Recently I wrote a post on the future prospects for the GOP in 2012 elections and one of those at the top of the list, at least for now, was Huckabee…….but now that is a fading prospect……
It seems back in the days of high adventure when he was governor of Arkansas he spent some of his time review inmates cases to see if there should be any changes in their status…..one of those inmates was the guy that just shot and killed four Seattle area police officers that were having coffee…he was later hunted down and killed resisting arrest….but the main thing is that Huckabee commuted his sentence because the man got 100+ years for a robbery when he was 16 or 17….
Why would this be his, Huckabee, death note? If anyone here remembers back in the day when one Dukakis was the Dem candidate that was scuttled by his release of a inmate named Willie Horton, who went out a committed a horrible crime…..this was one of the things that the GOP used to help defeat Dukakis……
You can bet your butt that this will come back to bite Huckabee in the butt…….his opponents in his own party may use it and if he is the nominee of the Party then the Dems will definitely use it against him……his action will NOT be forgotten by anyone that will run against Huckabee…..
Unfortunately, this episode will most likely kill any attempt Huckabee would make to secure the nomination of the GOP……
South Carolina’s Sanford is out…….Huckabee is OUT….the field of Repub wannabes is getting smaller as the weeks and years move on…..