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Mike Huckabee is the target of both the Left and the Right today, as news comes that nine years ago, as Arkansas Governor, he commuted the sentence of Maurice Clemmons, the man – hours ago shot dead by police – who is accused of assassinating, execution-style, four Washington State police officers Sunday as they sat drinking coffee in a local diner.

Less than three months ago, the former (and future?) Republican presidential candidate won the straw poll vote for the GOP 2012 presidential candidate at the Values Voters Summit. Had John McCain not beaten him in the April, 2008 primaries, Huckabee would have been the Republican nominee for President.

But now, his judgement is being questioned once again, and he is being “forced to defend his decision” of commuting the sentences of Clemmons and another felon. Via today’s New York Daily News:

“Conservative critics had hit Huckabee during the 2008 presidential campaign over his decision to grant an early release to another convict – Wayne DuMond, who was freed in 1999, only to be accused of raping and murdering two women within a year of his release. DuMond was later convicted of murdering one of the women and died in prison in 2005.”

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“Erick Erickson wrote on his RedState blog. “How many Willie Hortons can one man have?”

Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, and now a FOX News talk show host, as Governor signed legislation outlawing same-sex marriage. He has long been an opponent of gay marriage, gay adoption, revoking “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and revoking DOMA. He has also said he wants to “isolate” HIV/AIDS victims.

But the essence of Huckabee’s problem is simple: All his decisions are based on his interpretation of the Bible. He has, in fact said,

“I believe it’s a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that’s what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards.”

He is a man who believes that, and believes in “forgiving” and setting free rapists and murderers – against the urging of those, like the D.A., involved in the process. But “God’s law,” in Huckabee’s mind, includes banning gays from marrying or adopting.

Let’s not forget that as Governor, Huckabee saw an increase in violent crime, opposed hate crimes legislation, but is proud of his death-penalty record:

“I actually carried out the death penalty 16 times more than any governor in my state’s history.”

All this, and yet four police officers are now dead, as a direct result of Huckabee’s poor and biblically-influenced decision-making.

Unswayed yet? Still think Huckabee should stay in politics, still have a voice in the national media, still be viewed as a good leader? I’ll leave you with this, from Huckabee’s book, “Character Makes a Difference,”

“Our problems do not result from economics or deficiencies in education. They result from the selfish decision to ignore God’s standards of integrity. Standards based on anything else are relative, and relative standards are meaningless. A person with a biblical world view says humans are by nature selfish. We are basically self-centered & look out for ourselves first. Only two things will change this: either our nature will be changed by a supernatural experience with God through Christ, or we will fear the consequences of not doing the right thing. Those who believe God created humans have a different worldview from those who believe humans created God. Politics are totally directed by worldview. That is why when people say, “We ought to separate politics from religion,” I say to separate the two is absolutely impossible.”

As for the murder of the four police officers, Huckabee should take full responsibility, use his vast resources to support their families, then get out of politics, and use his TV show as a pulpit for strict gun control laws, and preaching words of a loving, not gay-hating God.

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The Daily Beast’s Jose Pagliery first reported the filing. The Atlanta Journal Constitution also reports Trump’s attorneys have filed the motion.

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But he added, “if we go up to racketeering, now, this is a really powerful tool the prosecutors use. What you have to do is show two things. First of all, the existence of what we call a racketeering enterprise, that can be a Mafia family, that can be a drug trafficking organization, but it could also be a corporation or a political entity, and then you have to show that they engage in what we call a pattern of racketeering activity, meaning that they committed two or more crimes in an organized fashion, which brings us to this other new piece of information. There’s a third phone call we already know about, of course, the infamous phone call to Brad Raffensperger. ‘I just want to find 11,780 votes.’ There’s also a public recording of Donald Trump talking to this investigator, Francis Watson, when he tells her, ‘when the right answer comes out, you’ll be praised.'”

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“The Republicans are behaving like complete disgraces,” Conway said. “They’re basically saying that, by saying that Trump is being persecuted, they’re essentially saying, you can’t touch Trump and Trump is above the law. Whatever slack you might have wanted to cut a former president, that was gone after Jan. 6. This man is a recidivist criminal, he’s committed fraud all his life, he’s lied all of his life.”

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