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As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee aggressively pushed for the early release of a convicted rapist despite being warned by numerous women that the convict had sexually assaulted them or their family members, and would likely strike again. The convict went on to rape and murder at least one other woman.

Confidential Arkansas state government records, including letters from these women, obtained by the Huffington Post and revealed publicly for the first time, directly contradict the version of events now being put forward by Huckabee.

While on the campaign trail, Huckabee has claimed that he supported the 1999 release of Wayne Dumond because, at the time, he had no good reason to believe that the man represented a further threat to the public. Thanks to Huckabee's intervention, conducted in concert with a right-wing tabloid campaign on Dumond's behalf, Dumond was let out of prison 25 years before his sentence would have ended.But the confidential files obtained by the Huffington Post show that Huckabee was provided letters from several women who had been sexually assaulted by Dumond and who indeed predicted that he would rape again - and perhaps murder - if released.[..]

Huckabee kept these and other documents secret because they were politically damaging, according to a former aide who worked for him in Arkansas. The aide has made the records available to the Huffington Post, deeply troubled by Huckabee's repeated claims that he had no reason to believe Dumond would commit other violent crimes upon his release from prison. The aide also believes that Huckabee, for political reasons, has deliberately attempted to cover up his knowledge of Dumond's other sexual assaults.

In 1996, as a newly elected governor who had received strong support from the Christian right, Huckabee was under intense pressure from conservative activists to pardon Dumond or commute his sentence. The activists claimed that Dumond's initial imprisonment and various other travails were due to the fact that Ashley Stevens, the high school cheerleader he had raped, was a distant cousin of Bill Clinton, then the governor of Arkansas, and the daughter of a major Clinton campaign contributor.

Holy cow, it's unbelievable how far the right wing's obsession about the Clenis goes. Huckabee is desperately trying to put daylight between himself and Dumond because Dumond's release was all about discrediting Clinton. Again. Hillary was spot on right about that "vast right wing conspiracy". And the saddest thing is I don't know that Huckabee's base would be as concerned about these kind of ethical issues to not vote for him. Do they care about Huckabee's complete lack of knowledge of the Iranian NIE? Or evolution? Let's face it, the bar for Republican understanding has been set pretty low.

UPDATE: Huckabee: God Responsible for My Rise in Polls Oy.

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Pete Bogs's picture

maybe Chuck Norris can "silence" those rape victims?

L.A. Confidential's picture

One year left of Bush

MargeAggedon's picture

No one in their right mind would vote for this backwards, head-up-his-ass moron. Which explains his supporters.

Dr. Acula's picture

Another good xian! They are a pox on our country.

The bar for the republican party has been set so low that you have to dig to find it. They don't care about the law or criminals, all they care or cared about was bringing down Bill Clinton. I've said all along that Hillary was right about this. For whatever warped reason that freaky right wing group just couldn't live with Bill Clinton as president.

Some times I wonder if they aren't more than some religious group, but something much more criminal than that with aim at a much larger target and simply using religion as a shield.

tyree's picture

Huckabee is the original douchbag of freedom!!!!!!!!!

Johnny2Bad's picture

I'm shocked...shocked to find that politics is going on in here.

(Yawn)

xxx's picture

Huckabee only looked better than the other republicans because I didn't know anything about him. the "saviour" of the republicans releases rapists for political expediency? What a good christian.

JW's picture

One of Huckabee's campaign staff runs an "evangelical" blog and there is interesting discussion about the Dumond issue there.

It seems they are more concerned about Huckabee being too much of a tax & spend liberal than character issues related the fact he released a dangerous criminal for political reasons.

www.evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/004103.html

Mr. Anon's picture

It isn't rape if the victim is a Clinton.

tyree's picture

should huckabee suddenly die , im sure he will take his place alongside of jerry fallwell whos down on his knees at this very moment humming onward christian soldiers on belzabubs boneyphone!

Bonkers's picture

If yewwww stoopid libruls din't allas haveta molly-coddle them criminals when they wuz young, we wouldn't HAVE rapists an' killers an' welfare moms!

Heheheh! Pwned, you stooopid tree huggers. Vote Huckabee!

Bud's picture

Kind of scary he's standing at a podium with a Nickelodeon logo...

below_me's picture

i guess the next logical question is:

who would jesus rape?

a guy's picture

Good job, St. Mike! Too bad this isn't Saudi Arabia. Then you could have had Clinton's cousin be horsewhipped for being raped. Another example of the hypocritical "Religious Right". More like the hypocritical "Vindictive Assholes"!

Joementum's picture

If Huck ever starts to look like a serious candidate, this story will put an end to it.

He's created his own Willie Horton.

ferd_berfle's picture

pissed off patricia @ 5:

For whatever warped reason that freaky right wing group just couldn't live with Bill Clinton as president.

Two words, bubba- Larry Craig. Monica got what they wanted. That's what they couldn't live with...Twisted? You betcha!

PassedPawn's picture

As long as this country is Chock full o'Nuts, creeps like huckabee will do just fine.

sharkcellar's picture

Better yet, I would say that the bar for understanding republicans has been set pretty damn high. I don't understand them at all!

ysbaddaden's picture

Clenis the penis

The one eyed critter

Spits ya in the eye

When you treat him bitter.

Dhalgren's picture

Let's not be too cynical. This scandal is easy to understand. Freeing a rapist who then committed at least one murder is very easy for even the most ignorant trailer trash to understand. This scandal will prevent Huckabee from entering the White House.

Whereas Giuliani - no scandal can sink him.

Dhalgren's picture

If Huck ever starts to look like a serious candidate, this story will put an end to it.

Without a doubt. No question.

Or else we Dems are owed one huge apology for the presecution of Bill Clinton, which we will never get.

Matt in Texas's picture

Typical Christian Hypocrite. Too bad we can't throw them all to the lions anymore. Of course, we'd be guilty of animal cruelty!

How come assholes like Huckabee can get away with this? If Clinton had done anything even approaching this, this would lead every news report in all media.

Gregg's picture

To defend empty space one needs empty threats. Clinton seemed to serve them well.

They seem content to walk the plank while cursing the rest of the crew.

ralph's picture

He tells a joke better than any of the Dems. But, who is the joke on if there are people who take him seriously?

Tim's picture

Wow, what a story. It needs to be repeated early and often.

Huckabee: just another Christian hypocrite.

seagull.girl's picture

JW @ 9:

One of Huckabee's campaign staff runs an "evangelical" blog and there is interesting discussion about the Dumond issue there.

It seems they are more concerned about Huckabee being too much of a tax & spend liberal than character issues related the fact he released a dangerous criminal for political reasons.

I took a look at this...they seemed far more interested in promoting Huckabee as a "good Christian man" and arguing the "merits" of Rush L.

www.evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/004103.html

liberalista's picture

They are myopic in their hatred of Clinton. Clinton showed that you can have a robust peace-time economy while still taking care of the poor and maintaining a strong middle class. It flies in the face of all that the wingnuts believe. That's why they can't stand Social Security, Medicare, and public education. All massive government run programs that work well and help people. That's why they have to keep screaming about how these programs are about to fail.

goatsage's picture

So, can we now assume that all Americans who still support Republicans are truly vile, corrupt individuals or just plain ignorant human beings?

Dumonds'nuts's picture

Did Huckleberry destroy the hard Drives of his govs' office?

liberalNmoderation's picture

pissed off patricia @ 5:

The bar for the republican party has been set so low that you have to dig to find it. They don't care about the law or criminals, all they care or cared about was bringing down Bill Clinton. I've said all along that Hillary was right about this. For whatever warped reason that freaky right wing group just couldn't live with Bill Clinton as president.

Some times I wonder if they aren't more than some religious group, but something much more criminal than that with aim at a much larger target and simply using religion as a shield.

Me too, I don't have to try very hard to not buy into any of the ultra-paranoid conspiracy theories....but damn if some of them theories ain't hitting pretty close to what appears to be goin on. Whatever happens in the near future...it's gonna be friggin history making. I just hope that it's good stuff comin our way...not all this evil shit I've been reading about.

Lollimom's picture

You know, this just isn't "politics" to me. It's a pattern of criminal behavior by the republicans.

I still feel this party should be destroyed. It's nothing but a party of liars, cheats, treasonous scum, manipulators of elections, and judging from how many people have been killed under republican lies...well, you put a name to it.

StirFry's picture

ysbaddaden @ 20:

Clenis the penis

The one eyed critter

Spits ya in the eye

When you treat him bitter.

lol. a Clenis haiku !

Bonkers's picture

You know, you don't have to LIKE Clinton to be sick of this obsession with him. If I were a thinking Republican, I'd be embarassed by now. Of course, that reminds me of a joke I heard once:

"A reasonable Republican, a psychotic, scoreboard-watching Republican, and Santa Claus were walking down the street together. They spotted a dollar lying on the sidewalk. Who picked it up?"

;P

ysbaddaden's picture

33 StirFry

Just came off the top of my head with the dandruff, and what remains of my hair.

Why does Clinton always have the contented smile of a cat who's gotten into the cream?

joe cantwell's picture

even the trolls can't (or won't) defend huck!

LPD's picture

pissed off patricia @ 5:

The bar for the republican party has been set so low that you have to dig to find it. They don't care about the law or criminals, all they care or cared about was bringing down Bill Clinton. I've said all along that Hillary was right about this. For whatever warped reason that freaky right wing group just couldn't live with Bill Clinton as president.

Some times I wonder if they aren't more than some religious group, but something much more criminal than that with aim at a much larger target and simply using religion as a shield.

It's hard to tell anymore what they are except insanely obsessed with "getting" Bill & therefore Hillary. Sounds very cultish to me. I just knew somehow they'd say this is Hillary's fault because it was all Bill's fault, don'tcha know. Didn't quite know how their Crazy Train would arrive at the usual destination but I knew they'd get there. And this guy is using his "Christian" religious beliefs as his most important qualification to be President. How would Jesus trash Bill Clinton?

Chopvac's picture

Let’s face it, the bar for Republican understanding has been set pretty low.

That's no surprise. Slime lives close to the ground anyway.

sagra's picture

There's one attack ad that practically writes itself.

Dana's picture

Put Wayne DuMond in the Wikipedia search engine and it takes you
directly to Mike Huckabee.

centralilgirl's picture

I can't wait to hear O'leily's, Limpballs and coultergiest's explanation of this one. I'm sure it will sound something like.......but, but Clinton. Sheeshe.

Filthy Harry's picture

The really sick part is that these so-called conservatives wanted this guy released not because they believed he DID NOT rape this cheerleader, but because EVEN THOUGH he raped her, the fact of her relationship to Clinton made him sympathetic in their eyes and his punishment undeserved.

That is just beyond disgusting and sickening.

StirFry's picture

ysbaddaden @ 35:

33 StirFry

Just came off the top of my head with the dandruff, and what remains of my hair.

Why does Clinton always have the contented smile of a cat who's gotten into the cream?

He gets a kick out the of the republicans keeping the bill clinton flame alive...or he's thinking of a really filthy joke.

GSD's picture

Rightwing brain logic:

Myopic, blind hatred of Bill Clinton=good.

Justified, morally indignation and dislike of George W. Bush=myopic, blind hatred.

-GSD

Lakeguy's picture

"Lets face it, the bar for Repuglican understanding has been set pretty low."

After I heard that some of the candidates don't believe in evolution, I thought that the bar had been thrown away never to be seen again. They are either crooks, liars, morons or all of the above...

leftminded's picture

Can't run on the law and order platform now can he?

joe cantwell's picture

what i don't understand is why huck huckabee, who claims to be a man of jesus, doesn't go to these women and their families on his hands and knees and beg for forgiveness. i guess johnny2bad is right; it's politics and he's just another politician.

Josh's picture

ysbaddaden @ 35:

33 StirFry

Just came off the top of my head with the dandruff, and what remains of my hair.

Why does Clinton always have the contented smile of a cat who's gotten into the cream?

Because he doesn't have the billion dollar smirk that the guy in office does; probably because Clinton was lower middle-class and was smart enough to make it to the Presidency on all of his own merit, but the guy in office had millions of his daddy's stock while he was only in little league.

i'd take content smile over smirk anyday.

Doggiebobo's picture

Come on guys and gals...don't ya know that Huckabee is the "wet dream" of the
ultra conservative, religous, right-wing nuts. He is supposedly their savior because
he is, as he has repeatedly stated; " I am the most Christian person of all the candidates."
"HOG WASH", is the term them-there reasonable persons in Arkansas would say..

Josh's picture

Doggiebobo @ 49:

Come on guys and gals...don't ya know that Huckabee is the "wet dream" of the
ultra conservative, religous, right-wing nuts. He is supposedly their savior because
he is, as he has repeatedly stated; " I am the most Christian person of all the candidates."
"HOG WASH", is the term them-there reasonable persons in Arkansas would say..

Most Christian meaning: most 'aw-shucks' completely oblivious to what it takes to run a Country, but it's ok cuz he thinks the Earth is only 6000 years old.

NIE report, what's that? But I stayed at a holiday inn express last night!

My GOD America!

Old Billy's picture

Huckabee knew exactly who he was releasing on an unsuspecting public. When Dumond was paroled, it was under the condition that he leave the state of Aransas (the Natural State, I believe, by the way.) If Huckabee was convinced that Dumond posed no risk, why did he demand he leave his state?

grumpyoldvet's picture

I knew it...........It's all Clenis' fault

Old Billy's picture

Doggiebobo @ 49:

"HOG WASH", is the term them-there reasonable persons in Arkansas would say..

Soooooooo-weeeeeeeeee!!!!!

Sorry, you said Arkansas and Hogs in the same sentence right before the bowl games start up.

PS I don't think they actually wash any hogs in Arkansas.

Old Billy's picture

By the way, I heard that Hillary Clinton personally gang-raped and strangled Vincent Foster because he was going to expose her secrets regarding investments in health care companies which were supposed to be in a blind-trust but weren't. I don't have the evidence yet, but we have a crack team of photoshop experts investigative journalists working on it right now.

Doggiebobo's picture

Josh @ 50:

Doggiebobo @ 49:

Come on guys and gals...don't ya know that Huckabee is the "wet dream" of the
ultra conservative, religous, right-wing nuts. He is supposedly their savior because
he is, as he has repeatedly stated; " I am the most Christian person of all the candidates."
"HOG WASH", is the term them-there reasonable persons in Arkansas would say..

Most Christian meaning: most 'aw-shucks' completely oblivious to what it takes to run a Country, but it's ok cuz he thinks the Earth is only 6000 years old.

You are correct Josh. Huckabee visited the Creation Museum in Pittsburg, Tennessee
in the recent past and received the tour of that facility; including seeing a replica of
Noah's Ark on which man/woman and dinasours survived since they co-existed together
ONLY 6,000 years ago. What imbicels and narrow minded idiots.

Knuckabee's picture

But it was O.K. that Huckabee freed the rapist, because he was a

BORN AGAIN rapist!

AMEN!

snark snark

moondancer's picture

New Rule:

No more presidents from Arkansas until they get indoor plumbing. Huckabees' a flat earther. Any adult that cannot reconcile his religious beliefs with modern science is not fit for prime time. If it is lip service(his belief in creationism) that should disqualify him as well. Anybody that cynical is banned from the highest office.

ckerst's picture

Got to love that old time religion. It was good enough for the repugnacans and it's good enough for Huckabee. A Abaptist minister huh, imagine that.

liberalista's picture

Filthy Harry @ 42:

The really sick part is that these so-called conservatives wanted this guy released not because they believed he DID NOT rape this cheerleader, but because EVEN THOUGH he raped her, the fact of her relationship to Clinton made him sympathetic in their eyes and his punishment undeserved.

That is just beyond disgusting and sickening.

Hear hear.

Scott in Chicago's picture

Willy Horton anyone?

It's Me's picture

The vast Right Wing conspiracy of lies to bash the Clintons extends well into the mainstream media, too.

This was finally printed on page 18 of the Los Angeles Times today. "Misconstrued"? That's being awfully polite. The mainstream media out-and-out LIED about Clinton not publicly opposing the war in Iraq from the very beginning:
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Clinton says his Iraq war remarks were misconstrued
The former president, in a campaign swing in New Hampshire on behalf of his wife, also defends her attacks on Obama.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-billclinton5dec05,0...
By Michael Finnegan
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

9:01 PM PST, December 4, 2007

LEBANON, N.H. — A week after causing his wife's presidential campaign a headache by saying he had opposed the Iraq war from the start, former President Clinton accused the news media on Tuesday of misrepresenting his remarks.

In brief comments to the Los Angeles Times, the former president also defended Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's attacks this week on Sen. Barack Obama, her chief rival for the Democrats' White House nomination.

"She has been steadily attacked publicly and privately by candidates and surrogates for months," Clinton said after giving a speech here.

He said the accuracy of his wife's statements slamming Obama's record as a state and U.S. senator "has never been disputed," but did not mention the Illinois lawmaker by name. "Why don't we just have a little debate? She didn't do anything wrong."

Clinton's comments came as he wrapped up a daylong solo campaign swing for his wife in snowbound towns of New Hampshire. The New York senator this week has hammered Obama's record on healthcare, Social Security, Iran and his history of voting "present" rather than "yes" or "no" in the Illinois Senate.

"I know there's a lot of dispute among the candidates now," the former president told students packed into an auditorium at Keene State University. "I actually think that's kind of healthy. I didn't like it very much for months, because it was just a one-way street. At least it's getting balanced up a bit."

In Keene, Claremont and Lebanon, Clinton called his wife the best candidate to address global warming, healthcare, education and the day-to-day economic hardships of the middle class.

He also reminisced about New Hampshire's role in reviving his troubled White House candidacy in 1992, when accusations of draft-dodging and an extramarital affair with Gennifer Flowers dogged him in the primary.

"Some of you who were around in '92 may remember that this part of New Hampshire saved my proverbial bacon," Clinton told several hundred people at a high school in this town near the Vermont border.

The former president's large and enthusiastic crowds attested to his value as his wife's chief surrogate. But the criticism sparked by his statement in Iowa last week that he opposed the Iraq war "from the beginning" underscored the risk. Obama, for one, laughed at the remark, saying, "If he did, I don't think most of us heard about it."

Obama, who spoke out against the 2003 invasion before it occurred, has often reminded voters that Hillary Clinton voted to authorize the war.

Asked whether he had any concerns or regrets about the fallout from his remark on Iraq, the former president said: "Well, I regret that they were falsely represented by the press, who wants to make it a political story."

Clinton said he made clear before the war that United Nations inspectors should complete their search for weapons of mass destruction before any U.S. invasion.

He also pointed to remarks that he made in New York the week before the invasion.

"I'm for regime change too, but there's more than one way to do it," he said at the time. "We don't invade everybody whose regime we want to change. There's more than one way to do this, but if that passes and he actually disarms, then we have to be willing to take it, and then work for regime change by supporting the opposition to Saddam Hussein within and outside Iraq, and doing other things."

Clinton's comment on Iraq last week came in the middle of his remarks criticizing tax cuts for wealthy Americans like himself. "Even though I approved of Afghanistan and opposed Iraq from the beginning," he said, "I still resent that I was not asked or given the opportunity to support those soldiers."

michael.finnegan@latimes.com
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Will Chris Matthews issue a retraction and a formal apology to the Clintons TODAY on his show?

Will he, George Stephanopolus and all the pundits who appeared on their programs and elsewhere spend even one minute saying they were WRONG to have spent the better part of the last week attributing Clinton's ACCURATE claim about his position on the Iraq War from the very beginning to the family trait of being "Clintonian" in being loose with the facts?

Will any of them spend even one minute apologizing for comparing Clinton's ACCURATE claim about his position on the Iraq War from the very beginning to KARL ROVE'S astounding lie about who pushed for the timing of the Congressional Resolution vote?

Will we see Chris Matthews or George Stephanopolus show up on Keith Olbermann's WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD ranking for their contributions to the vast Right Wing conspiracy of lies to discredit the Clintons at every opportunity?

Don't hold your breath.

right on!'s picture

What an effed up bunch of shameless hypocrites and losers these republican campaigners are... good gawd! I hope they all STFU and just fade away into the proverbial sunset. Barf!! they make me sick!

ysbaddaden's picture

StirFry @ 43:

ysbaddaden @ 35:

33 StirFry

Just came off the top of my head with the dandruff, and what remains of my hair.

Why does Clinton always have the contented smile of a cat who's gotten into the cream?

He gets a kick out the of the republicans keeping the bill clinton flame alive...or he's thinking of a really filthy joke.

Sounds like we're alot alike.

Mark Mywords's picture

[Deleted. Quit posting in ALLCAPS]

jr's picture

Dear Huck,
You're a piece of rapture bunnyist shit. Letting a girl get raped and killed to get street cred with Richard Mellon Scaife. You and your undercover lover Chuck Norris can go Cheney yourselves

ysbaddaden's picture

Huckabee's newly announced campaign themesong:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRiBxiipxu8

Dr. Acula's picture

Which blog or newssite was recently asking "Who will be this year's Willie Horton?"

Well, ladies and gentlemen, we now have our answer -- Wayne Dumond.

Adios, Huckleberry.

Preacher Boob's picture

Somebody, obviously, fu*ked Huchabee's brains out.

Was it his 'god'? Or, more likely, one of his fellow 'ministers'? His Sunday school teacher?

Or one of his 'Johns'? A rest-room 'neighbor'? Just a no-name, fast-fu*k-fling?

It's hard to guess with these 'christian' professors.

Coulda been a pig.

bill w's picture

Matt in Texas @ 23:

Typical Christian Hypocrite. Too bad we can't throw them all to the lions anymore. Of course, we'd be guilty of animal cruelty!

But there would be no hungry lions anymore.
They (lions) could have lots of indigestion though.

Thing Fish's picture

Don't hold your breath on fundies holding Huckabee accountable. Check out this from CBN:

His critics will go after the taxes he raised as governor. But Huckabee says it's not so cut and dried and has signed a no new taxes pledge.

While in office, he also signed the parole release for a convicted rapist and murderer. That man, Wayne Drummond, then murdered again.

There is also the matter of likeability. You would think that's a good thing, but Huckabee's critics wonder if he's too nice to be president in this day and age.

'Mike Huckabee is a likeable guy," Huckabee said of himself. "Just don't cross the United States of America and put our interests at risk and put our people's lives at risk. And then whoever does that, will find that I'm not very likeable to them."

His biggest challenge, though, may simply be a numbers game.

-- http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/225041.aspx

Nope. Releasing a serial rapist and murder is no biggie. He's a like-able guy! It's just a numbers game.

(Guess that means rape doesn't count for Huckabee supporters. And murder only if it's abortion. Sheesh...)

Trittydi's picture

Muckabee is completely complicit in the death of the woman Dumond killed.

He chose this path and then convinced himself that his role in their crimes would aid him in a presidential bid. Payback for loyalty and being a good repiglican brownshirt.

Well - payback's a bitch.

Karma, Muckabee, Karma.
*

Straight Shooter's picture

Say, Huckabee and bush have a lot in common. Huckabee sets a known rapist free, who goes on to rape and kill at least one other woman, and suspected of killing another one, also. bush happily signs orders to go forward with execution for everyone on Death Row in Texas, setting a historical record in modern America, but he commutes the death sentence for Henry Lee Lucas, infamous serial rapist and killer.

Yeah, the GOP loves its little murderous-minded minions.

Straight Shooter's picture

Thing Fish @ 70:

Don't hold your breath on fundies holding Huckabee accountable. Check out this from CBN:

While in office, he also signed the parole release for a convicted rapist and murderer. That man, Wayne Drummond, then murdered again.

Did those CBN fuckers really misspell the guy's name as "Drummond"? Deliberately misleading. They really don't give a damn, do they? And he wasn't merely "in office." He was the governor.

Jack Damage's picture

After bush???? That's ALL we need as president.. Some silkysmooth talkin baptist rightwing religous fra-reek as president... Fuck him, he'll never get my vote... Anyone 'that' beholden to his personal 'faith' that he's using it as a campaign ploy is just inherently untrustworthy in my book... Hey Huckleberry? what's your position on the issue of separation of Church and State!!!???

My guess, is your answer, if you ever had the nerve to face that question would be some typical equivocating bullshit that says nothing of substance... In fact the entire GOP field has nothing of substance to offer but more of the same ol shit that republicans have been workin since Reagan and it's tired, worn out and old.... I wouldn't waste spit on the whole lot of them if they were all dying of thirst in a desert........JD

Cieran's picture

Stop saying Hilary was right when she talked about a vast right wing conspiracy. Yes, she was. But she was by no means the first or even best to talk about it. John F. Kennedy, in his speech entitled "The President and the Press", spoke of the elitist conspiracy of the Rothschilds and Rockerfellers, and called it a "monolithic and ruthless conspiracy", and was by far the most eloquent as describing exactly the dangers of the Bilderberg group's motus operandi.

ysbaddaden's picture

Straight Shooter @ 72:

Say, Huckabee and bush have a lot in common. Huckabee sets a known rapist free, who goes on to rape and kill at least one other woman, and suspected of killing another one, also. bush happily signs orders to go forward with execution for everyone on Death Row in Texas, setting a historical record in modern America, but he commutes the death sentence for Henry Lee Lucas, infamous serial rapist and killer.

Yeah, the GOP loves its little murderous-minded minions.

http://www.thoughtcrimenews.com/bushrape.htm

klunk's picture

Bonkers @ 12:

If yewwww stoopid libruls din't allas haveta molly-coddle them criminals when they wuz young, we wouldn't HAVE rapists an' killers an' welfare moms!

Heheheh! Pwned, you stooopid tree huggers. Vote Huckabee!

hyuck, hyuck, hyuck... loox lahk yew pwned yerse'f jethro... now, git back in yer shed an' let da groad-ups do yer t'inkin' fer ya... reckon so?

mt's picture

That post and the update were both outstanding. Great work.

Phil's picture

Since Bill O'Reilly always crusades against judges who give too light sentences to rapists, I fully expect him to take Huckabee to task for this.

Or not...

Thing Fish's picture

Straight Shooter @ 73:

Thing Fish @ 70:

Don't hold your breath on fundies holding Huckabee accountable. Check out this from CBN:

While in office, he also signed the parole release for a convicted rapist and murderer. That man, Wayne Drummond, then murdered again.

Did those CBN fuckers really misspell the guy's name as "Drummond"? Deliberately misleading. They really don't give a damn, do they? And he wasn't merely "in office." He was the governor.

Dang, didn't even notice that. I entered the wrong name on the search. Seeing that the author is a "senior national correspondent" of CBN, an unintentional mistake doesn't seem likely.

Thanks for pointing that out. (Was wondering why I didn't get many hits in the search.)

Janet's picture

Just saw the clip on CNN with Hickabee saying it was Bill Clintons fault Dumond got paroled. Nobody is backing his statements. The parole board said they were pressured by Hickabee.

Preacher Boob's picture

liberalNmoderation @ 31:

pissed off patricia @ 5:

The bar for the republican party has been set so low that you have to dig to find it. They don't care about the law or criminals, all they care or cared about was bringing down Bill Clinton. I've said all along that Hillary was right about this. For whatever warped reason that freaky right wing group just couldn't live with Bill Clinton as president.

Some times I wonder if they aren't more than some religious group, but something much more criminal than that with aim at a much larger target and simply using religion as a shield.

Me too, I don't have to try very hard to not buy into any of the ultra-paranoid conspiracy theories....but damn if some of them theories ain't hitting pretty close to what appears to be goin on. Whatever happens in the near future...it's gonna be friggin history making. I just hope that it's good stuff comin our way...not all this evil shit I've been reading about.

The republican party bar is set so low that you can pole-vault over it and still win the naked liberal limbo contest.

ysbaddaden's picture

In the Beginning was the Flying Spaghetti Monster

But then Bob ate him for dinner with some garlic bread sticks, a fresh tossed salad, some eggplant parmesan, washed down with some chilled barbaresco, and some nice gelato for dessert.

Preacher Boob's picture

Huckabee was just a little naive, he thought that so long as he sexually satiated Dumond before his release, with oral and anal sodomy, and mutual masturbation, he'd be safe to let go on the streets.

But wouldn't you know it, Dumond missed his next day's follow-up appointment with Huckabee.

THAT's what caused all the trouble.

bill's picture

Who could support a lying, stupid Baptist minister that thinks the world is only 6,000 years old AND the world is flat? Hick-a-bee is an idiot. He couldn't manage a night shift at McDonald's let alone be president of the "flat" US.

How stupid can you republiCONs be supporting a flat world guy??? This type of person is absolutely dangerous and has no business even considering running for president. He let a rapist out of prison to kill again. Now that is one dumb f*cker.

Susan's picture

Right wing conspiracy?? What's really pathetic is that the right was trying to trap Clinton for years in Arkansas. Yet once in the White House he still could not control his urge to pursue every female that would respond. Not only does it show a serious lack of judgment but complete disregard for the Democratic party. Anyone dumb enough to vote the Clintons back into office after what they have been responsible for should really seek a brain scan.

Media Concepts's picture

According to this report, I don't see an effort to "discredit" Clinton, or anything related to Clinton's actions at all. Rather it appears to be a vindictive effort to hurt Clinton and his family by freeing a criminal who had committed a crime against someone who was related to Clinton. That's a huge difference.

swarmofkillermonkeys's picture

I'm going to say the most offensive thing I've said on this blog (or maybe anywhere in a while):

I don't think it's just Huckabee. By that, I mean, I'm actually going to blame the culture to which the man subscribes, not just his individual decision-making. One pair of my grandparents were old (pre-crazy... think Carter, though they were conservative) Baptists, but this is different.

The modern, twisted concept of being "born again" is bullshit, and has grown into a huge flaw that condones evil, and throws out the concept of accountability and personal responsibility. This is not the point of the words of Jesus, as a far as I can tell, which is simply baptism. I've no love for the self-flagelating Puritan prodestants, nor the vaguely pagan, endless atonements of the Catholics... but at least they don't subscribe to the idea that you can just say, "Wait, if I just say I'm you *your* Jesus team instead of another one, then anything bad I did no longer matters?! Count me in! That's a LOT easier than admitting guilt and trying to repair the damage. It's almost like I don't have to learn from my mistakes!"

Hmm... who does that remind me of?

Ex-Canuck's picture

Hope they get all the dirt out on huckabee that they can. The man is a dangerous theofascist. If this latest story is true, that he had a repuke-based motive in helping get rapist's release simply to get at Clinton, then he is worse than I thought.

It should be apparent after almost 7 years of this shit that the religious right will do whatever it can to establish a theocracy in this country, and huckabee is a member of that cult. His whole run for the presidency may be an attempt to keep the theofascists in power in the US for another 4 years at least.

Any president who believes that god controls every single little thing that happens in the universe, including poll numbers, would be very dangerous indeed. DO NOT ALLOW huckabee TO EVEN HAVE A CHANCE AT THE OFFICE.

Punchy's picture

If this were a Dem candidate the right wing machine would end his campaign with this. Finished/Done.
Why doesn't it happen on our side? Can anyone answer that?

Tequila's picture

I guess it's not a big deal when a rapist goes free, if he's white.

curtis's picture

Hey man - as long as no embryos were raped and killed. They guy was not an embryo raper he was just a lady raper.

tonyclifton's picture

Y'know, I have a good sense of humor, and I love the C&L site. But I lose a little bit of it every time you refer to "the clenis", in what ought to be a serious post. I've been a big fan of this website for a long time, and will remain so. But, you're being as petty as Bill O'Reilly when you do that. Your lowering yourselves to the same standard, nearly.

C'mon, you are better, and above that. I hope.

Patriot Williams's picture

Huckabee or Huckafeller?
Given America's current situation with the War in Iraq, you would think that people would be a little suspicious of any Presidential candidate that just emerges from nowhere with little in the way of individual donations. Perhaps a recap of America's situation is in order. The current administration misled (at best) the American people about WMDs in Iraq in order to get us into war. Why? Alan Greenspan, a strong and connected republican, says it was due to oil interests. That's right. There are people that profit from war. The Bush family has always had close associations with big oil. What other families come to mind when we think of big oil? The Rockefellers that owned Standard Oil come to mind. The Rockefellers are still one of the most powerful families in the world with financial interests in oil, banking, media, and everything between. What does this have to do with Mike Huckabee? Are you aware that his Lieutenant Gov was Winthrop P. Rockefeller? A man that died with a net worth of $1.2 billion dollars? How is that for connected? The Rockefellers wield considerable influence in Arkansas. This brings me to another President that appeared out of nowhere....Bill Clinton. Yes, another Arkansas governor. Am I the only one "gun shy" after the 20 years of the Bush and Clinton dynasties? Maybe I am just paranoid. Maybe Mike Huckabee just fell from the sky to deliver us all. Or maybe we are all just easily manipulated. If you think it couldn't happen, try researching the Gulf on Tonkin lie that got us into Vietnam. We were lied to about Vietnam, Iraq, and now Iran. Our faith has been manipulated by money. Maybe sometimes we just cannot handle the truth. God DID NOT put Huckabee on the map. The Rockefellers did.

juanita's lover's picture

huckadork sounds like a democrat.. LOL yeah, hillary really feels the victim's pain. when it comes to rape you all have a very selective memory... does my name mean anything to you all? wake up.. the clintons and the vast right wing conspiracy are all in bed together. they are all corrupt, the only 2 out there that aren't are kucinich and ron paul.

ysbaddaden's picture

95 juanita’s lover

Ever hear of Margie Schoedinger?

ysbaddaden's picture

94 Patriot Williams

Hockaloogie.

CoIntelPRo's picture

Patriot Williams @ 94:

Huckabee or Huckafeller? God DID NOT put Huckabee on the map. The Rockefellers did.

maybe you have a good point there. thanks for that information.

CoIntelPRo's picture

there is plenty reason to be afeared of the huckster.

Steve Charb's picture

WOAH WOAH WOAH!! TIME OUT!!

We're suddenly pro death penalty?!? --Because there's Royal Blood involved?!? Give me a freaking break... we're not supposed to be the hypocrites, here.

You're regurgitating a perfect example of the Republican argument supporting the death penalty: "We don't want those criminals out on our streets, raping our women and children (Clintons.)" Next we'll be anti-gun control when Chelsea gets involved.

HINT HINT HINT: we ALWAYS hate capital punishment, regardless of who's involved. Justice is Blind!!

Don't you remember when Bill Clinton made a deliberate point of personally witnessing the execution of a retarded black convict, Ricky Ray Rector, just to pander to the racists? (The Supreme Court has since ruled execution of the mentally handicapped as cruel and unusual punishment.)

I know he's got the face and intelligence of a pug dog, but come on. How 'bout we just give Huckabee the benefit of the doubt here and just call it an unfortunate coincidence, so we can stop looking like fools and tools. Thank you very much.

rain's picture

Bonkers @ 12:

If yewwww stoopid libruls din't allas haveta molly-coddle them criminals when they wuz young, we wouldn't HAVE rapists an' killers an' welfare moms!

Heheheh! Pwned, you stooopid tree huggers. Vote Huckabee!

Sure, we'll vote for Huckabee just because you say so - when pigs fly.
BTW Bonkers - I loved your grammar.

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