence was “far disproportionate from any other punishment in Arkansas at the time for a similar crime.”

“It’s a lot easier to be a pundit or a commentator or a blogger than to govern the state and have to make tough decisions,” he said. “People are talking about this from a political standpoint, but what they need to be asking is how did the system break down?”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: clemmons; copkiller; huckabee; huckster; mauriceclemmons; mikehuckabee; mittwhit; mittwhits; mittwit; rino; rinos; rinos4huckabee
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1 posted on 12/01/2009 10:49:22 AM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos
Mike Huckabee on Clemency (music video)
2 posted on 12/01/2009 10:50:47 AM PST by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Mount Athos

Buh bye Huck!

Don’t be so bitter. I’m sure those “grieving Washington families” aren’t upset with you, NOT.


3 posted on 12/01/2009 10:52:38 AM PST by brownsfan (The average American: Uninformed, and unconcerned.)
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To: Mount Athos

What’s disgusting is refusing to take responsibility for the fact that 4 cops are dead because you let a dangerous thug back onto the streets when he should have died in prison.


4 posted on 12/01/2009 10:53:29 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Mount Athos

Huckabee is melting down faster that I thought he would....He is a liberal Criminal Rights advocate

And, a lesson for all of us....never ever elect someone who values Criminal Rights over Citizen and Victim Rights....and include this “never supporting” all those who support Illegal Alien Rights over Citizen Rights (as Illegal Aliens are criminals for breaking US immigration law)

We will see few children raped, killed, and fewer law enforcement massacred, once we stop supporting politicans who value Criminal Rights


5 posted on 12/01/2009 10:53:38 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (Al Gore is neither a scientist (Global Warming Fraud) nor an economist (Free Trade, NAFTA))
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To: Mount Athos

He’s toast.


6 posted on 12/01/2009 10:53:42 AM PST by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: Mount Athos

4 BRAVE POLICE OFFICERS KILLED BY THIS SCUM CLEMMONS IS DISGUSTING !!!


7 posted on 12/01/2009 10:53:43 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: Mount Athos

“..but people use anything as a political weapon.”

Yeah. Carzy things like your past record.


8 posted on 12/01/2009 10:54:21 AM PST by Pessimist (u)
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To: Mount Athos

Huck is more upset he’s being criticised for a bad decision than the fact he let this guy out (from murder) and he murdered 4 more people.

Sorry Huck, not with you on this one.


9 posted on 12/01/2009 10:54:56 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Mount Athos

Huckabee also bringing up race, oh how nice. When all else fails, bring up race. Hey Huck, you have a long history of letting prisoners out early. This isn’t your first time. You have done this again and again and again


10 posted on 12/01/2009 10:55:13 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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“It really does show how sick our society has become that people are more concerned about a campaign three years from now than those grieving families in Washington,”

The only thing worse is for the punk who granted the clemency being the nominee for the GOP. WE can't save the slain you could have.

11 posted on 12/01/2009 10:55:32 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
What’s disgusting is refusing to take responsibility for the fact that 4 cops are dead because you let a dangerous thug back onto the streets when he should have died in prison.
Bingo!

You said EXACTLY what I wanted to!

12 posted on 12/01/2009 10:56:09 AM PST by RonDog
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Amen!


13 posted on 12/01/2009 10:56:11 AM PST by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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bump


14 posted on 12/01/2009 10:56:14 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Mount Athos
Few executive screw ups have such publicity disastrous consequences.

Huckabee has truly become Huckleberry and, to his dismay, is finished in his quest for the Presidency.

Stealing from Forrest Gump, Squishy is as squishy does.

15 posted on 12/01/2009 10:56:34 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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To: Mount Athos

Shut up, Huckabee! You are a rotten lousy whitened sepulchre.


16 posted on 12/01/2009 10:57:44 AM PST by Palladin (Holder and Obama terrorize New Yorkers.)
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To: Mount Athos

Huckabee is being a total wuss here. I am shocked at how much of a wussie he is being. Just say, “Hey, it was a tough decision, I made the best decision I could at the time, and it has has turned out to be terribly wrong.” and let it be.. All this wussie wuss whining he is doing is unbeleivable..


17 posted on 12/01/2009 10:58:13 AM PST by BRK
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To: Mount Athos
I don't like Huck at all,

But I do admit it is WAAAAY over the top !

so obvious the wAY they cover up Obama's past and viciously attack palin, but even the shooting story at Yahoo had a big Huckabee footnote at the bottom.

the media is evil

18 posted on 12/01/2009 10:58:18 AM PST by KTM rider ( ..........tell me this really isn't happening ! !)
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Yeah Huck, you’d never do such a thing to your opponent.

For some reason I’ve always despised this smarmy pseudo-folksy hypocrite.


19 posted on 12/01/2009 10:58:27 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: Mount Athos
“It really does show how sick our society has become that people are more concerned about a campaign three years from now than those grieving families in Washington,” Huckabee said, while symbolically hiding behind the grieving families to avoid taking responsibility for his actions that created the situation.
20 posted on 12/01/2009 10:59:38 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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