Posted on 01/11/2008 7:13:43 PM PST by NoobRep
The Real Mike Huckabee
[posted online on January 11, 2008]
Of all the right-wing figures who have promoted Mike Huckabee's extraordinary political rise from a backwater church to the national pulpit of a presidential campaign--and there are many--perhaps none know the former Arkansas governor and current Republican presidential front-runner better than Jay Cole. A Baptist minister based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with a right-wing radio talk show of his own, Cole has been instrumental in inspiring Huckabee's rise over more than two decades. Indeed, when Huckabee was the governor of Arkansas, it was Cole who persuaded him to arrange the release from prison of a convicted rapist, Wayne Dumond, who had become a born-again evangelical in prison--the most controversial act of Huckabee's career, which still dogs him on the campaign trail.
I spoke to Cole by telephone a week before Huckabee's surprise victory in the Iowa caucuses on January 3. He was supremely confident that his saintly friend would prevail over the hosts of darkness. "Mike is one of the finest and most gracious individuals God has ever placed on Earth," Cole told me in his thick Southern drawl. "Not only does he have speaking ability, he has the Lord looking over him."
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Mike Huckabee is a great guy. Except that he likes to raise taxes, release murderers and rapists, and supports Jimmy Carter-style foreign policy.
Did I not make myself clear?
There is no evidence that Huckabee communicated to that parole board seeking Dumond's parole. There are only the allegations of parole board members who were appointed by the impeached Bill Clinton and the prosecuted Jim Guy Tucker.
Other members of that parole board have refuted their claims.
Meanwhile, Gov. Huckabee withstood the pressure to commute the sentence of Dumond, three or four times. One, in that so often partially quoted letter where Huckabee explains that he would like to commute the sentence (for his sake) but believed that would be the wrong thing to do.
Now that is the testimony of Governor Huckabee. Call him a liar if you want, but if you are an honorable man (or woman) you should have the evidence to cite.
Or, if you are not honorable, just keep spreading the hit peace and ponder those gates the governor referred to, last night.
The “saintliness” aspect is such a major turnoff to me. That he is a God believing man is terrific, but I don’t live in and do not wish to live in a theocracy.
PS: Those same parole board members who are bringing up these false allegations had been released by Gov. Huckabee, according to his testimony to Wolf Blitzer.
Gov. Huckabee does not want you there, either. Don't be shallow. Listen to the man
It matters not to me if unspun answers the questions -— the answers are already known.
Dear Wayne, Huckabee wrote in a letter to Dumond. My desire is that you be released from prison. I feel that parole is the best way for your reintroduction to society to take place.
As a lifelong Southern Baptist, I have to frankly say that I shudder to think what the Dems will do with the vast array of weapons they can use against a person with Huckabee’s background to deamonize him in the eyes of those who don’t know anything about the SBC but what the mainstream media tells them.
Quiet apart from the Dumond matter, the damage that can be done both to our political system, and to the public perception of evangelical Christianity that will be done when the Carvilles of the world open up their guns on Huckabee is staggering.
I won’t vote for a Dem under any circumstances but I see a LOT of danger in nominating Huckabee, quiet apart from his political views.
Oh yeah, he raised hope, not taxes. Uh huh.
Excuse me?
I asked you a question, a specific question.
I called NO ONE a liar and I find your accusation I did to be offensive. That I find you calling on Mr. Robinson and the moderator to be so childish is an entirely different story.
I consider myself to be an honorable woman and find your accusations here to contrary to be extremely offensive and against the rules around here.
Oh Huck a boo hoo
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If you watched Hannity and Colmes tonight, you would have heard that there is a letter, being called a smoking gun, making the rounds out there that proves Huckabee pushed for the parole of this particular criminal. If that’s the case, your guy will be a liar- twice.
I do not abide nanny-state lovers.
And, I have not charged you with anything. Can you read at all?
That letter is either the one already discussed, or it is a charge without substance, since that would require a releasing of the alleged letter.
"Believe inflammatory charges defaming somoene's character, without evidence, in an election season, as long as you are opposing him."
I thought he would, you know, be clean, Huckabee told me (Byron York). And he had a job, he had sponsors lined up, so at the time, I did not have this apprehension that something horrible like that would happen. I did want him to report in [to parole authorities], because I just didnt know you never know about a guy like that.
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