Mike Huckabee Can Survive the Maurice Clemmons Pardon Problem

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In case you haven't noticed, Rob, Chief MORON of Washington, Mike Huckabee survived the mini-brouhaha over the Clemmons issue because some people, unlike YOU, MORON, got it. Using your warped mentality and reasoning, I guess we should go back to Clemmons MOTHER and cuss her out for not ABORTING HIM. It's all HER fault! SHE did it! SHE killed those four police officers! If it hadn't been for her giving birth to him, they would still be alive today!

You make about as much sense. What happens NINE YEARS AFTER THE FACT OF A PAROLE BOARD, NOT HUCKABEE, releasing this now deservingly DEAD criminal is a combination of screw-ups by far more than Huckabee. He commuted what was then a RIDICULOUS sentence for 106 years for common burglary and theft. The guy had already served 11 years!! NO ONE KNEW BACK THEN that almost a DECADE LATER, he would be a cop killer, you MORON.

He did what was right AT THE TIME. What happened later was CLEMMONS fault, and his fault alone. The entire SYSTEM failed us, and at the end, Washington failed to hold him on a rape charge. THAT is why those decent officers lost their lives to this maniac. You want to beat someone up? GO AFTER THE JUDGES IN YOUR OWN STATE, MORON.

When Mike Huckabee becomes President -- and if he wants it, he will make it -- he will clean a lot of these messes up. While he will make mistakes, NOT electing him instead of OBAMA is the WORST mistake America could possibly make. At least he has EXPERIENCE GOVERNING, which is more than I can say for the clown in the White House now.

You are an IDIOT. Thanks for writing, and removing all doubt.

Ricky David Tripp of AR 12:50AM January 21, 2010

You are full of it, and it is spelled Tacoma. We would love for Hucksterbee to come pay us a visit.

Bobo Sanchez of WA 10:11PM January 05, 2010

The left has rolled out a tumbrel for Huckabee,Palin ,Rush ,the man who asked the most inconvenient of questions-Joe the Plumber & anyone that shares their concern for America's 10 months of retreat on all fronts-the wage of the moderate's sin last November.Funny how the left wails to get mass murderers sentences commuted or that of a bad seed that killed his little sister (he was "trying out" a wrestling hold) because he was only 11 and the "right" color.Free him ,he has suffered enough they cried.When that soul-less sociopath is free to walk among us ,God help anyone that doesn't hear him creep up from behind-if they are not packing.May hell receive him him if they are...

Talbert of TX 1:10AM December 13, 2009

What do you mean Mike Huckabee can Survive this.... he already has... check out the polls getting ready to come out hot on thursday.... those of you saying huckabee is toast need to put the toast away and eat your crow.... The majority sure loves the Huckabee

Chris Lacks of VA 12:22AM December 09, 2009

Thanks Mr. Farrell for enlightening your lowly readers as to what the Golden Rule is.

Schifter of CA 11:40PM December 08, 2009

No, I don't think he can survive his gross error in clemency for Clemmons. Today the support at the memorial service is huge but these same attendees also would condemn Huchabee's decision. Leave him to preach and save people through his ministry and leave politics and major decisions to someone with a better sense of judgment and spare the lives of the men and women law enforcement officers.

Lin McKay of WA 5:28PM December 08, 2009

Huckabee is a joke, He should do his stupid show in washington.

Beau of WA 3:49PM December 08, 2009

Dear MORAN from WA:

Get your facts straight. You are a perfect example on one with a pre-ordained mind set refusing to really LISTEN to the other side. Mike has owned up to his failure - that of giving a break to a 16 year old given an unusual punishment of 170 (APPROX) years for a robbery and assult charge. He commutted the boys sentence to less than half: the parole board and others took it from there. If we could predict who will become killers , law enforcers would have a much better success rate.

Judy Unnasch of IL 11:53AM December 07, 2009

Besides Clemens, how many monsters did he let loose on America's citizens? 7 of them have already been re-arrested for other assorted horrible crimes and repeat offenses, and 3 they have no-idea where they are. Clemens killed 4 policemen! They all had families and CHILDREN! CAN HUCKABEE GIVE THEM THEIR LIVES BACK? Then Huckabee has the gall to put the blame on GOD?!

MAKE HIM LEAVE!

Alienist of PA 11:14AM December 07, 2009

A teenage kid in Arkansas,

Guilty of unarmed robbery,

Jailed a decade under the law,

Imperfect system, he goes free

To Washington State, where alleged

He murders four cops in cold blood -

A bad boy bet that went unhedged?

Ex-governor caught in the flood

Of blame this guy should still be jailed,

Doing the hundred years fromm teen.

Then the system would not have failed.

His future would have been forseen.

People grow up committing crimes,

More and more and more of the times.

Ima Ryma of IL 4:34AM December 07, 2009

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John A. Farrell

John A. Farrell

John Aloysius Farrell is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. An award-winning Washington reporter, he has written for The Boston Globe and The Denver Post and is the author of Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century and an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow.

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