Michael Gerson made the case yesterday in The Washington Post:
Some professions involve decisions about life and death. When treatment by a doctor results in death and suffering — as treatments sometimes do — we ask whether the initial choices were reasonable or negligent. The standard applied to governors making clemency decisions should be the same. Huckabee’s choice allowed a tragedy. But that does not make it unreasonable.
New poll today say Huckabee undamaged, remains front runner: http://mikehuckabeepresident2012.blogspot.com/2009/12/public-policy-polling-huckabee-still.html
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Huckabee’s choice did not produce a tragedy. Huckabee’s choice made it possible for numerous law enforcement agencies to make the wrong decisions in the years following. Those who are making an issue of Huckabee’s role don’t care about the families of the murdered policemen, they only want to make sure that a Christian who cares more about Main Street than Wall Street never becomes President.