I totally borrowed that phrase from Slogger. Because it's so 1!  Slogger quotes from Newsweek that despite Romney's *You And Me With Our Watered Down Religion Practicing Intolerance Towards the Secularists* speech, Huckabee now leads Romney by a two to one margin.

But one wonders if the people who are judging the candidates are really examining Huckabee's record (and no, I'm not talking about the fact that right-wingers don't think he's really a conservative, but a liberal, due to stuff like the fact his tax-raising record is higher than Clinton's). I mean the pardons he's given, like the one I wrote about yesterday about the rapist he pardoned.. Here's ANOTHER one.

Gov. Huckabee probably never read the confession of a demented killer named Glen Green before he made the monster eligible for parole.
___ Green's confession is so depraved, its sadistic details so scary that no sane, responsible adult would consider him for parole.
___ If the governor didn't read the confession, he is guilty of dereliction of duty.
___ But if he read the confession and still considers Green deserving of parole, he's certainly unfit to hold office. Who would free a madman who beat an 18-year-old woman with Chinese martial-arts sticks, raped her as she barely clung to life, ran over her with his car, then dumped her in the bayou, her hand reaching up, as if begging for mercy?

So why the heck did Huckabee PARDON this man? Apparently because one of his church pals urged him to.

In usual fashion, Huckabee's office didn't even contact the victim's family about the clemency.
___ Although he's required to by the Constitution, the governor, as is his custom, won't say why he granted clemency to this crazed killer (over the unanimous objections of the Post-Prison Transfer Board).
___ Huckabee apparently listened to Green's minister (and a friend of the governor), who thinks the murder was an accident and Green was forced to confess.

The article quoted above has a pretty graphic story of what the man actually did, and it's pretty shocking. So, again, WHY does Huckabee pardon these people?

 As he grants clemency to scores of violent criminals, Huckabee's motives are the subject of speculation: Why, people are asking, is he doing it? After studying the record for several weeks, all one can say is that his actions perhaps reflect a combination of arrogance and avarice and ignorance.

Update: to be precise, Huckabee pushed for parole but the parole board, after being pressured by him, actually did the pardoning. More on this in an upcoming post where the parole board talks about that time.