What a pathetic hit piece. Politicians make mistakes?

OMG! Huck is toast.

Combine this with the fact that he's the most liberal GOP candidate out there and it's reason enough for me to not vote for him.

I don't see how Huckabee survices this - I don't see how he deserves to. Feel sorry for the criminal, to hell with the victims. I would rather have someone who is in love with the death penalty, like George Bush, in the White House, than someone who uses his gubernatorial powers to gain early release for such a scumbag!

The GOP attracted some weird candidates to run for president. Suffering through seven years of a president with credibility issues, now they throw up a candidate who allegedly paroled a rapist, a candidate who sneaks around on his wife, another who's an evangelical religious believer...and then there's Ron Paul, a phone Republican. Hopefully American voters will see through all this crap and keep Republicans out in order to restore "us" with good values.

He who is without sin cast the first stone. Anyone on this perfect? No one at the Huffington Post (now that's an unbiased, non-partisan group) or ABC has ever made a mistake. Find all the dirt you can on the GOP candidates and turn your head when a Liberal Dem screws up. Typical double standards from the Liberal Media. Do me a favor? REPORT THE NEWS!!!! The Dumond Case is not NEW(S)!! Besides can you find a Governor in America that has the power to parole anyone in their state? I'll give you a few moments, take your time and get it right.

Huckabee also could care less about our immigration laws either. He is a illegal alien enabler just like Bush.

Hey investigative team, why don't you investigate the fact that this case is nearly a decade old?

I am still looking for clarification of what motivated Huckaby to advocate for parole of a convicted rapist serving time. Was there any sound reasoning for the decision, any reasoning at all?

Huckabee is not the only governor to release these kind of people (Bill Clinton is a perfect example). There are many Lobbists that push this kind of stuff on our Politicians because they have influence. Still this is another reminder to the public that long term Political figures are not good for the American People because of the influences others can have on them. Pragmatic common sense should prevail but it doesn't.

I have to believe that every gov. has made a mistake like this. Whether they advocated someone's release...didn't respond to a crisis on time...or whatever. Besides, it was the parol board that made the decision...they have responsibility too...maybe more. Huck still has my vote!

Do we really want a President with the name Huckabee???

I'm not a republican and so I have little interest in the outcome of the republican nomination. But I am still curious as to WHY is ABCNEWS jumping on the bandwagon and fanning the flames? Wake UP ABCNEWS: THIS IS NOT JOURNALISM? This is gossip mongering.

I'm campaigning for Mike Huckabee. This story is none other than another candidate attacking Mike. This is ridiculous! If everyone got all the negative facts from every one of the candidates nobody would vote for anyone! Nobody is perfect. If anything Mike Huckabee has learned severely from this mistake and he will NEVER make the same one again and will be even more strict on the acts of justice. This doesn't change my mind about him one bit. I will still pursue campaigning for him, and I hope he wins. I'm asking the public to think deeper than the surface of this situation and know for a fact if indeed this is true, it will NEVER happen again.

No politician, Democrat nor Republican, would or should survive this, no matter who "leaked" it or why. Gov. Huckabee showed very, very bad judgment, and will not last much longer as a candidate.

This is a story that is a decade old in Arkansas. The story does not mention that the parole board was composed of Clinton appointees who had the final say in his release. If anyone knew he would commit another crime, he would not have been paroled. Yes, this was a mistake. Yes, Huckabee is a human being. Yes, he cannot predict the future. But NO, he is NOT soft on crime.

Um...It's not character assassination if it's fact. Check out a dictionary. It's called the TRUTH.

I certainly don't feel as an Arkansan that he should have pardoned this man, but it is quite interesting that this comes to light only after polls show Huckabee leading in Iowa.

"Again, it's too bad, because Huckabee is likely the only person who can truly reunite this country after the great rift that's emerged since the 2000 election."

Huckabee is probably the most polarizing candidate on the Republican side of the fence. Anyone who wants to abolish national science standards so states can put creationism in science class (as opposed to social studies where it belongs) is not going to get the support of rational Americans. He'll probably have the heavily religious vote, but that's not a group known for uniting any country.

This changes nothing with me. He wasn't a murderer when he was released. He had been unjustly treated in prison, castrated and tortured. Huckabee is compassionate. If this is all they can find about him from 11 years of governing, that he recommended the parole of someone that was treated badly who went on to murder, he has my vote.