Please let Huckabee win the nomination

[Botany]

What a guy ... a rapist's best friend


A must read .... warning graphic

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/04/documents-expose-huckabee_n_75362.html

Documents Expose Huckabee's Role In Serial Rapist's Release

Little Rock, Ark -- As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee aggressively pushed for the early release of a convicted rapist despite being warned by numerous women that the convict had sexually assaulted them or their family members, and would likely strike again. The convict went on to rape and murder at least one other woman.

Confidential Arkansas state government records, including letters from these women, obtained by the Huffington Post and revealed publicly for the first time, directly contradict the version of events now being put forward by Huckabee.

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In a letter that has never before been made public, one of Dumond's victims warned: "I feel that if he is released it is only a matter of time before he commits another crime and fear that he will not leave a witness to testify against him the next time." Before Dumond was granted parole at Huckabee's urging, records show that Huckabee's office received a copy of this letter from Arkansas' parole board.

The woman later wrote directly to Huckabee about having been raped by Dumond. In a letter obtained by the Huffington Post, she said that Dumond had raped her while holding a butcher knife to her throat, and while her then-3-year-old daughter lay in bed next to her. Also included in the files sent to Huckabee's office was a police report in which Dumond confessed to the rape. Dumond was not charged in that particular case because he later refused to sign the confession and because the woman was afraid to press charges.


Huckabee kept these and other documents secret because they were politically damaging, according to a former aide who worked for him in Arkansas. The aide has made the records available to the Huffington Post, deeply troubled by Huckabee's repeated claims that he had no reason to believe Dumond would commit other violent crimes upon his release from prison. The aide also believes that Huckabee, for political reasons, has deliberately attempted to cover up his knowledge of Dumond's other sexual assaults.

"There were no letters sent to the governor's office from any rape victims," Huckabee campaign spokesperson Alice Stewart said on Tuesday when contacted by the Huffington Post.

[liberalnurse]

1. I'm not sure we can milk this in the General Election.

I don't wan Hucker....He can remain cool under pressure and knows how to pander to the less informed left...

[patrice]

3. "left"? Are you saying that what Populists there are on the other side

will go for Huckabee?

Whom are you referring to with "left"?

[liberalnurse]

5. We have many uninformed voters....

uninformed to where they can't recall who they voted for in 04 but recall voting. That group.

[patrice]

2. Huckabee will compete for the same Southern votes as all three of our top candidates.

We stand a small chance with The South this time. Huckabee is the only one who can screw that up for us.

[AlinPA]

4. I think he would win all the south, he might have trouble in UT and ID, but taking OH will

seal it for him. 'murcans will go for him the way they did Bush**.

[enid602]

14. Huck

Huckabee will only garner support among the trailer park republicans; if he wins the nomination, the country club republicans are likely to sit this one out. Go Huckabee!

[MasonJar]

6. Please be careful what you wish for when Diebold et al machines are

still out there everywhere. The man is a personable freak. Do we really want to chance another pres who follows the evangelical creed? I am definitely out of here if any of these GOPer psychos gets elected.

[calimary]

9. ABSOLUTELY. PLEASE be careful what you wish for. This guy is BAD NEWS.

He may be even worse than bush because he's got the "nice" and "aw-shucks" down COLD, PLUS he's got the open, unabashed (and quite nauseating) evangelical thing down COLD - and straight out there in the open. He's already established himself with some of 'em as their "great white hope." He's deceptively congenial and amiable and may have already won over more people than we can anticipate - who are now FAVORABLY PREDISPOSED toward him and will cut him LOTS of slack, LOTS of leeway, LOTS of forgiveness. If you think they're looking the other way when bush screws people up one side of the room and down the other, just wait til this gomer goober gets the Oval Office under his control. There will be HELL to pay.

I am DEEPLY uncomfortable with him and VERY worried. bush snuck it in more or less under the radar. This guy hits you in the face with it. FULL BORE. With his so-called "theology degree" that's really just a BA in Religion.

We underestimate this guy at our peril. He is silky, sneaky, and VERY bad news. And he's made too many inroads already. I wouldn't take him for granted, or assume we can stick a fork in him, for one instant.

[patrice]

15. Up thread . . .

The second reference to Country Clubbers won't vote for him that I've seen this pm . . . . Do you think anything's going on with that?

[calimary]

18. They might be too snooty for him, but if he's the nominee, you bet

they'll get behind him.

There are very few things I admire about the republi-CON party. But one thing I do admire is their ability to stick together. They'd vote on "principle" - simply unable to pull the lever for the "D" on there. If it was Mother Theresa or Albert Schweitzer running on our side, they'd still pull for the "r". I have nextdoor neighbors like that. Very self-styled patrician and aristocratic. They think we're weird and somewhat unwashed at my house. They have their carrots firmly stuck up their butts. They're EXTREME country club types. And they'll vote for a Dem when Hell freezes over.

[skipos]

7. There are a lot of pro-rapist, anti-science, Jesus-rode-a-dinosaur voters out there

I think Biden would do the best against him, as anyone interested in experience, intelligence in foreign affairs, and fiscal reponsiblity would not like Huckster.

[graywarrior]

8. Make him a Huckabeen.

[smokey nj]

10. Are there ANY pictures of this guy where he DOESN'T look like a serial killer?

I swear, every time I see a Huckabee photo I can't help but wonder how many bodies are buried in his back yard.

[Olney Blue]

11. All we need is another intellectual lightweight who believes that he is

on a mission from God. The Huckster has crazy eyes, and he must go down.



Hi Botany :hi:

[Botany]

13. This info is deadly to him.

We have to push it through the "internets" because I doubt the
MSM will do so.

This has him caught up in so many lies and awful acts that many
"God Fearing" republicans will not vote for him. Hell, one of his
victims was a Baptist church leader.

Huckabee lied about having a theology degree too. posted by by kskiska

After the news conference with Ed Rollins in Concord, NH, Huckabee and Rollins, his new national campaign manager, took some questions. The last question was about a Powerline blog, a conservative blog, story that he did not, in fact, have a theology degree, as he has claimed. Here is Huckabee's response:

"I have a bachelor of arts in religion and a minor in communications in my undergraduate work. And then I have 46 hours on a master's degree at Southwestern Theology Seminary. So, my degree as a theological degree is at the college level and then 46 hours toward a masters -- three years of study of New Testament Greek, and then the rest of it, all in Seminary was theological studies, but my degree was actually in religion."

Here's what Huckabee said in a Christian Broadcasting Network interview:
"I'm as strong on terror as anybody. In fact I think I'm stronger than most people because I truly understand the nature of the war that we are in with Islamofascism. These are people that want to kill us. It's a theocratic war. And I don't know if anybody fully understands that. I'm the only guy on that stage with a theology degree. I think I understand it really well."


http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/12/14/51810...

[Olney Blue]

16. Oh my. He is even more a liar than I thought....

:puke:

[maddiejoan]

12. I still think he looks like

Kaiser Soze

[kurth]

17. Maniacal eyes

[NewJeffCT]

19. Be careful what you wish for -

He comes across as a better-spoken version and more likeable version of Bush to me - an intellectual lightweight, but one who is personable.