Huckabee pardoned Keith Richards (yes that Keith Richards) when he was gov.

[Hamlette]

apparently it was controversial even though the crime was only reckless driving.

Huckabee was on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me this morning, the "Not My Job" segment. As much as I want to hate him, he doesn't drive me crazy. Yes, I know he is a religious looney but he doesn't seem to be an ideologue like the others.

[acmavm]

1. Bill Maher has had him on four or five times. I guess he sees Huckabee

as one of the least looney of the repubics.

[Kajsa]

2. Interesting..

Huckabee was a guest on Bill Maher's two weeks ago.
He can listen and reason.

That is something.

[Avalux]

3. Hes in a band. Probably a huge Stones fan.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Huckabee is more religious than I'd like

but he doesn't seem to be mean-spirited. I like that about him.

[Matariki]

18. Jimmy Carter is very religious too. Knows how to keep his religion personal

wonder if Huckabee is like that?

[cali]

5. I enjoyed Huckabee

He was witty, relaxed and focused. Good thing he'd never be nominated, because he's a religious nut- albeit one with a sense of humor.

[hisownpetard]

6. Keith Richards was GOVERNOR?

[supernova]

7. Huckabee is a garden variety minister

the kind I'm used to around here. Way more conservative than and the totally political opposity of me absolutely. But he does seem to have a genuine love for people. And doesn't begrudge people their differences.

[valerief]

8. He chose to side with the Republican Party. Enough said. nt

[gaspee]

9. Huckabee seems all right

I'm about as anti-religious on a theoretical level as a person can get- mostly because it produces people like Falwell and Phelps and Bin Laden. But it also produces people like Huckabee who seems to be a genuinely nice person. I still wouldn't vote for him because he wants to make laws so the rest of us have to live by his beliefs.

But I don't think he's scum like most of the Republicans.

Like I've said before, I don't care what an individual believes. You can believe in the three headed purple godess of toto for all I care. What I do care about is when that individual is making policy for the rest of us based on their religion.

[durrrty libby]

10. Yuckabee is the worst kind of scary because he comes across

with his aw shucks persona.

Isn't there some kind of scandal with his son?

[trashcanistanista]

12. Huckabee scares the sh#t out of me and

I can't for the life of me figure out why he isn't in the top tier or at least number one for the rethugs. I only hope and pray he stays down there for the remainder of the campaign season.

[spanone]

11. huckabee was a bass player, bass players can't be president. it's law

[trashcanistanista]

13. Thank god for that!

I forgot about that law!!! I feel better already.

[dbt]

15. He was a DRUMMER before he was a bass player!!!1

Oh, the HUMANITY!

[trashcanistanista]

16. OMG a DRUMMER???1!!1

Did this come from Larry Flynt? Does anyone else know about this?!1!1??? Stick a fork in him. He's done.:wow:

I'll be able to sleep through the night tonight.

[Rageneau]

14. Huckabee pardoned Wayne Dumond, too -- a white Willie Horton

Remember what the GOP did to Dukakis about Wille Horton?

Huckabee is even MORE vulnerable to criticism for pardoning the Arkansas-version of Willie Horton, a creep named Wayne Dumond. Huckabee took this action as the result of an intense campaign by Free Republic. The Freepers wanted convicted rapist Dumond let out of prison on the basis (get this) that the sherriff who arrested Dumond (and was alleged to have castrated him) was a distant relative of Clinton.

In "Freepthink," anybody connected to Clinton is bad and guilty, and anybody in opposition to such people is good and innocent. So the Freepers howled and howled and howled about how unfair it was to keep poor little Wayne Dumond locked up when he had done nothing except cross the Clinton "Crime Family."

So the Freepers wrote their usual chain letters and sent their usual blast faxes, and made their usual incessant phone calls and eventually got Huckabee (who was fatter and much more of a redneck back then) to let Dumond out of prison. Whereupon Dumond soon moved to Missouri where he raped and killed two women.

Dumond is Huckabee's Achilles Heel, and the only protection he has from it is America's incompetent, arrogant, corrupt and co-opted nation press.

So I guess he can breathe easy, huh?

[Matariki]

17. He's a seemingly likable guy. Wouldn't want him for President but that's no reason to hate him.