End of the Road for Huck?
It's not even 2010 yet, but you might want to already scratch a name off the list of Republicans running for president in 2012. Mike Huckabee may be the front runner in early polls, but he faced what is likely to be a catastrophic blow to his reputation. And it happened clear across the country.
Maurice Clemmons, the man suspected of killing four off-duty police officers in a coffee shop in Washington state - who was killed by police Tuesday morning after a two-day manhunt - had been serving a life term in an Arkansas prison when his sentence was commuted by Huckabee, then the state's governor.
Huckabee, who surprised many by winning the Iowa caucuses and outlasting most of his rivals in the 2008 GOP presidential primary, had been accused on the campaign trail of issuing too many pardons and clemencies. He was specifically criticized for releasing Wayne DuMond, a convicted rapist who raped and killed a woman less than a year after he was paroled.
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Maurice Clemmons, the man suspected of killing four off-duty police officers in a coffee shop in Washington state - who was killed by police Tuesday morning after a two-day manhunt - had been serving a life term in an Arkansas prison when his sentence was commuted by Huckabee, then the state's governor.
Huckabee, who surprised many by winning the Iowa caucuses and outlasting most of his rivals in the 2008 GOP presidential primary, had been accused on the campaign trail of issuing too many pardons and clemencies. He was specifically criticized for releasing Wayne DuMond, a convicted rapist who raped and killed a woman less than a year after he was paroled.
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