Posted on 12/02/2009 9:30:01 PM PST by SmithL
Well, that headline sounds like a biased “liberal” attempt to change the subject. Yes, he was culpable but come on...that headline is asinine...
Why didn’t this scandal dog Huckleberry in the Republican primaries? Surely neither Romney nor McCain had too many scruples?
Huckabee has no shame. Not only passing the buck, but his utter lack of tact or compassion- for the real victims, I mean, not the criminals who prey on them.
Never thought I’d read a liberal rag from SF “complain” about clemency given to killers — oh, just remembered, the subject is a “conservative, Republican.” Delete comment...
Actually, it did. The Romney campaign brought it up with Wayne Dumond laying the entire fault at Huckabee's feet, and ignoring the Arkansas Parole Board's involvement.
It may have hurt Huckabee then, but it didn't end his career.
And while the end result of the Clemons case was worse, the information on Clemons at the time of the decision doesn't look nearly as bad.
That to a gay rag from SF is like candy to a baby. That's irresistable. They'd come near admitting homosexuality is a perversion and a sin, if it meant they got to bash Huckabee in the process.
Saunders is a conservative writer and I think she went too easy on Huckleberry. He didnt do his homework, he didnt take input from victims, and he handed these out like candy if it came from the "right" source.
Face it, the guy is history.
Oh my. Gone from the public eye. Bu-Bye.
Well...maybe that is a good thing. I understand sympathy but to forgive this type of criminal is beyond my understanding. I guess that these governors have a bit more information, but it does seem to prove their decisions wrong again and again...
When he gave out more pardons than every bordering state...COMBINED, then the candy reference seems appropriate.
“When he gave out more pardons than every bordering state...COMBINED, then the candy reference seems appropriate.”
Clearly he was out of control...and one of these little actions was going to take him out. Better now than later...after he would wreck a second election for the Republican Party.
This is truly amazing. Some liberal airhead from SF was trying to write an article praising Huckabee for pardoning so many poor victims of the system. Then when she researched Huckabee's pardons for her article even she couldn't stomach Huckabee's hypocritical politicking and his blatant disregard for protecting the public.
Huckabee's record on pardons is so bad even SF leftists are disgusted by it.
Well, I would have to have some kind of proof of that statement... Link?
I don’t think that they were “pardon”, just commuted the sentences. It’s basically the same thing that Gregoire has promised to do in WA.
Yes, I understand but did not like the all out denigration of Huckabee (even though I would never vote for him). After all, he is at least a Semi-Conservative - or at least not a Democrat. That makes him a much nicer fellow that all those southern Democrats...heh.
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