Huckabee Pardons Cop Killer

[Budmantom]

What's sad is that this guy was let out time and again, yet some guy who likes to smoke pot is tossed in with people like him, well, the pot smoker is tossed in with him until he gets his sentence commuted.

Personally, child rapists should *NEVER* be let out. The recidivism rate is far too high.

Wht kind of a liberal are you?

 

[Thump553]

I don't put a whole lot of fault on Huckabee for his initial pardon, after all mistakes happen even with the best systems that hindsight make look foolish. But yesterday Huckabee issued a statement which basically avoided all responsiblity on his part and was a generic blame on the parole/pardon system. To that I say shame on him, and am disappointed in his failure to man up and that responsibiility for his decisions. Definately not the sort of personal integrity I expect in someone who wants to sit the President's seat. Hopefully he stays in his laughable talk show on Fox.

 

[Wreckage]

Whether Huck is to blame or not is irrelevant. Especially since there were a number of mistakes involved. However, this will come back to haunt him if he does indeed run in the primaries. Not just this incident, but his record in general involving these cases.

It will hurt his chances.

 

[Pens1566]

Huck has some interesting history with the pardons ... quite a bit more prolific than other Ark. governors. It seems as if you "find god" you're good to go.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

I don't put a whole lot of fault on Huckabee for his initial pardon, after all mistakes happen even with the best systems that hindsight make look foolish. But yesterday Huckabee issued a statement which basically avoided all responsiblity on his part and was a generic blame on the parole/pardon system. To that I say shame on him, and am disappointed in his failure to man up and that responsibiility for his decisions. Definately not the sort of personal integrity I expect in someone who wants to sit the President's seat. Hopefully he stays in his laughable talk show on Fox.

He commuted a sentence based on a parole boards's recomendation. Since then the guy has been in and out of the prison system in multiple states. I think he is absolutely correct to lay the blame on others. This is not his failure. He's just the biggest name and the first link in a long chain. This is about selling news papers, not about the truth.

 

[AstroManLuca]

he found god after he killed the cops? hummmm i must have missed that. can you point that out to me?

Correction: He met God. Or more appropriately the devil. Or whatever.

 

[OutHouse]

Agree, it should read something like "suspect in cop shooting had sentence commuted by Huckabee 9 years ago."

yes i also agree. the way this tread title reads and lots of other news papers it gives the impression that the guy was released from prison hours before he killed the cops. OP is a tool.

 

[stateofbeasley]

Whether Huck is to blame or not is irrelevant. Especially since there were a number of mistakes involved. However, this will come back to haunt him if he does indeed run in the primaries. Not just this incident, but his record in general involving these cases.

It will hurt his chances.

I think this will sink Huckabee's chances in any GOP primary.

Why?

Because the whole fiasco creates a very simple but awful narrative that fits into commercial sound bites.

It would go something like this:

"Huckabee commuted the sentence of a violent criminal. The criminal went on to murder 4 honorable police officers. Huckabee freed a cop-killer. Huckabee: soft on crime. Would you trust this man to keep us safe?"

Imagine that played over and over again on TV, and on the Radio, with grim music playing in the background. It's the scary sort of narrative that will stick in the minds of a public already nervous about crime and terrorism. It has a demon of a bad guy, and puts Huckabee on the side of the bad guy.

Considering that most voters often don't bother to dig too deeply into the issues, they are going to hold this against Huckabee, regardless of whether it is deserved or not.

 

[Schadenfroh]

This will bite him in 2012, might even destroy him, even though the hell he will be catching is undeserved based on his role in this.

This thread's title is also a bit misleading.

 

[Skitzer]

Commuted sentence ≠ Pardon.

 

[Patranus]

Can we please either get this troll thread closed or its title changed?

Huckabee lower the sentence from something like 100 years to 48. The parole board paroled him. The parole board paroled him again after he violated his parole.

It goes on and on.

There were many mis-steps by the legal system.

I just find it funny that liberals get their panties in a bunch of people under 18 being charged as adults and other things along those lines but then rail Huckabee over this when he had little if nothing to do with this crime. Huckabee didn't let this man out of jail, the parole board did.

 

[Vic]

Willie Horton indeed!

 

[chowderhead]

Huckabee has a history of shifting blame after someone he helped let out of prison commits more crimes.
See Wayne Dumond.
http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=154e1aad-fd18-4efd-8d80-b5dab8559419

 

[Patranus]

Huckabee has a history of shifting blame after someone he helped let out of prison commits more crimes.
See Wayne Dumond.
http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=154e1aad-fd18-4efd-8d80-b5dab8559419

I am pretty sure that Huckabee didn't let anyone out of prison rather the parole board let him out of prison...but nice try.

When he violated parole the first time in Arkansas why did he get parole a second time? a third time?

Why did a judge give him 15k bail when he had something like +8 felonies pending against him? Why did a second judge sign off on the bail.

The fact of the matter is that Huckabee is being held responsible because it is the politically damaging thing to do.

On another note, Huckabee is the only one involve who has acknowledged any sort of responsibility. The others have refused comment.

 

[Generator]

Ah good ol' Huck deserved better than this to go out. Aside from his shitkicker thoughts on science, he was a rather decent candidate.