I think I fear Huck most of all.

seein' as how jeebus-lovin' huckleberry mike set free the raving maniac (who thinks himself to be jeebus) who killed four cops in washington state last week, he's gonna duck down for awhile until this whole thing cools off...

Why would anyone want to be governor of Michigan?

Now that Huckabee has his very own Willie Horton, he would be wise to sit this one out.

The proposed RNC "purity test" is struggling to pick up support from party leaders.

Funny thing, I thought the "8 out of 10" requirement was actually less strict than base Republicans had been demanding. That is, you could be anti-gun and pro-choice, as long as you abide by the other 8 planks.

Vote for Mike Huckabee! Because if you let yourself get scared because he has a bad habit of releasing violent criminals who wind up killing innocent women and police officers, then truly the terrorists have won.

Huckabee is now Huckaby-by.
His pal Maurice Clemons who appears to have wasted 4 cops in WA and is on the run has seen to that.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/11/025054.php

This is not Huckabee's first embarrassing parole. There was also the rapist Wayne Dumond who raped and killed a woman in Missouri after Huck released him and kicked out of Arkansas. Starting to see a pattern here.

Huckabee's had his own Willie Horton for years (Wayne Dumond). It didn't seem to bother him much in 2008. 2012 is a long ways away.

I'm a bit surprised he's not running for Senate next year. Lincoln is supposed to be vulnerable but none of the Republican candidates so far are very impressive.

Anybody know the Clemmons background. Was Huck following the dictates of a religious leader as in the Drummond case or were there other reasons?

Ron, the only thing I've seen is that Huck granted clemency due to Clemmons' youth (17) at the time the crimes were committed.

Why would Huckabee be less likely to run?

Check out the stories on the murder of four cops outside Tacoma, Washington over the weekend. The "person of interest" is a man whose lengthy prison sentence Huckabee commuted when of was governor of Arkansas. It's coming back to haunt him.

I sure am unhappy to see all these pols backing Capuano in Massachusetts. I am not surprised though that they would be backing a "good old boy" straight out of the Massachusetts state house.

What Massachusetts, and the country, doesn't need is another career politician whose only goal will be reelection.

In re Huckabee, another one of the violent criminals he pardoned while governor went on to rape and murder in 2007. Yet does anyone remember that being brought up in re his 2008 presidential campaign?

Crickets.

@ Ron Byers - Re: Clemons background; See 27 page PDF here:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2009/11/30/2010388798.pdf

Notice the Xtianist pandering in the doc titled "Brief in Support of cClemency Application". It is way too odious to have been exclusively authored by a prison inmate with an 11th grade education.

Also Notice on P. 27, The HUckster's signature on the "Commutation of Sentence"

And yet, if the Republicans run Huckabee, I have reason to believe he'll win.

really, there's not much need for Ralph Nader to run in CT when Peter Schiff has already announced his intention to run. he'll beat Nader at his own game quite thoroughly.

I find that pretty hard to believe.

I don't. Huckabee is one of the smarter ones. I think he can figure out that unless the economy hasn't recovered significantly in three years, whoever the GOP nominates is going to get pummeled by Obama, and whoever loses that race isn't going to be nominated in 2016, when chances are better.

Even at 75 Nader can't get over himself. He won't win, but like 'Joementum' likes the limelight, and hates the Democrats How many times will Nader be the spoiler? He is the best stealth candidate the Republicans could hope for.

Nader has already disgraced himself several times over, and one would think that in his dotage he might want to salvage what little of his reputation is left. If he becomes the turd in Connecticut's political punchbowl he will become the contemporary Harold Stassen: a historical footnote, and the punch line for late night monologues.

If he becomes the turd in Connecticut's political punchbowl he will become the contemporary Harold Stassen: a historical footnote, and the punch line for late night monologues.

He already has that status. But your comparison to Lieberman is apt: Nader's got the same emotional pathology. He isn't anything now but a crazy old man, standing on street corners and yelling at passing cars.

@ rRk1 on November 30, 2009 at 3:48 PM

Nader has already disgraced himself several times over,

How???

By being right about everything from the Corvair to corporatist greed to Climate destruction and beyond?

Maybe if you type that nonsense 10,000 times it will become true.