Mike Huckabee personally pardoned a guy with a long and violent criminal history who, if police suspicions turn out to be true, just killed four cops. Mike Dukakis was governor of a state whose parole board released a man, a fact of which Dukakis was probably unaware, who then went on to commit murder. Dukakis was attacked unmercifully, and the press picked up on the story, to the point where he was asked a question during a debate that presupposed that he had no sympathy for the victims of crime (he blew the answer, of course). What are the odds that this story will dog Huckabee? Not great, given that this is at least the second guy he pardoned (the first story is even worse, given Huckabee’s motivations) that went on to commit murder.
Bill Clinton was roundly criticized for grounding an airplane in order to get an expensive haircut. The fact that the story was untrue made no difference. We never heard the end of John Edwards’ $500.00 haircut, and we never heard the beginning of how much Willard Romney pays for his. Nor will the fact that Sarah Palin is doing her bus tour from the comfort of a private plane make a dent in the national conversation, any more than has her shameful use of her child as a stage prop.
There’s a bit of a pattern here. Can you spot it? It’s just the way it is.
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