I think McLame is going to pick Huckleberry for VP

[miles 2 go]

to get the evangelical vote and because there are no republicons that don't have skeletons in their closets.

Anyway, what dirt do we have on the huckster?

[Motown_Johnny]

1. Besides being a Bible thumping lunatic? He was once very fat...

[Joe Bacon]

24. Oh, HUCK SINN® has a very big Skeleton closet!

http://www.realchange.org/huckabee.htm

[mikekohr]

27. MIKE HUCKABEE’S WILLIE HORTON

Republican presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee, the former governor from Hope, Arkansas, is hoping you don’t look in his closet because there's a Willie Horton hiding in there.

Huckabee's Horton, is a monster named Wayne Dumond. A criminal with a long rap sheet of assaults, and sexual molestations, Dumond was an admitted participant in massacre of a Cambodian village when he was stationed in Vietnam. Upon return to the United States, he admitted to participating in a claw hammer murder of a fellow soldier in 1972. Dumond was convicted of sexual molestation of a teen age victim in 1973 and confessed to a rape charge in 1976.

Huckabee, ignoring Dumond’s reprehensible criminal record, bought into the Clinton hating, rightwing, partisans, that were attempting to smear Bill Clinton for the rape of a 16 year old girl high school cheerleader that Dumond kidnapped at knifepoint, raped and terrorized for two days. Dumond was convicted of this crime in 1985 and sentenced to life plus 20 years.

Huckabee worked, against the advice of the parole board and law enforcement officials, to secure Dumond's release from prison. Dumond's 16 year old victim, Ashley Stevens, upon learning of Huckabee's attempts to free her assailant, met with the governor and said she put her face inches from Huckabee’s and said, “This is how close I was to Wayne Dumond. I will never forget his face. And now I don’t want you ever to forget my face.”

Undaunted, governor Huckabee toiled on, eventually securing Dumond's release from prison on the condition that Dumond move out of Arkansas. Dumond complied, and moved to Missouri, where six weeks later he raped and murdered, 39 year-old Carol Sue Shields. Dumond was convicted of Shields’ murder based on DNA evidence. Dumond died, peacefully in his sleep on 9/7/2005, before he could be brought to trial in the rape and murder of a second victim, Sara Andrasek.

Dumond’s murders committed after Huckabee had secured his release from prison resulted in a firestorm of public condemnation. The governor responded to the criticism by denying he had anything to do with turning Dumond loose on the American public, in spite of voluminous testimony to the contrary.

Blind adherence to rigid political ideology, an absolute refusal to accept advice from others and stubborn refusal to accept responsibility for his own actions, has not served George W, Bush well as a President. These shared character defects will not wear well on Presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee either.

Ironically, or perhaps predictably, Huckabee is emerging as the consensus choice among so called Christian Conservatives. Go figure.

Written by: mike kohr 10/29/2007

Additional links:
http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=154e1aad-fd18-4efd-8d80-b5dab8559419
http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/sexual_assault/severed_penis/7.html http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/rash-devious-incapable-of-admitting.html

Published at BuzzFlash.com:
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1406#comment-8209

[bluestateguy]

2. Wayne "the Eunuch" DuMond

Bring it on bitch.

[miles 2 go]

5. splain please. n/t

[bluestateguy]

10. OK

Wayne DuMond raped a woman in Arkansas who happened to be a distant relative of Governor Bill Clinton. While he was out on bail two goons stormed into his house and castrated him. His balls were then put into a mason jar which was kept on a county sheriff's desk.

Mike Huckabee had DuMond paroled by using his influence as governor over the parole board. There was considerable pressure from the Freeper Right to set him free on the bogus notion that he was "framed" for rape by the so-called Clinton death squad (you know those same people that "murdered" Vince Foster and Ron Brown, etc).

Well in Missouri, where DuMond had moved, he murdered and raped a woman. He was convicted and died a couple of years later in prison.

Arkansas is not in play in this election, but this story will get a lot of play in the swing state of Missouri if Hucklebee is the pick.

[miles 2 go]

11. thanks for filling me in

I had looked him up between the splain request and your reply but they didn't mention the balls in the jar part.

So we have that and he took lots of gifts in Arkansas as reported by a duer earlier today who was tying him to the gwaney murder.

Starting to look pretty good.

I don't think the republicons have any real good choices. We were able to get rid of a few republicons last year by bringing up their dirt. I don't think any of them are clean.

[dkf]

3. After he got that blowback on Lieberman/Ridge for VP, he has been scared to the right.

The man has zero integrity.

[jimlup]

4. This will be perfect to finally bury the reblicon's shit

Huckleberry is a total yahoo. So we'll have a senile out of touch coupled with a popularist yahoo.

If so I can say!

YAHOO!

Of course I may be overestimating the intelligence of the typical American voter.

[miles 2 go]

7. unfortunately, I think we do overestimate the intelligence of the typical

American voter.

I noticed when I was young and had privy to the applications that people put in for work at a fast food place, that the average applicant was pretty dumb. I guess it's still so with adults.

[AndyTiedye]

13. They Might "Win", and We Would Be Totally Fuckabeed!

If McAint picks Fuckabee and then gets (s)elected and croaks in office — instant theocracy.

[grantcart]

6. may be right

in any case it seems clear that Ridge is off the list

[OmahaBlueDog]

8. I had a similar discussion yesterday. I think it will be Sarah Palin

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6640887&mesg_id=6643228

1) She's young (44), and he needs youth
2) She's an anti-choice woman who has a bunch of kids and is raising a Down Syndrome child; fundies will adore her* (see 5)
3) She's a governor
4) I think she can be an effective attack dog
5) She opposes same-sex marriage, but vetoed a bill denying benefits to same-sex couples. Ordinarily, this would piss off fundies, but given (2), they'll overlook it.
6) The Hillary wedge; try to pick off disaffected women who wanted Hillary
7) She's pro-oil (hubby works for BP), and she'll be peddaled as an energy expert
8) Life member, NRA
9) Alaskan dovetails with the maverick image they want to sell

[miles 2 go]

9. I can't imagine he would pick a woman n/t

[StevieM]

14. I replied to that post...I totally agree. I think he will pick Palin. (eom)

[nsd]

16. I'd be really surprised if it were Palin.

1) She's been governor of a sparsely populated state for less than two years. If McCain picks her, he can kiss the "experience" argument goodbye. And given McCain's age, he desperately needs a VP who looks like they'd be ready to take over on day one. Palin is not it.

2) She had a newborn just a few months ago. She's not likely to be ready to hit the campaign trail next month. And because her newest kid is so young and has special needs, people are going to be skeptical, even if they thought she was qualified, that she could handle the job if elected.

3) There's a scandal brewing about her involvement in an attempt to get her former brother-in-law fired from his job as a state trooper.

[OmahaBlueDog]

18. Counterpoint

1) Granting that what you say is true, she isn't any more "unready" than Pawlenty, Fiorina, or Jindal
2) It's a sparsely populated state that's at the crossroads of the drilling debate
3) Lots of women go back to work after a few months. Palin is a politician; campaigning is what she does. If she wasn't going to quit being governor to take care of her child, then I'm guessing she has a plan in mind for care.
4) She hits pretty much every key demographic weak point for McSame -- younger voters, fundies, women
5) I've heard about the former BIL issue; I'm not sure I see it turning into anything major

[tinrobot]

21. In the middle of a scandal and from a state that doesn't count much.

He needs to pick a candidate that will help carry a state or region.

[OmahaBlueDog]

28. With respect, I disagree

McSame needs to ensure that fundamentalist/evangelical conservatives, who have been the backbone not just of voting, but organizing for GOP candidates, don't decide to sit this one out. These folks don't like Obama, but they've made clear that McSame isn't their kind of guy. That's a voting block that cuts across all states and regions.

[IntravenousDemilo]

12. Well, there's the thing about his dog-torturing son.

And you know what they say, the apple falls not far from the tree.

[flamingdem]

15. GAK I'm moving to Cuba, those two glib monsters will appeal to the low infos nt

[AllentownJake]

17. The Huckster has had his taste of money now

He has lost the desire for Public Service and now wishes to be on Fox news. Huckster never wanted to be President. He just wanted the media attention to market himself. He has said himself he would not serve in a McCain cabinet.

[McCamy Taylor]

19. Interesting you should ask. I have a link to a page in Hucks Army in which they collected all the

dirt they could find about Huck from Arkansas and there is a lot of it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6646108

This is the thread I started earlier. The thread itself is speculation that the shooter supported Huck and he could have targeted the Chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party because he was a vocal critic of the Huck who was in a good position to spill all the dirt about him. If you go to the first reply, I copied and pasted a long thread at Huck's Army in which someone posted copies of a series of critical articles about Huck from Arkansas newspapers detailing the many "gifts" he received from wealthy people (in other states they would be called bribes), the way he resisted open records laws, the way he tried to change gift disclosure laws etc. Huck has a record at odds with his saintly image.

Even if the shooting had nothing to do with Huck, it is more likely that the GOP did it than the Clintons did it, which is what the police in that state are attempting to insinuate by doing nothing and letting everyone speculate. A guy like that is no threat at all to the Clintons or the Dems but a big threat to a former Arkansas Republican governor with VP aspirations. Maybe if people start talking about this case in relation to someone besides the Clintons, the police will hurry up and investigate the shooter and figure out what the hell was going on, so that the bloggo-sphere will stop assuming it was Clinton related (which makes no god damned sense).

[SKKY]

20. Good Lord I hope so!!!!

That will turn of soooooooooo many undecideds and independents.

[Alexander]

22. I think you're right.

We can throw a lot at Huckabee, particularly his comment that AIDS victims should be quarantined.

[saltpoint]

23. It could be Huckabee, although it places McCain in a position where

he is even less a "maverick" than he is now, and a lot of independent voters are edgy around anybody with even a faint trace of hellfire and brimstone about them.

In Huckabee, it would be a lot stronger than just "faint."

But I hear you, because what choice does he have? Ridge brings in a few people, because compared to the rest of the Republican veep list, he appears halfay sentient, even though I think he's thick as a brick. But if McCain picks a pro-choicer for the ticket the Dobson-types will stay away in droves.

[shayes51]

25. No, I think he tipped his hand last night.

I think he's going to pick Meg Whitman.

[miles 2 go]

26. OMFG America for sale on EBAY! n/t