Nanny Huckabee: It's not what you did; it's who you are.

Mike Huckabee Pardons Keith Richards.

Richards was fined $162.20 for reckless driving in 1975 after being stopped in tiny Fordyce, 70 miles south of Little Rock, between shows in Memphis and
Dallas.

His car swerved when he tried to adjust the radio, Richards explained, but
police said they smelled marijuana and took him and three others to jail. All
were freed after a Stones lawyer posted bond, and Richards paid the fine by
mail.

Huckabee, who plays bass guitar in an amateur band, said he talked to
Richards backstage at a Rolling Stones concert on March 9. He said he suggested
the rocker apply for a pardon after Richards joked about his past. The governor
even assisted with the necessary form.

But wait; there's more!

"I realized that his impression of our state was marred by a misdemeanor traffic stop," Huckabee said. "I wanted to clear his record in Arkansas as a goodwill gesture."

Asked whether there might be objections from Arkansas voters, Huckabee deadpanned, "Not from anybody with an IQ above plant life."

I had no idea that only plant life was pro-rule-of-law.

So much for law-and-order. So much for equal justice under the law.

Someone please tell me how this is ANY different than Slick Willie's pardoning of his cokehead brother.

Fucking arbitrary and subjective nannystatist. I guess in Arkansas, some are more equal than others.

I wonder whether it was in the Bible or the Arkansas Constitution that he found that it is okay to disrespect the law if you are a fan of the offender.

[More thoughts at Jeff Keezel's Place, It Shines For All, HecklerSpray, Mark A. Kilmer, Mr. Irresponsible's Bad Advice, and others.]