As Mike Huckabee soared to the top of some Republican primary polls in Iowa late last year, controversies surrounding his tenure as a former Arkansas governor began to surface. One of the most explosive involved Huckabee’s role in the parole of convicted rapist Wayne Dumond, who later raped and killed Carol Sue Shields.
Lois Davidson, the mother of Shields, was featured in an online video that blamed Huckabee for her daughter’s murder. As reported by Wired, that video (watch it below) made its debut on television last night in a Fox News-sponsored debate among the GOP candidates.
At least that’s what folks at The Club For Growth see as the most important legacy of Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas — and they want to make sure Michigan voters know it before they cast any ballots. Here’s the club’s latest anti-Huckabee advertisement airing in Michigan:
Hotline’s editors and James Kotecki of The Politico try to make sense of what it all means after Iowa voters picked Republican Mike Huckabee and Democrat Barack Obama as nominees for the 2008 presidential race.
Mike Huckabee has been climbing toward the top of the Republican presidential polls, but he hasn’t gotten so big for his political britches that he won’t take time for the smaller fish in the big media pond. Today, he joined Ed Morrissey for an interview at Heading Right Radio.
Morrissey posted excerpts of the interview at Captain’s Quarters. Here’s one comment on immigration:
Every person who lives in this country ought to live with his head held up, and not in fear of each other or our own government. … The laws are broken. Fix the law, fix the border, and then if people do come back, they’ll come back with an actual permit.
Huckabee also answered questions about the role of religion in politics — his own as a Christian and those of GOP rival Mitt Romney, a Mormon — and about the proper reach of the federal government, among other things.
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