Barbour defends controversial pardons as based on the Christian belief in forgiveness

Fox News ^ | January 13th, 2012 | AP

[Sacajaweau]

This election is about defeating Obama...not nit picking the Repub candidates to death. In reality, you kill the whole party.

Romney is not all things but I think he will be forced to do a good job especially if we get both houses. I think Bolton thinks the same way. GET BEHIND THE REPUB CANDIDATE.

[CalvaryJohn]

Yup. Old men get soft in the head and weak in the knees. Politicians should start at thirty and retire at sixty.

[KantianBurke]

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Slow down there.

Only one primary - out of 50 - has yet voted.

After Newt beats Romney in the primaries, then we can have this conversation about rallying behind our candidate.

Until then, all bets are off! Romney’s a sleazeball. He’s going to lose.

[fortheDeclaration]

It is amazing how softheaded some Christians are.

Crimes are suppose to be punished, that is a Biblical concept.

[fortheDeclaration]

We haven’t picked one yet.

[stockpirate]

Another idiot, Hally Huckibe

[DeaconRed]

"What a weak-kneed, hypocrite!"

Couldn't have said it better myself.
There was something about him I didn't like. I now know what it was. . . . . .

[Walkingfeather]

Um... so if it were done out of Christian belief (which it may have been) why did he wait till the last day in office to release them and not the first day when he would have paid a cost politically? I think he is not being authentic.

[Krankor]

If he was so certain the people of Mississippi were so forgiving, why didn’t he set these scumbags free at the end of his first term?

[Venturer]

I will be glad to get behind the Repub Candidate as along as that candidate is not Romney or Paul.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Brown acid.

[Nextrush]

Won’t say anything about Barbour’s pardons, but back in 1976 a younger Haley Barbour led Gerald Ford’s campaign efforts in the southeastern states.

He helped twist the arms of delegates from Mississippi to put Ford over the top in the close race with Ronald Reagan in 1976.

Barbour was always from the insider establishment RINO wing of the GOP.

[littleharbour]

Governors who pardon monsters should be civilly and criminally responsible if they commit further crimes after they are released from prison. Easy for a gutless wonder like Barbour to make himself good while putting others at risk. Put his own neck on the line and we’ll see how much Christian charity he actually possesses.

[P-Marlowe]

Was anyone executed in Mississippi under this clown’s watch?

If he is willing to pardon murderers because its the Christian thing to do, then why didn’t he just empty the prisons of all the robbers and thieves?

[KantianBurke]

“then why didn’t he just empty the prisons of all the robbers and thieves?”

Because they all weren’t his personal slaves on his plantation.

[HarleyD]

I really get tired of reading about “Christians” misguided belief in forgiveness. God also requires a sense of justice. That is the purpose of law and one of the reason God gave us law. This distorted view of “turning the other cheek” is a phony excuse to make people “feel” a false sense of spirituality. Forgiveness is not a Christian belief unless it's balanced with justice.

[P-Marlowe]

Apparently he only issued pardons to his friends.

[P-Marlowe]

Apparently he only issued pardons to his friends.

[anglian]

That’s like saying I believe in the welfare state because it’s Christian charity.