Compassionate Conservative?

Mike Huckabee, compassionate and a conservative? No on both counts. The American Spectator:

In many cases, Huckabee's actions set loose savage criminals convicted of grisly murders over the passionate objections of prosecutors and victims' families.

"I felt like Huckabee had more compassion for the murderers than he ever did for the victims," Elaine Colclasure, co-leader of the Central Arkansas chapter of Parents of Murdered Children, a group that works on behalf of victims' families, told TAS. "He was kind of like a defense attorney. He couldn't see the pain and suffering that the victims were going through."

Among the violent criminals Huckabee granted clemency to were Denver Witham, who was "convicted of beating a man to death with a lead pipe at a bar," according to the AP; Robert A. Arnold Jr., who was convicted of killing his father in law; Willy Way Jr., who pled guilty to shooting a grocery store owner as his wife looked on; and James Maxwell, who murdered a reverend. According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, when the reverend's daughter met with Huckabee to plead that Maxwell be denied clemency, Huckabee "'affectionately referred' to her father's killer as 'Jim.'"

Then there's the chilling case of Wayne Dumond, Huckabee's Horton moment. And these are not the only questionable pardons. Read on.

Huckabee also invites more nasty comparisons to Bill Clinton for pardoning friends and friends of friends. And to Jimmy Carter for showing poor judgment in the face of evil threatening the security of Americans in their everyday lives.