What the he!! was Huckabee thinking???
I honestly do not know.
I do know that this isn't the first time that Huckabee has had blow back from one of his many questionable clemency cases. And it isn't the first time he's blamed everyone but himself for his decisions.
This is from 2007:
A young lady named Ashley Stevens (I am naming her because the papers name her - I presume she allowed herself to be named) was raped by a criminal by the name of Wayne Dumond. She was 17 when she was raped, and he got a life sentence plus 20 years.
In spite of the fact that Dumond's victims publicly begged Huckabee not to release him, he did.
After Wayne Dumond got out, went on to rape and murder another innocent woman. Dumond eventually died in jail.
Prior to granting Wayne Dumond parole, Huckabee told his victim that he thought Dumond was innocent:
The Huffington Post, an online newspaper, escalated the matter Tuesday with the disclosure of several letters from women who said Dumond raped or had threatened to rape them. The women, whose names are blacked out in the Huffington Post story, asked Huckabee to do what he could as governor to keep Dumond behind bars.
Huckabee did not say yesterday whether he had read those letters. But in 1996, he spoke to the victim of the 1984 rape, Ashley Stevens, who told the Globe in an October interview that Huckabee "seemed to have already made up his mind. He just thought that Dumond was innocent."
Huckabee defends his role in Ark. rapist's parole case (^)
I defy any Huckabee supporter to try to put a good face on this. It cannot be done.