Reply #2: That's some family values.

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Not only does this reflect very badly on Huckabee, it reflects badly on the fundamentalist Christians who agitated for this murderer's release. It shines a light on the corruption in the relationship between the national fundamentalist evangelical movement and the Republican Party.

Mr. Huckabee met with the board in 1996 to lobby them to release the convicted rapist, Wayne DuMond, whose case was championed by evangelical Christians.

“He expressed his concerns about DuMond’s guilt,” said Deborah Suttlar, a former parole board member. “He felt he deserved to be released.”

Mr. DuMond went on to murder a Missouri woman after his parole. He died in prison of natural causes in 2005.