The far right has never trusted Huckabee. He did the unthinkable while governor: Raised taxes to build better roads. Long ago he commuted the sentence of the guy who killed four cops and the right is piling on. Some have the agenda of clearing the decks for Sarah. Others just never liked Mike.The picture above is not a hoax or photoshop. I went to the Ames straw poll for Huckabee in August 2007. Huckabee's strong second place showing knocked out Kansas Senator Sam Brownback and set up his win in the Iowa caucuses.
Who came in first in the straw poll? Romney. That's amazing since Romney now blames Iowa anti-mormonism on his loss in the caucuses.
He commuted the sentence in 2000 of Maurice Clemons, the 37-year -old man who murdered four Seattle police officers in cold blood over the weekend. Clemons had been serving a 108-year prison sentence for armed robbery and other offenses, but claimed to be a changed man and, according to his pastor, had found God. That was said to carry great weight with Huckabee, who is himself a Baptist minister.
ReplyDeleteBut conservatives are strict law-and-order types. Not Huckabee, apparently. Of course Huckabee would not have freed Clemons had he known what lay in store. Yet it boggles the mind that Huckabee let Clemons walk, knowing what he knew about him. It brings to mind Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, who let convicted murderer Willie Horton out on a weekend furlough. And we know how that story ended.