Huckabee Got Hustled by Rapist

I was in the news business so long that it never surprises when a politician–especially one of those politicians oozing morality with which the nation abounds–gets shown to be sweating hypocrisy at every pore.

One such is the sudden political rocket in the Republican firmament, Mike Huckabee, a former obscure governor of Arkansas and a Southern Baptist minister before that. He denies that he arm-twisted the Arkansas parole board to parole a rapist, later a murderer-rapist, Wayne DuMond, because DuMond claimed to have been “born again” in prison.

You can’t spit in a prison exercise yard in the U.S. without spraying a half dozen born-again criminals hustling this divine or that to get them out of the joint because they’ve found Jesus and want to dedicate the rest of their lives to doing His good works.

A minister pal of Huckabee’s fell for it with DuMond and began hustling himself, hustling Huckabee to get DuMond back out on the street.

According to everyone connected with the case, Huckabee did. As governor, he wrote a letter to “Dear Wayne” in the slammer saying he wanted to get Wayne paroled.

Parole board members got the heat from Huckabee. They let ol’ Wayne out. He moved to Missouri: Though he may have cut his own testicles off after he was arrested, some folks in the family of the young woman he raped might still desire to relieve him of the rest of his sexual apparatus.

In Missouri Wayne strangled one young woman for sure, probably another. He went to the pen there without any hope of parole. He died inside of throat cancer. Probably caught that from singing all those hymns.

So what’s all this show about Huckabee? It shows he has a weak mind that’s willing for religious reasons to loose a rapist back upon the rest of us. And now it shows he has, at best, a deficient memory: Nope, not me, I didn’t put the arm lock on parole-board members to let “Dear Wayne” out. They all say he did.

At worst it shows he’s just another liar, a minister willing to cut the truth a bit short to cloak his scramble to lead Sunday prayers in the White House.

If Huckabee gets elected, God help us.