Mass. pardon case at center of GOP storm

Source: bg

Romney has blanketed the airwaves for two weeks with ads proclaiming that Huckabee granted clemency requests 1,033 times while Romney "never pardoned a single criminal." The less-funded Huckabee, however, has traveled the state with his own message about pardons - telling crowds Circosta's life story and asking whether they would pardon him. Almost all say they would.

Huckabee's point is clear: Romney is so hardhearted and politically calculating that he would deny a deserving veteran a chance to improve his life just because "he wanted to brag that he never, ever gave out a pardon" when he ran for president.



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One thing that I can agree - "Romney is hardhearted and politically calculating"

The governorship of Massachusetts was merely a jumping board for him. He has no interests in serving the people, except his own wet dream of vanity.

He deserves to lose all his money and his ambition; and be sorry on himself the rest of his life.

need mercy in their punishments. As a minister/preacher (what have you), Huckabee is bound by his religious convictions to keep that in mind. Romney does not. Most Mormons (let me make it clear that I did not say "all") have an attitude that emphasizes "frontier" style justice (and picking themselves up with their bootstraps) which is a code word for having no mercy for anyone who can't manage on their own (read GOP pride and joy). So Romney comes from the Republican school of thought that if you are poor, destitute, criminally minded, or other such "failing" you don't deserve compassion because you haven't tried hard enough to be "all that you can be."

I don't like Huckabee's politics and would rather die than see a member of the religious right in the white house, but in this case, Huckabee has a little more honor than Romney. Besides, in Romney's case, any man who would do what he did with the family dog deserves to be in the same cell in prison as Michael Vick.

of them should be in the White House. Because of Romney's economic elitism and love of the upper classes and hatred of the middle and working class, I would take Huck over him, even though I think either one would be terrible.

So these two fuckwits can clobber each other over the head with their idiotic attacks in a perpetual game of one upsmanship over who is the meaner son of a bitch all while posturing as devout christians.