I have never particularly liked Huckabee, but the way some people (Romney supporters, in their majority, I understand) are turning every thread on this into a hate-Huckabee festival is ridiculous.
He was but one of many factors and has not had any involvement with this for almost a decade. In the meanwhile, we’re completely ignoring the WA judge who let this guy out on bail just a couple of months ago, and ignoring the whole lousy parole system in two states that for years never supervised him or did its job (which would have been to return him to jail for the rest of his sentence).
In fact, I read that one of the conditions of his second parole in AR was that he leave the state and go to WA, where he had family. So everybody was essentially passing him around and now they all want to scream that it wasn’t their fault and point their fingers at an unpopular political figure, which they are being assisted in doing by the sufferers of Huckabee Derangement Syndrome on this board.
Blaming Romney supporters isn’t helping either. That’s like saying Mitt Romney and his core of supporters are responsible for that monster’s reign of terror. Clemmons’ life of crime didn’t just start 6 weeks ago.
I agree that it's not Huckabee's sole fault, and that people later in the chain did more to get things to this point than he did...but are we going to start calling every objection to a pol "derangment syndrome?" Not only are the people who dislike Huckabee on this board far more reasonable than many of the folks who had it in for Romney, Rudy, McCain or even Fred, they generally have their facts straight and deploy them effectively. For every post I saw last year that was truly hateful about Huck, there were 20 that were off the chain about McCain, and that was before he won the nomination.
He's a tax-raiser, soft on crime, has a loopy immigration stance and a tax plan that guarantees a Democrat win. No derangement is involved in that assessment, and that's the clear-eyed assessment I've heard again and again on FR.