Huckabee's Willie Hortons

Mike Huckabee had a disturbing record in Arkansas of having a soft spot for some vicious criminals and letting them go. The Wayne Dumond case has become a famous one. Huckabee publicly urged convicted rapist Dumond be freed, he lobbied the parole board to release him, which they did ... and then the freed rapist DuMond went on to rape and kill two women in Missouri. His words of support for Wayne DuMond may well become the epitaph for Huckabee's currently surging campaign:

‘DEAR WAYNE’: GOP presidential hopeful Mick Huckabee wrote to Wayne DuMond. “My desire is that you be released from prison,” the governor wrote. “I feel now that parole is the best way."

Parole officials insist Huckabee pushed for DuMond's release while Huckabee has tried to discount and cover up his role as this story has come to light.

What is less well known and truly disturbing is that Huckabee's clemency for Dumond was not an exception, but only one of many questionable cases where Huckabee personally intervened to free criminals. Huckabee was a violent felon commutation and pardon machine, issuing more commutations than all the bordering states combined, including this - "Huckabee has commuted the sentences of a dozen murderers."

One particularly guesome case is his freeing vicious murderer Glen Green. An Arkansas newpaper reports:

Gov. Huckabee probably never read the confession of a demented killer named Glen Green before he made the monster eligible for parole. Green's confession is so depraved, its sadistic details so scary that no sane, responsible adult would consider him for parole.
If the governor didn't read the confession, he is guilty of dereliction of duty. But if he read the confession and still considers Green deserving of parole, he's certainly unfit to hold office. Who would free a madman who beat an 18-year-old woman with Chinese martial-arts sticks, raped her as she barely clung to life, ran over her with his car, then dumped her in the bayou, her hand reaching up, as if begging for mercy?
In usual fashion, Huckabee's office didn't even contact the victim's family about the clemency.
Although he's required to by the Constitution, the governor, as is his custom, won't say why he granted clemency to this crazed killer (over the unanimous objections of the Post-Prison Transfer Board).

I am aghast.

Now, consider Huckabee's belief that we need to stop waterboarding and close the Gitmo terrorist prison in the context of these questionable clemencies. Will he be as soft on the terrorists as he was on convicted violent criminals in Arkansas? I fear so. He's not fit to be President with such a soft approach to those who kill others.