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Mike Huckabee is out there attacking his attackers. "“It really does show how sick our society has become that people are more concerned about a campaign three years from now than those grieving families in Washington." No, Mr. Huckster, that's not it at all. The fact is that the time to think about the grieving families in Washington would have been IN ADVANCE, so they wouldn't be grieving. Gov. Huckster faced PLENTY of opposition back home to his outrageous clemency policies, and he was warned that violent criminals become recidivists. In other words, he was warned that turning violent offenders loose would create more victims, more grieving families. But he thought he knew better. He thought he, the high and mighty, could tell when a violent offender had "found God" and that such a finding could override the duly enacted decisions of judges and juries, based on duly enacted legislation. Well, he was wrong -- and that is WHY there are now some grieving families in Washington. Of course Huck is not directly responsible for the cop killings; only Mr. Clemmons is. But Huck is responsible for Mr. Clemmons being free. Yes, parole boards let Clemmons free -- but only AFTER Huck's clemencies made it possible for them to do so. Without his commutation of Clemmons' sentence, my understanding is that Clemmons would not have been even eleigbile for parole until 2015.
(I must say, parenthetically, that the efforts of Sean Hannity and others to defend the Huckster are disappointing. They would NEVER have tried defending a lefty who made so many of the same decisions that Huck did.)
Finally, Huck's last quote in the linked story was this: “People are talking about this from a political standpoint, but what they need to be asking is how did the system break down?” What a pathetic weasel. No, "the system" didn't break down, Mr. Governor. YOU intervened in the system and it was your intervention that set in motion any other breakdowns that occurred. This isn't political, it's moral. You, Mr. Huck, did the wrong thing. You did it repeatedly, for numerous violent offenders. And now you try to dodge your share of responsibility for it.
For shame.
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Yosemeti Sam| 12.2.09 @ 1:13PM
" To Huck: See Rock; Then Crawl Under It -- Please"
May said rock be his political sepulcher.
Course he can still strum a guitar under there.
Tim| 12.2.09 @ 1:18PM
Has ANYTHING good ever come out of Arkansas government?
BamaDeb| 12.2.09 @ 1:35PM
There was always something about Mr. Huckabee that I did not like. Never could put my finger on it. I think I know now!
Margie| 12.2.09 @ 1:56PM
What I don't understand is why you keep calling it a clemency when it was not. It was a commutation of an over 100 yr. prison sentence to a 40-something yr. sentence, commuted to 11 yrs. served time. The kid was a 16 yr. old at the time. He wasn't in for murder but at that time it was robbery (not armed), and burglary.
I don't know about Huckabee's other sins in this area, but if these are the real facts concerning this particular case, why are you still calling it a clemency, etc.? Do you just not like the man and that's why you're doing this?
~I also heard Hannity's show and he sure didn't seem to be defending him.
~I am not pro-Huck either. He wouldn't have my vote for nomination of Pres. because he's rather liberal. When I first read all the blogs here the other day, the way they were written condemning him about this particular case, I went with the condemning. But then I got the facts. I'm into the truth. Let the chips fall where they may.
Derek Leaberry| 12.2.09 @ 2:12PM
900+ clemencies and commutations. Spoke at the Arkansas La Raza. Supported illegal immigration and the ethnic transformation of the country. Raised taxes. Big spender. Yankee accent. There's a lot to dislike in Huckabee. Glad he's finished as a national poltician.
Mark J. Goluskin| 12.2.09 @ 2:24PM
This is eternal justice for the Rev. Mike. I am sorry, but the man is a charlatan. He spent a whole presidential campaign bashing Mitt Romney, impuning his religion in ways that should have had him out of the presidential campaign. But, hey, the Rev. Mike was Mormon-bashing. So it is OK, right?! So typical of this guy. I never got the attraction to him. So he is a Christian, a minister, and has an R after his name. Policy after policy he is to the left of the national party. And on crime, well I think one Rudy Guiliani could teach him a thing or two.
JP| 12.2.09 @ 2:38PM
“People are talking about this from a political standpoint, but what they need to be asking is how did the system break down?”
And this man wishes to be President someday. Mr Clemmons became political the very minute a politician (then Govenor Huckabee) granted him clemency. Politics is applied morality, and Govenor Huckabee wishes to be seen as a kind of moral vanguard. But, it was his personal morality (the granting to a violent felon clemency his freedom) that created this "tragedy".
To accuse people of only seeing the politics of the policemen's murders is akin to accusing congressmen of playing politics when writing laws.
Pat| 12.2.09 @ 3:00PM
Mr. Hillyer, Huckabee did not release a violent criminal. He allowed someone to apply for parole after serving 11 years in state prison on a ridiculous 108-year sentence for non-violent property crimes committed when he was a minor. The judges in Washington were the ones who knew he had a violent record and released him. So either you are flailing the man for not having a working crystal ball, or else you think 108 years without parole is a reasonable sentence for a teenager's nonviolent theft crimes.
Fine. Since I assume you are a defender of the Constitution, equal protection, etc. , I would like to make a challenge you to take a solemn oath that if one of your own precious snowflakes ever does anything remotely illegal -- borrows a car without permission, say, to go "joyriding" - that you will insist it be prosecuted as grand theft and your child sentenced to 108 years in prison with no hope of parole, on the off chance that many years from now, he or she might get out and go on a killing spree.
If you won't do that, then you are a hypocrite. If you will do that, then you are a bonehead. Wish I could say that your writing had given me a third option, but I can't think of one.
doug| 12.2.09 @ 3:59PM
Did you forget the other guy Huck finagled clemency for who got out raped (again) and killed?
Big Jim| 12.2.09 @ 4:27PM
Under the law robbery and burglary are violent crimes whether or not a weapon is used. It seems, however, that under the facts of this case, what Huck did was not unreasonable because the punishment was unreasonable. The judges responsible for letting the guy out on bail knowing his long criminal past should be the focus of everyones anger. There are many reasons not to like Huck, such as the screed about a sick society mentioned in the article. I don't like him and would never support him, but I will be fair to him.
Margie| 12.2.09 @ 5:12PM
Exactly. The Left employs the tactic of demonizing those they don't like. It's not a matter of liking or not liking someone. It's a matter of the facts, the truth. That should be served.
S.L. Toddard| 12.2.09 @ 5:52PM
Exactly! The right would never demonize a politician they didn't like. And if you don't believe me, ask Barack Hussein Obama, the Evil Kenyan Nazi-Stalinist Manchuriate Candidate/Crypto-Islamic Terrorist Who Hates America And Wants To Take Our Freedoms. He never got demonized at all.
Margie| 12.2.09 @ 6:45PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y
Nick| 12.2.09 @ 11:28PM
Mr. Toddard,
Don't you claim to be a member of the Right?
S.L. Toddard| 12.3.09 @ 8:08AM
Of course. That is why I oppose Obama based on his statist policies instead of demonizing him as an Evil Kenyan Nazi-Stalinist Manchuriate Candidate/Crypto-Islamic Terrorist Who Hates America And Wants To Take Our Freedoms.
Nick| 12.3.09 @ 10:31AM
Mr. Toddard,
Calling President Dither's policies "statist" would be called "demonizing" by those on the left. It is also very judgemental. (Ha-ha)
I guess it depends on whose ox is being gored, does it not?
Demonizing is in the eye of the beholder.
SoCon| 12.3.09 @ 4:11PM
Nailed the liar/hypocrite, Nick; Toddard's the biggest judgmental moron of all!
Derek Leaberry| 12.2.09 @ 5:02PM
By reading about the criminal's record of violence and making a personal observation of the man, a wise man can figure out whether a criminal should stay behind bars or be set free. Mike Huckabee, by playing up the redemptive side of his Christianity without regard to the conservative ability to judge a man's character, or lack thereof, sternly and objectively, decided to play god. Huckabee did it so often that if his name was, say, Bill Clinton, he would have been politically crucified by all decent conservatives. No, Mike Huckabee made a fetish out of turning loose violent criminals long before their time. He richly deserves to suffer the political consequences.
John Allen| 12.2.09 @ 5:36PM
Huckabee's slime drenched defense of himself should not surprise anyone. During his thankfully failed primary bid for the Republican nomination Huckabee repeated a filthy evangelical slur designed to imply that Mormons worship Lucifer (read: Satan) and then claimed ignorance in the matter.
The problem being that he has spent his life surrounded by evangelical ministers who repeat the same bile over and over again. He knew exactly what he was implying in the New York Times. When he was called on it he lied.
It is a well established pattern with him. But he comes from a culture where it is ok to lie about other people if you are doing it for your twisted version of God.
Mormonism is whacky enough on its own without the need to resort to lies and distortions against it. The people Huckabee surrounds himself with, however, find that it is ok to lie if the lie is more effective than the truth.
SoCon| 12.2.09 @ 5:41PM
I'm just glad the slippery 'Compassionate Conservative' RINO is finished politically: Stick a fork in Hucksterbee, he's done!
S.L. Toddard| 12.2.09 @ 5:48PM
I'd like to formally object to Mr. Hillyer making sense and depriving me of an opportunity to attack his reasoning. It's extremely inconsiderate.
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