Posted on 12/06/2009 10:29:58 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
The Mike Huckabee body count continues to rise.
During his 10 years as Arkansas governor, Huckabee commuted the sentences of 1,033 convicted criminals. He knowingly released more than a few rapists and murderers and sometimes mocked or attacked prosecutors who pleaded with him to keep violent offenders behind bars.
While Huckabee was governor, the parole board released convicted rapist Wayne Dumont. Huckabee had publicly argued for Dumont's release, and parole board members said he pressured them to let the rapist out. Eleven months after his release, Dumont raped and killed a woman.
In 2000, Huckabee granted clemency to Maurice Clemmons, who was sentenced to nearly a century behind bars for multiple felony convictions. Clemmons, suspected of murdering four Lakewood, Wash., police officers Monday morning, was shot dead on Tuesday by a Seattle officer. He was found with a gun stolen from one of the murdered officers and a gunshot wound consistent with the wound witnesses said the killer suffered while fleeing.
Those are just two of the 1,033 convicts Huckabee released. How many other victims, present and future, are out there?
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That Huckabee let that letter go out is quite revealing and not in a good way.
I never liked the Huckster. There was just something about him that screamed “Snake Oil!” and “Charlatan!” There was just something unseemly about him lurking just below the surface.
I say a pox on both their houses - both Huckabee and Romney are RINOs who need to just step aside and stop muddying the waters for real conservatives in 2012.
The fact that the letter was from 2004 and not 2001 only makes it worse. It means he was carrying out this insane policy for 3 years and still hadn’t learned anything. The arrogance displayed in his reply to the Prosecutor’s very reasonable letter is inexcusable at anytime under any circumstances.
I agree - I do like Huck’s tv show but I would not vote for him in the primaries, either. The pardon issue will stick with him like glue. It’s a tough issue to get away from.
“I never liked the Huckster. There was just something about him that screamed “Snake Oil!” and “Charlatan!” There was just something unseemly about him lurking just below the surface.”
Same here.
Huckabee is one of the few shows on Fox that I immediately turn off. He is smarmy and phony. He is not the least bit genuiune....honestly, I don’t know how anyone falls for him. False humility comes to mind.
We know someone who worked fairly high up in Arkansas government while he was governor and would agree with you 100%. Smarmy, phony. I don’t usually watch the majority Huck’s show but I do enjoy the music interviews he does.
If you are going to write a mocking, smart-ass letter on official stationary, you should make every effort to make it grammatically correct or you just look dumb.
“That old letter was from 2004, not 2001. It had nothing to do with the Clemmons case. Since we don’t know the details about the correspondence it’s useless to keep putting this on Free Republic threads over and over again, at length, ad nauseum.”
Actually, it was (and is) on the New York Times website. Say what you will about the Times, but the MSM loves Huck, since he gave us McCain, which gave Obama an easy ride to Washington. They were looking for a repeat performance this round, with Huck taking out Sarah, and then someone like Romney (with all of his baggage) getting crushed in 2012. Not so easy this time, ehhh...
Who cares which case it concerned. It's still an unprofessional, arrogant response. The prosecutor took the time to compose a respectful, well argued letter, and Huckabee sent him a reply that sounds like it was written by a psycho. Thank God we only have to deal with a radical socialist egomaniac in the White House, instead of a Bible thumping socialist egomaniac who calls himself a conservative.
I even wrote a letter to the Fox Network, telling them as a retired cop, just seeing his mug on the programs.... does it for me :^(
Huckabee stated that the earth is 6000 years old. That is his draw.
Hogwash. It just shows he has a sense of humor, something more politicians could benefit from. Probably several letters went back and forth and perhaps the guy was being being snotty and so the funny letter rounded out the conversation.
Without any details about what transpired in full this really has no effect at all on the debate, since it has nothing to do with Clemmons.
Read the pro-Huckabee responses at the link provided. If anyone on FR thinks that Huck is dead, they will be in for a rude awakening at the Iowa Caucus in 3 years.
Huck needs to be put out to pasture (along with Mitt) but FR seems to think Huckabee is not a threat.
Nevermind the other letters of the alphabet that have reported for this duty, I shall be charitable and simply suggest a campaign to “CHUCK HUCK”; in Iowa and beyond.
He can’t be arrogant; he’s a minister!
You can’t get much more arrogant than that.
By definition, liberals lack the ability to recognize psychopaths. Huckabee is a charlatan and a liberal.
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