I don’t understand why there appears to be such severe hatred for Mike Huckabee. When he explained what happened, it sounded reasonable. I often hear hateful comments toward the mere mention of Mike Huckabee’s name. Is it only because you don’t think he’s conservative enough? It’s starting to make me wonder if Free Republic is not what I thought. I’m not trying to start a fight. I’m just trying to understand your position.
Plus, why is the fact that he used to be overweight relevant to anything? I’m just asking.
What’s relevent is the fact that he is an egalitarian socialist liar. He is a close friend to Bill Clinton, and definitely more liberal; Clinton refused to parole the killer, after Huck commuted the sentence, making him eligible.
I can only speak for myself; I think he is a huckster. His conservatism (or lack of it) is unimportant. Wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him, although I would like to give that a try.
“It’s starting to make me wonder if Free Republic is not what I thought.”
What did you think FR was? It is not the RNC.
I’d have a LOT more respect for Huckabee if, instead of trying to justify his tragic error in judgement, he said something like, “I made a horrible mistake. I let a maniac out of prison and he murdered 4 police officers. I was trying to be ‘compassionate’, but looking back, I was foolish, and my foolishness has caused unspeakable pain to many people. I humbly beg your forgiveness.”
The fact that hs is justifying his outrageous decision indicates that, if given the opportunity, he would make similar foolish decisions, that would cost more innocent lives.
To read this arrogant, self-serving piece, you’d think those “conservative talkers” were responsible for the murder of the police officers.
You’re right. Not much conservatism or intellectual honesty on display on this thread.
We're pretty up front around here. This is a conservative website dedicated to promoting conservative causes and conservative activism. It's not that Huckabee isn't conservative enough, it's that he's not conservative at all.
But it appears that the Huckster had you fooled.
As for the excuses, that this poor boy was sentenced to a longer term than adults would be, why commute the sentence to 47 years? Why not just free the young man who'd been in jail for 11 years? Could it be because the young man, before he was convicted of the crimes that netted him 108 years, had a long, violent juvvie record?
It is Christian to forgive the sinner and condemn the sin. For me, forgiveness can only come when he accepts what his actions did, that he, alone, stands responsible for that young man being let out of prison in the first place. No other power in the state had the ability to retroactively change the prison sentence, and the Huckster's action set in motion the chain of events that resulted in at least five more deaths.
There's a lot of blame to be shared, however. He was paroled, not once, but twice. He was let out on bail, at least once, possibly twice, the last time a scant week before the killings.
But none of these other people would have had the opportunity to make these bad decisions if the Huckster hadn't first commuted the sentence. And just as we'd blame a judge if they overturned a decision of a jury and a sentencing judge, we blame the Huckster for what he has done.