Comments on: Is Dumond Huckabee’s Willie Horton?

By: SurgeJack

SurgeJack — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:21:43 +0000

That’s not a bomb-shell, though. That’s not even recent news. I’m surprised people can say they’ve been following this, but don’t know that very basic point about Huckabee. Wikipedia had this on his page for months now, and it was predated in tons of articles. Huckabee has always denied that he played a major role, and the facts have always demonstrated otherwise. It’s actually all fairly heinous, mind, the idea that he met with the rapist, understood his predicament, saw it as Clinton’s vindictiveness as he had raped a relative of Clinton’s, and then pushed to have him released so that, guess what, it turns out, he could go a’ rapin’ again…

By: Mike P.

Mike P. — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:12:35 +0000

Gotta say, given the circumstances as published at HuffPo today, this looks much, much worse, if that’s possible, than the “Willie Horton incident.”

I can’t imagine a candidate – especially one who hopes to capture the evangelical vote – winning the Republican primary, let alone the general, with this sort of thing as recent history. I can’t believe it but with this, Giulianni’s meltdown, Mitt’s tanking and Thompson’s complete absence, McCain, who I’ve always thought was the Republicans’ best hope of hanging on to the White House, may actually be able to pull off a win! That in spite of the hatred of the R base.

By: domajot

domajot — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:16:39 +0000

To be fair, victims are not necessarily experts in the psychology of rapists. and the ‘damaging evidence’ Waas uncovered consists merely of the opinons of victims.

Trying to hide the warnings, however, was not an exercise in forthrightness. Politically, this could be damaging.

More damaging in my view is that Huckabee pudhed for the early release of the rapist. Did he not think that rape was a serious crime?
Had he studied how difficult it is to rehabilitate rapists?