Meet Maurice Clemmons. Actually, you don't want to meet Maurice, as he's the pyschopathic nutcase that gunned down four Washington state police officers in cold blood in a coffeehouse Sunday morning. He also apparently is a dimension-hopper, as he seems to have skipped out of a house during an all-night stand-off with SWAT teams that had surrounded him. You can read the latest updates about him here.
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Maurice is an embarrassment to Mike Huckabee, who pardoned him (along with over a thousand others) ten years ago, when Maurice was serving a 90+-year sentence. Oops. Shades of Michael Dukakis and Willie Horton.
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It will be interesting to see how the dittohead power-brokers spin this. A lot depends on whether they want Huckabee to be the GOP candidate in 2012. If they do, this will be spun as the fault of bleeding-heart liberals on the Arkansas parole board.
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OTOH, if they're pinning their hopes on Sarah Failin' Palin, then this is a chance to eliminate a rival and you can expect them to tear Hucka-booboo to pieces.
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Personally, I think Huckabee poses the biggest threat to Obama being re-elected next time. He's got name-recognition, and can probably pull the whole midwest and south into the GOP camp. So I'm all in favor of Rush and the rest of the wingnuts going into feeding frenzy mode.
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In truth, Huckabee did nothing wrong. Giving 1000+ criminals a chance to redeem themselves is well-intended. It doesn't make Huckabee "soft on crime". But it does carry an inherent risk should one of those convicts decide to try to eliminate every police officer in the entire country. Welcome to reality, Hucky. Life's a b*tch at times.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Hucka-booboo
Meet Maurice Clemmons. Actually, you don't want to meet Maurice, as he's the pyschopathic nutcase that gunned down four Washington state police officers in cold blood in a coffeehouse Sunday morning. He also apparently is a dimension-hopper, as he seems to have skipped out of a house during an all-night stand-off with SWAT teams that had surrounded him. You can read the latest updates about him here.
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Maurice is an embarrassment to Mike Huckabee, who pardoned him (along with over a thousand others) ten years ago, when Maurice was serving a 90+-year sentence. Oops. Shades of Michael Dukakis and Willie Horton.
.
It will be interesting to see how the dittohead power-brokers spin this. A lot depends on whether they want Huckabee to be the GOP candidate in 2012. If they do, this will be spun as the fault of bleeding-heart liberals on the Arkansas parole board.
.
OTOH, if they're pinning their hopes on Sarah Failin' Palin, then this is a chance to eliminate a rival and you can expect them to tear Hucka-booboo to pieces.
.
Personally, I think Huckabee poses the biggest threat to Obama being re-elected next time. He's got name-recognition, and can probably pull the whole midwest and south into the GOP camp. So I'm all in favor of Rush and the rest of the wingnuts going into feeding frenzy mode.
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In truth, Huckabee did nothing wrong. Giving 1000+ criminals a chance to redeem themselves is well-intended. It doesn't make Huckabee "soft on crime". But it does carry an inherent risk should one of those convicts decide to try to eliminate every police officer in the entire country. Welcome to reality, Hucky. Life's a b*tch at times.
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Funny story about Huckabee - Saturday morning, my writer's group was all waiting at the cafe door at B&N for the store to open. There was a group of people waiting at the back door to the store, and one of them came over to us to ask if we were there for Huckabee. Apparently they were all gathering in line to get tickets to his book signing that night, and thought we were just going to cut in front of them because we weren't at the back where we belonged. One of the girls in our group thought Huckabee was a band...
i have a feeling that all the GOP presidential candidates will spend a lot of time in Texas up until the primary. after that, it'll get real quiet there, since Texas is usually thought of as being a "safe Republican" state.
and FWIW, in his spare time, Mike Huckabee does play in a rock-&-roll band called Capitol Offense. not that i'd ever listen to them.
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