Talk about a "Hit Job"

So, Huckabee thinks "none of us couldn've predicted what Dumond could've done when he got out." Hey, I could have predicted it... past behaviour is a pretty good indicator of future behaviour!

Wasn't DuMond's original victim a distant cousin of Bill Clinton's? I thought that was why he became such a cause celebre of the right.

I'm glad to see Huckabee's sleazy manueverings re DuMond under a big media spotlight.

It is sad that this happened, but I fear we aren't getting the whole story, or the truth. I find it increasingly difficult to trust polititions, now that I hear what they say and realize that it's all just vote fishing. They'll tell you what you want to hear to get you to vote for them. The question is in the evidence used to originally convict the man. If it is proven to be handled incorrectly or false, then I can see Huckabee's reasoning. But if it was legit and handled properly, then he was convicted fair and square, so Huckabee's reasoning is incorrect. Either that or Huckabee and the man were friends. It's too early to tell.

The investagation needs to continue, but until it ends, blaming Mike Huckabee is stupidity. A man was released and then raped and murdered again... this is not Huckabee's fault. If for some reason Huckabee truely put pressure on the board to release him then maybe he should be held accountable. For this mother to jump to conclusions and make statements like this stupid. Grow up and wait to see what is truely going on.

The lead paragraph in this story states that Huckabee freed Dumond. A misleading statement. Dumond was freed by an autonomous parole board. If the members of the parole board had felt that Dumond was a danger, they could have kept him in prison. When the members of the board try to lay the blame for their decision on Huckabee, they show the weakness of their own character.

Did we learn nothing from Bush/Dukakis?? One mistaken pardon and we erase the thousands of good decisions Huckabee has made? Wow, it's no wonder the "good guys" won't run for office...if the public will only focus on one mistake and not consider the many good things a candidate has done in the past, why would anyone consider running for President???

I agree...why aren't these judges that let these creeps loose on the general population held accountable for their actions? If somebody gets 25 yrs. then why isn't he still there? Parole should not be granted because it undercuts the sentencing. This creep should've been given the chair anyway.

Cross him off too, I guess. Just don't vote, you Republicans. Stay home. God forbid you ever even think of voting for a competent Democratic candidate. Naw. Just stay home next election day. Stay home.

take the credit and get the blame. Huckabee in charge when Dumond released so it is 100% Huckabee's fault. It's always the top dog's fault and that why he get the big bucks..... superior judgement, he don't have it....

nate - You're an idiot. Show some compassion, for God's sake. Shame on you.

Gov. Huckabee is a decent man, and you should be ashamed to spread this kind of slime around. Besides being factually incorrect, your story ignores the fact that governors deal with hundreds of parole cases, and holding anyone responsible for what hundreds of different people do after release is an impossible standard. Why don't you run a story about how Mike Huckabee saved the lives of many hurricane victims from Louisiana after Katrina?

Dumond was castrated while in jail before he was convicted of the first rape - some felt he was punished enough after that - I'm not a Huckabee fan but he didn't know that Dumond would do what he did to that poor woman in Missouri -

Well, the mudslinging had to happen sometime. This is just awful and I certainly feel for Ms. Davidson's pain. Maybe it's a good sign for Huckabee that it took this long for something to surface. Look deep enough and you'll find the skeletons in everyones' closets. I don't really think that this does enough to discredit the former governor, but nevertheless, that's terribly sad story.

Mike Huckabee will win in spite of this sort of desperate mudslinging.

Duh. Huckabee is obviously evil. He's just foaming at the mouth to set some murderers loose!

Sorry to hear. Obviously the sentencing of life plus 25 years shows that the court could predict his behaviour and did everything it could to keep him locked up. My question is why was Huck so hot to free this guy? They say he exerted pressure for the release -well then, who exerted pressure on him? These
pushs for a release do not come out of the clear blue sky. Makes we wonder who got to him and why he was such a soft
touch on this. What is the whole story? What went on? These news reports are so half a..ed and just tease the reader.

Huckabee needs to man up if he is responsible, as Miss Davidson claims. I am so sorry for your loss, ma'm. May God bless you and your family and all her friends. Stories like this are so heartbreaking.

What I want to know is why is this story the most prominent on the front page, and yet not one word about the Dem fundraiser Hsu indictment? Or the Cantwell(D)aide sex arrest?
Spread the slime around equally, ABC.

Ignorance is bliss and stories like these are written to appeal to those that are bliss filled.
How is it the Gov.'s fault? And does this young woman's mother blame the parole board as well?

May Carol Sue rest in peace!