Posted on 11/30/2009 2:46:22 PM PST by BarnacleCenturion
I have had disdain for Mike Huckabee for a long time. His weak kneed faux conservative views are sickening. Now he has had a hand in allowing a killer out on the streets when there was no reason to provide clemency for Clemmons. There were no mistakes in his case, yet Huckabee took it upon himself to free this thug with the thought that Clemmons received his 95-year sentence when he was young.
Huckabee is now scrambling to cover up his part in freeing Clemmons blaming it on the justice system and not on his own weak spine. As for Clemmons, he is scrambling too. Two pea in a pod...
Then there's the Washington state justice department, a typical liberal state, who thought it was a good idea to allow Clemmons to have bond set. he quickly came up with the $15,000 needed to secure a $150,000 bail and walked with only an ankle bracelet on. The bracelet was later found cut off. Four officers are dead, the public is at risk and many families are destroyed. This story sums up the bleeding heart mentality - and its results - in a nutshell.
Clemmons has an extensive violent criminal history in Arkansas. He also recently was arrested and charged in Washington State for assaulting a police officer, and second-degree rape of a child. Using a bail bondsman, he posted $150,000 -- only $15,000 of his own money -- and was released from jail last week.
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Clemmons, 37, who had a lengthy prison sentence commuted by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee nearly a decade ago, became the prime target Sunday in the search for the killer of Lakewood Police Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39; and Officers Ronald Owens, 37; Tina Griswold, 40; and Greg Richards 42.
...On Sunday, Huckabee deflected blame with a statement on his Web site.
"Should he be found to be responsible for this horrible tragedy, it will be the result of a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas and Washington State," he wrote.
Note he doesn't state the series of failures that he is responsible for, like letting this criminal with a 95-year sentence free on society.
Society has decided, properly I think, to make the life of our President worth more than the life of an ordinary citizen.
In somewhat of a decending order, so are the lives of Congressmen, Governors, and, eventually, the ordinary cop on the beat.
You obviously disagree, but much of this has been written into law.
How is the conservative movement supposed to get stronger when errors by decent people are shredded ruthlessly by those on the same team? Did he sell out? Was he corrupt? Were his morals compromised? Otherwise, who can say the same decision wouldn’t be made again given the facts he had at the time? He didn’t open the prison door - he commuted a sentence - not sure if it was from death to life or from a longer time to a shorter one...whatever, there were many other people who had to be involved in freeing the guy. He didn’t get a pardon.
Firstly, Passthebuckabee is not a conservative.
He will play no part in the strengthening of the conservative movement regardless of this incident.
Secondly, without Passthebuckabee’s reducing this man’s sentence from 108 years to 47, he would have remained ineligible for parole.
In other words, Passthebuckabee enabled this entire situation from the start.
Despite that Huck is pro life, christian, pro gun ownership, pro border security, advocates for national defense, and is pro tax reform, my point is if conservatives don’t need his vote or any others like him, then keep shredding him. He irritated the heck out of me during the election but if conservatives keep spitting on anything that looks a little different, it’s going to be a long time out of power.
In his bid for clemency, Clemmons noted that he was just a teenager when he committed the crimes. He also said that he was from “a very good Christian family” and expressed shame for what he had done. “...the angel of death has visited and taken away my dear sweet mother, and this more than anything has effected change for the good in my heart,” he wrote. “Because now I have to live with all that I put her through I wasn’t able to be with her and make her proud of me before she passed away. I have never done anything good for God, but I’ve prayed for him to grant me in his compassion the grace to make a start. Now I’m humbly appealing to you for a brand-new start.”
Listen, I am not ever going to knowingly vote for a person who releases criminals by the thousand into the public.
Incarceration is the job of judges and juries, not idiots elected to office.
I don’t care what his politics are, and I do not care about power either. The democrats may be allowed to get away with murder by their voters, I will hold republicans accountable for every one of their actions.
If you want to vote for him, you do that. There is nothing you can say that will convince me to support this sorry excuse for a governor.
Done with Passthebuckabee, got it?
Listen, I never voted for him and never would. Our team sucks. And...if we keep spitting on all our teammates we’re going to continue to stink.
I understand what you are saying. There are a lot of phonies on the right side of the isle. All I am telling you is that I did not support Huckabee previously, but there is no way on this earth I can support him now. I accept his acknowledgment of some measure of responsibility in this matter, but for me, the consequence of that responsibility is that I would never consider trusting him with the power of presidential pardons. His poor judgment played a part in the death of four innocent people. Enough, Mike.
I appreciate what you’re saying, too.
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