Comments on: Huckabee: I Threaten GOP Elites (UPDATED Post)

By: Mike Huckabee » Blog Archive » Huckabee: I Threaten GOP Elites (UPDATED Post)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:50:50 +0000

[...] kladner wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptFormer Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is on the hustings trying to woo voters for tomorrow’s Michigan primary in what some believe could be a close contest and he has a new theme: he is a threat to the well-entrenched GOP establishment … [...]

By: aredmindinabluestate

aredmindinabluestate — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:29:01 +0000

Huckabee's latest, that the Constitution should be changed to meet God's standards, is abominable. Goldwater and Teddy Roosevelt, along with a host of others have warned us about injecting religion into politics. After W/DeLay/Barr/Lott, if Huckabee gets the nomination, Northern Republicans may become extinct. Will the last NY GOPer please shut out the lights?

By: DLS

DLS — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:19:02 +0000

“DLS, we'd appreciate it if you didn't call our bloggers names.”

They shouldn't earn them.

By: DLS

DLS — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:17:46 +0000

“prove it” [illogical additions removed]

The scummy picture; “heaven (he has connections there) and earth (they have connections there)”; “lies propagated by Christianists”; “Scientologist-inspired national sales tax), and an ideological christianist” … I needn't continue. You've wasted enough time.

By: Mike Huckabee » Rape, murder, and Mike Huckabee

Mike Huckabee » Rape, murder, and Mike Huckabee — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:09:49 +0000

[...] Michael Stickings wrote an interesting post today on Rape, murder, and Mike HuckabeeHere’s a quick excerptIn 2002, Murray Waas, one of America’s finest reporters, wrote an article for the Arkansas Times detailing how then-Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee secured the release from prison of convicted rapist Wayne Dumond. … [...]

By: Mike Huckabee » Blog Archive » Rape, murder, and Mike Huckabee

Mike Huckabee » Blog Archive » Rape, murder, and Mike Huckabee — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:00:52 +0000

[...] billgarcia wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptIn 2002, Murray Waas, one of America’s finest reporters, wrote an article for the Arkansas Times detailing how then-Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee secured the release from prison of convicted rapist Wayne Dumond. … [...]

By: EEllis

EEllis — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:35:12 +0000

There is a bit more to the case than anyone admits. One, the fact that the victim was a relative of Clinton only started to come up with the then Gov. Clinton overruled the recommendation of the parole board to commute the sentence of DuMond. Two, it became “cause celebre” among some Christians after DuMond had a religious conversion, not because of the Clinton connection. The evangelicals took issue with what they felt was bias in Clinton overruling the parole board on a case involving a relative. Three, It wasn't a strong case and there were many irregularities.
Dumond was castrated (attacked or self inflicted?) after the rape charge but before trial and St. Francis County sheriff publicly displayed DuMond's severed testicles and later flushed them down the toilet.
In 1987 a DNA test failed to show that DuMond was the rapist.
The victim picked several people out of photo arrays that “resembled” her rapist that in line ups she failed to pick out. She saw DuMond driving down the street and identified him as the rapist and was then able to pick him out of a line up.
The idea that there was some great conspiracy railroading this guy is a joke, but the parole board wanted to grant clemency while Clinton was still in office in Ark. It's no great evil going on with Huck getting DuMond parole. Just life and people trying to do what they think is right.

By: Holly_in_Cincinnati

Holly_in_Cincinnati — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:40:54 +0000

DLS, we'd appreciate it if you didn't call our bloggers names.

By: Jim_Satterfield

Jim_Satterfield — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:06:30 +0000

DLS, prove it when you call a writer on the blog something like that. Prove that Dumond was framed. Prove that it wasn't a lapse of judgment on the part of Huckabee to get him released. Prove that it wasn't all a delusion of the rabid Clinton haters of the right. Oh, that's right…you're one of those people who believe every word they spout, aren't you?

By: JSpencer

JSpencer — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:19:58 +0000

The points made about Huckabee are important, because they show why there are grounds for serious concern about his ability to form sound judgements, and also about his naivete when it comes to matters of foreign policy. I realize none of that matters to the ideologues who are willing to trade competence for what they perceive as one of their own, but as we've seen already, the country suffers greatly when such a low standard is adopted. I have no doubt that Huckabee is a decent, well-meaning fellow, but so is my neighbor up the road, and I don't want him for president either.

By: DLS

DLS — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:49:25 +0000

It's you who is the bigot (and worse) here. But this is nothing new.

As for Huckabee, his eventual role, if any, will likely be as Vice President.