Rapist released under Huckabee later committed murder

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Republican, has long been a favorite of the right-wing media - and even more so now that he's running a serious presidential campaign. His rise of late shows he's someone else we need to keep an eye on - especially as he's becoming one of the top choices of the spittle crowd.

Today, Fuckapee tried (unsuccessfully) to disavow his involvement in the case of Wayne Dumond. Dumond, a convicted rapist who was paroled while Huckabee was governor, later terrorized and killed a woman in Missouri. In 1996, while Dumond was serving time for raping a teenager, Huckabee proudly proclaimed his intent to commute the rapist's sentence. Fuckapee then privately met with the parole board, which promptly released Dumond on parole - only a few months after rejecting his parole. A condition of this parole was that Dumond had to move to another state.

After Dumond won his parole, he was convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering a woman near his new home. Dumond later died in prison.

Fuckapee now tries blaming the whole disgusting matter on Bill Clinton.

This story has a familiar ring, doesn't it? In 1988, the GOP made an issue of one William Horton leaving prison on a furlough while Democratic standard-bearer Michael Dukakis was governor of Massachusetts. Blaming Dukakis, however, was bogus: Dukakis actually abolished the furlough system Horton abused, and this system had been put in place by a Republican predecessor - not by Dukakis, as the Republicans claimed. But the Mad Dog Bush campaign's slander of Dukakis went almost completely unchallenged by the right-wing media. Of course. (Even back then, the right-wing noise machine had its ugly mouth stuck open.)

How lovely of Mike Huckabee to intervene on behalf of a convicted rapist and turn him loose on another state. After Wayne Dumond was paroled, Fuckapee actually sent him a letter congratulating him. Huckabee wrote, "My desire is that you be released from prison. I feel that parole is the best way for your reintroduction to society to take place." My desire is that Mike Huckabee be placed in a mental institution. I feel that institutionalization is the best way for Fuckapee's removal from society to take place.

Huckabee now claims he stopped supporting Dumond's release well before he got paroled, but that letter proves otherwise.

A vote for Mike Huckabee is a vote for rapists and murderers. Huckabee is soft on crime.

(Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071030/ap_on_el_pr/huckabee_parole)