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Since Huckabee far surpassed the previous 2 decades worth of commutations and pardons from other governors. It seems like more of a Huckabee thing.
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Huckabee issued twice as many as Bill Clinton, Jim Guy Tucker, and the governor before Clinton combined.

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You don't have to worry so much about letting tax cheats and embargo cheaters back onto the streets of the US as you do about murderers and rapists.
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This is a candidate with a Glass Jaw, kneecap, elbow, etc. In the General he will get murdered. Can you image HRC running Willie Hortan (aka Dumont) ads. What a turn around that would be.
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Like, is it possible you could use some logic? Why is it every time there is something about Huckabee, a Huckabee supporter has to say something negitive about Romney. No sure how you can make that leap of logic. Give some content, something. Just blurting out something just doesn't cut it.
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That's what bots do. They do exactly as they're programmed.

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What stories are they holding? That he patronized a business that has illegal aliens on its payroll? Nope, that one was worth about two dozen front page stories spread out over the course of a year. I just don't think they got much on him.
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Why is it every time there is reporting about something bad about Huckanut, its called a hit piece. Face it, Huckabee has an excuse for everything. There more he makes excuses the more it works against him. Its never the original crime that gets you, its the cover up.
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There you go again. You can't address the issue, so you have to change it. We are talking about Huckabee, not Romney. Instead of address the issue, you attack Romney. What does Romney has to do any of this?
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I think you mistake me for someone else.

At any rate, I was just pointing out the danger of attacking someone else along one's own weak lines.

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Once again, its about Huckabee letting criminal out of Jail early. The diary has nothing to do with Romney. So, why hijack this thread. If you want to say that Romney does this or that, start you own thread.
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No need to belabor the point.

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Why is it that when someone lies about or distorts Huckabee's record must his supporters set it straight?

Huckabee did not parole Dumond. No wonder Dems have been holding fire. WIth Republicans doing the smear jobs against Republican candidates, they don't even have to get their hands dirty.

The Parole board did. Huckabee has no power over the parole board and cannot force them to do anything one way or another.

The parole board said they felt pressured, but that was years after the parole and the people who said they felt pressured were the appointees of previous governors who no longer had their jobs at the parole board (cushy ones too) and had scores to settle against Huckabee.

but that doesn't sound like an "excuse" to me. It sounds like a statement of fact. If it is a fact, why keep saying that it isn't?

The "Third Worst Person in the World" and aiming higher.

the exact thing everyone hates about Romney supporters -- defending him in every instance as if he's never made a mistake.

Stop already!

Huckabee's efforts to free Wayne DuMond are well documented and indefensible. He may not have had the power to "parole" him but he did indeed exert influence to have him paroled.

Every time a Huck supporter comes to his defense on this, they lose all credibility.

And the fact that Huck won't own up to his mistake on this projects not only the image of incompetence, but dishonesty as well.

the exact thing everyone hates about Romney supporters -- defending him in every instance as if he's never made a mistake.

Not sure I would agree with that statement, but agree with the rest. If a candidate I support does something I don't agree with, I will not blindly make excuses for him.

Secondly, once again, its about Huckabee. If someone wants to make a thread about Romney and point out his flaws (which I sure are some), then we can address it there.

But it is interesting to see how Romney got caught with an illegal Alien working for him and how Huckabee acts. Romney takes the blame, and fires the company. He doesn't try to say it didn't happen.
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Why is it that the three parole board members (out of seven) who claim Huck exerted influence on them only did so six years after the fact, during a gubernatorial election cycle, and after two of them had not been re-appointed to $75K a year roles on the parole board?

Why does the parole board chair at the time dispute the recollections of the others?

Why is it that most stories regarding this issue fail to mention the DNA evidence which arose several years after Dumond's conviction which raised questions about his guilt in this particular case? (Yes, he did later commit heinous crimes, so he should not have been released.)

The Dumond case was not an issue in which Huckabee was alone in relooking at the conviction. There were thousands of Arkansans who were questioning whether justice had been committed in his conviction and/or sentencing.

There are some reactionary Huckabots on RedState. There are others who merely try to set the record straight. We're not making excuses. What do you expect Huck to do when he's attacked? If the attacks come, he will defend himself.

If I see an unfair attack on Huck (or other candidates) on RedState, I will likely post a clarifying response.

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but for the letter Bubba Jr. sent him. He clearly wanted Dumond on the street. You can split hairs about pardons and commutations and parole, etc, but you can't get away from the FACT that Bubba wanted the guy out of prison as soon as possible.

With respect to the subject of this blog, I know nothing about any of those guys. I do know that BJ's "early release" numbers look really suspicious.
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So it's not like it is a stretch to think he intervened on his behalf, especially considering his record here.
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What exactly is "the DNA evidence which arose several years after Dumond's conviction which raised questions about his guilt"?

If you do post a clarifying post, I look forward to part of the post containing information about the DNA.

As a prosecutor for sixteen (16) years, I am very intersted in learning more about the exact nature of the DNA evidence that raised questions about his guilt.

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Ah,
Seems the parole board says Huck pushed them. It was documented an illegal closed door meeting took place with out the meeting reporter where this happened. The meeting is on file with the AK parole board but there are no notes on the subject.
Hucks position was further proved in his statement on the day of this murdering rapist release where he said: if the parole board would not have released him i would have. And, further went on to concur with the parole board.

True he might have done this as a result of dem pushing because of Clinton involvement but again this proves my second point.

If Huck cant stand up to the Dems in little old AK then how will he do it in big bad washington??????

The electability argument you make is probably largely true. Another way I look at it is this though: if you were a Dem, who would you least fear getting into office? For them, I imagine having Huckabee on our ticket would be like our view if Rudy ran as a Democrat- wrong on social issues, right on fiscal issues. I think most Republicans would agree that we would be ecstatic if a loss resulted in us getting Rudy in the white house. Maybe the Democrats feel the same way- if Huckabee is the nominee, even if they lose, they still get a socialist in the white house.

Since when do we trust Democrats judgement on anything, including who'd be easiest to beat?

They also thought they would gain in the House & Senate in 2002, and we all know what happened there.

They also thought W would be easy to beat in 2004 and couldn't wait for November.

They also thought Bush is a moron throughout his administration and there was no way he'd be able to get anything done - and here we are after trillions of dollars of tax cuts, 2 conservative Supreme Court justices, in the middle of the war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan which are increasingly looking optimistic.

Dems in 2004 also thought Howard Dean had a good chance (right before he imploded, that is), they also thought Kerry's vietnam experience would propel him into the white house. The list goes on.

The point is, just because they think Huckabee is easy to defeat doesn't make it so. Their judgement is poor. And if Huckabee is so easy to defeat, why didn't they - the Clinton machine in Arkansas - do so when he ran for Lt Governor and then for re-election as Governor twice?

If anything, while New Yorkers and Californians may see a preacher who says things like "take this country back for Christ" as an extremist everyday folks including evangelicals who currently do not vote or get excited about elections will love him. And on the whole, this is a conservative nation.

I think Huckabee's positive message and positioning as someone moral and of faith, along with his uncanny ability to communicate can overcome the Dems attacks - that is if Republicans stop their vicious attacks and give the Dems a chance to step in and make their own.