“Huckabee actively sought this guys release. Without Huckabee’s intervention, he would never have gotten out of jail.”
I fully understand that but it seems there is a propensity to blame only Huckabee (including by Washington). When something like this happens it normally progresses through several points where it could have been stopped, Washington had the dubious distinction of being the last. Doesn’t necessarily make them more culpable, or Huckabee less so, but it does put them right up there with him.
So long as he is in ANY measure culpable, and in combination with the extremely high number of clemency grants, the relevant point is that he is soft on crime and not suitable as a Republican presidential candidate. Honestly, the libs have every bit as much right to tout this as Huckabee’s willie horton, as we did to use Willie Horton on Dukakis. That’s why Huck is toast, and rightfully so.
None the less, Huckabee was the only one that went out of his way to get Clemmons back on the street.
I think what sticks in the craw of many of us has been Huckabee’s absolute unwillingness to accept any personal responsibility for the role he played in the misery unleashed upon innocent people.
Is Huckabee solely responsible? Certainly not but he did get things rolling and for his part he’s only willing to point out the failures of others further down the disastrous chain of events.