Don't look now, but you've been dukakised!
Posted on 12/04/2007 4:18:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A Missouri mother says she will do "whatever it takes" to stop former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee from becoming president, because he freed the man who went on to rape and murder her daughter, Carol Sue Shields (pictured).
"I can't imagine anybody wanting somebody like that running the country," Lois Davidson of Adrian, Mo., told the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
Wayne Dumond was initially sentenced to life plus 25 years for raping a 17-year-old Arkansas high school cheerleader. In 1999, a parole board voted to free Dumond, after then-Gov. Mike Huckabee announced his desire to see him released.
THAT's gonna' raise a welt!
Just think: Huckabee wants to let millions of other criminals into our country through open borders!
Another “well-intensioned” liberal doing something totally stupid who won’t be held accountable for his actions.
Idiot.
Don't look now, but you've been dukakised!
Hmmm. I didn’t know Huckabee had a Willie Horton problem. Actually worse than Willie, because Huck wanted this specific guy released.
I wasn’t a Huckabee fan anyway, but if I had been, this would have changed my mind. No conservative has trouble understanding that violent criminals should be locked up for good.
I didn't like him anyway.
It’s that Arkansas thing
“He’s toast.”
I sure hope you are correct.
First the news story then the ads later, if he is still around.
Otherwise known here as the “Dear Wayne” fiasco.
Yuck!
You know the other two famous ones.
George W. Bush.
Lindsay Graham.
All three of these guys have said people opposing illegal immigration are either cold hearted, racists or vigilantes.
We want the Law adhered to, and we want our COUNTRY and our COMMUNITIES BACK!!
Let us show them what we think about THAT at the ballot box!!
One more instance of his (church) liberal tendencies. When you also factor in his nutty belief that the IRS can be done away with in favor of a 23% national sales tax on ALL goods and services, well, you get the point.
He’s done. Well if ABC runs it every day for the next week he’s done...
They may wait until he’s goes a little higher in the poles.
What was his reasoning for announcing that desire? The article states the convict was already "...sentenced to life plus 25 years for raping a 17-year-old...". I don't get it!!!
The DNA evidence didn’t match Wayne DuMond in the first crime.
He was a decorated Vietnam vet with a family and claimed he was innocent. He was convicted solely on the eyewitness testimony of the victim. Sounds like all the guys who got out of jail free on the Innocence Project.
He didn’t fair too well with the local sheriff.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/sexual_assault/severed_penis/7.html
As I have mentioned before around here....as a second tier candidate, no one was seriously looking at him. Now that he has moved up, he will come under the same scrutiny as the other leaders.
He has some awful baggage.
I don’t expect his numbers to stay high.
it’s odd that this only happens with republican candidates,
not democrap candidates.
“it’s odd that this only happens with republican candidates,
not democrap candidates.”
Are you too young to remember Michael Dukakis and Willie Horton?
ooops.
no.
but, series, i want some recent donkey do-do.
thanks.
Yes, considerably worse that the Willie Horton incident.
Yeah, how could we ever go on without the IRS! (/sarc)
So, this is from ABC news....
Has the MSM decided to turn against Huckabee now that he’s inching forward.
I hope so,he’s a disaster as a candidate.
He would split the GOP.
No way will he get nominated now. This is beyond bad press.
Didn’t he just say to close down Gitmo because it creates a bad image of the USA?
A lot of us are ready to pounce on this case as a way of trasing the huckster Huckabee. But I advise careful review of the entire history of the Wayne DuMond case - it is one that has been extensively discussed on FR in the past.
To summarize, a clinton relative accused DuMond of rape - and the DNA evidence apparently didn't match. Clinton, while Arkansas Governor, refused to pardon him. However, setting aside the potential false rape accusation in this case, DuMond also had a well established violent past.
I read this as a situation were a bad man was falsely accused of one particular crime. Do you try to right things w.r.t. the false crime? Or do you protect the public based on the perp's bad history? I think legally and morally you have to do the former, not the latter.
If you want to read the history of this guy on FR, check out this google search of Wayne Dumond on Free Republic.
Yes, he did.
Governor Huckabee’s problem is that 99% of the country won’t do that sort of search. They will hear that he released a man, by name, and that man killed. It will not be easy to get past this, unless his followers are “mind numbed robots.”
Well..so Huckabee should have kept th rapist on the payroll?
The Huckster stinks worse and worse, the closer you get to him.
Doesn’t matter if there were legitimate questions regarding Dumond’s guilt in the first crime. It’s political now and all reason goes out the window.
Remember Willie Horton!
I keep hearing the sound of knives being sharpened in all directions, coming from various campaign headquarters.
Huckabee wanted rapist set free; rapist then raped and murdered another woman; BUMP TO THE TOP!
I’m not a Huckleberry fan myself, but the only guy who never made a mistake isn’t running. I’m just planning to vote against Hillary. I don’t really care that much who her competition is, she’s the only candidate who inspires me.
In 1992, former Lieutenant Governor Jim Guy Tucker reduced DuMond's sentence to 39 years, which made him eligible for parole, David Lieb said in an AP Online article. In 1996, Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee planned to release DuMond from prison based on a lack of sufficient DNA evidence related to the rape investigation. However, he "abandoned his plan" after a public outcry and denied DuMond clemency, Stearns said. In 1999, DuMond was released from prison on parole but his freedom was short-lived.Source.
I'm not a big fan of Huckabee, but what is the average time served for a first offender rapist in Arkansas? If it's not more than 15 years, then it's no surprise he was released.
And here's an FR thread from 2005 when DuMond was found dead in prison.
"...in case those who were asking about gov huckabee earlier today are reading this --- huckabee felt really sorry for this pos and let him out on parole against all recommendations..."
There’s more to that than a lot of folks know.
After that first Arkansas Bozo in the Oval Office, do we really want another?
I use the Bozo reference on purpose...President Bush the First called him that, IIRC.
Semper Fi,
I have a REAL problem with this. If Huckabee was so certain that Dumond needed a second chance, why did he export him to Missouri? Why did the people of Missouri need to take all the risk for Huckabee's gamble?
You’re already paying the equivalent of 23% tax, in hidden fees and taxes added onto all kinds of things.
Read the Fair Tax book. It is eye-opening.
Question. Who will collect the tax? The county tax office or the state revenue department? I know of businesses that collect state tax and don’t report most of it. How about when you hire a cleaning lady who wants to be paid in cash. Does she add tax to her bill? If you are hospitalized with a $50,000 bill does the hospital add an additional $12,500 services tax? Don’t forget that this 23% tax is on top of state and local sales taxes.
No this scheme is nutty. It won’t bring back industries that have shut down. Once the last manufacturer of a product has closed shop, that industry never comes back.
This scheme will merely hasten the day when our government declares itself bankrupt.
Everybody that sells a good or service will collect the tax. There are already tax cheats and still probably will be, what can I say. The book said Dr visits would be taxed so I assume hospital stay would be too.
What you dont account for though is the 22% average embedded tax you already pay on everything you currently buy which the book explains way better than I can. The fairtax would eliminate the embedded taxes you already pay so goods and services will end up the same place they already are, since the fairtax is also going to be included in the price you see on the shelf there will be a minimal change.
The reason it would work is because it increases who is paying tax. Drug dealers, prostitutes, illegals, tourists etc. would all be footing the tax burden when they spent their money here.
Since there is no income tax on labor the cleaning lady probably would not be collecting tax the way I understand it. It eliminates everything except state and local taxes including individual income, payroll income, estate, gift, capitol gains, Alternative minimum tax, self employment and corportate
The current IRS system is the nutty scheme... you can take all my info to 20 different places and get 20 different results... then when the IRS says you underpaid by $200 10 years ago and now with penaties and interest you owe $26,000 well that is just INSANE!
BTTT
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