This is from Powerline on Huckabee's most infamous pardon and deceptive claims regarding it (thanks to www.mymanmitt.com):

The Huffington Post has released additional documents from then-Governor Huckabee's file on Wayne Dumond, the rapist Huckabee concluded should be released from prison and who, after he was released, committed murder. Our friend Byron York, who has been and remains critical of some of the attacks directed at Huckabee over the Dumond affair, has reviewed the documents. He concludes that Huckabee has a lot to explain.

I'll say. The file was provided to Gov. Huckabee by a staffer who didn’t agree with Huckabee’s view that Dumond should be freed (it is this staffer, I understand, who provided the documents that appear on the Huffington Post). The file contains 12 letters written by eight different women, three of whom reported being raped or sexually assaulted by Dumond. It also includes an affidavit provided by the Arkansas state police in which Dumond confessed to a rape for which he was never charged. Thus, far from being a victim of the criminal justice system, there was good reason to believe that Dumond had committed crimes for which he was not serving time. Why Huckabee thought Dumond had gotten a “raw deal” is beyond me, and Huckabee has failed to provide a plausible explanation.

Then, there's the issue of whether Huckabee has been honest in his statements about the Dumond affair. In this post, I argued that Huckabee may well have been less than truthful in claiming that he didn't influence the state parole board's decision to grant Dumond parole. In addition, the documents released by the Huffington Post make a mockery of Huckabee's statement to Tim Russert that he wished he had known more than he knew about Dumond before coming down on the side of his release. The documents in the file provided all the information Huckabee needed to make the correct judgment. Read them for yourself and see whether you agree.

JOHN adds: This deserves to be Mike Huckabee's Willie Horton moment. Just as the furlough of Willie Horton, a murderer who was never slated to be released from prison, revealed the vapidity of Michael Dukakis's liberalism, Huckabee's fuzzy-headed sympathy with serial rapist Wayne Dumond reveals the shallowness of Huckabee's approach to issues of public policy.