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  • Pro-Huckabee Super PAC Airs New TV Ad (Aims at Cruz)

    01/18/2016 8:10:37 AM PST · by Red Steel · 16 replies
    national journal ^ | January 15, 2016 | Adam Wollner
    Huckabee raises questions about Cruz's Canadian birthplace. Pursuing America's Greatness, a super PAC supporting former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), launched a new TV ad in Iowa that briefly swipes at Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). "New York City or Dubuque, Iowa, there is only one Mike Huckabee," the narrator says after an image of Cruz appears on screen. The spot is backed by a $550,000 buy. (Hotline reporting) GOING THERE. "Huckabee said Thursday that there is a 'convincing and compelling' case to be made that Cruz's Ca­na­dian birth makes him ineligible for the presidency." Huckabee: "It was never a concern...
  • Huckabee: Cruz Should Go To Court To Settle Presidential Eligibility Issue

    01/18/2016 2:53:34 AM PST · by Red Steel · 81 replies
    TPM ^ | January 14, 2016, 8:01 PM EST | Allegra Kirkland
    Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Thursday urged his Republican presidential rival Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to go to court to settle questions about whether he is eligible to run for President. Appearing on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront" after Fox Business Network's Republican undercard presidential debate, Huckabee said that the Canadian-born Cruz should seek a summary judgment from a court in order to prove that he can serve as commander-in-chief. "I didn't think it was an issue until I started seeing extensive and thoroughly detailed articles from constitutional law professors with strong credibility saying that this is an issue," Huckabee...
  • Iowa Caucus Goers Wasting Good Cruz Votes on Santorum/Huck are Doing Conservatism a Serious Disfavor

    01/14/2016 8:46:57 AM PST · by Reaganite Republican · 17 replies
    Reaganite Republican ^ | 14 January 2016 | Reaganite Republican
    just sayin... What's the point of voting for some spoiler polling at 1-3% -both Santorum and the Huckster in the race for dubious reasons anyway, imho. I got to assume such Republican base voters would prefer someone other than Trump be the nominee... and sure can't see what any real conservative wouldn't want to support Cruz as the most credible alternative. Why are people even considering Santorum or Huckabee at this point... nothing special about either of these retreads, really. With Cruz and Trump polling neck-and-neck in Iowa, conservative GOP voters really ought to think about what an extra...
  • Huckabee: Cruz Changing Position on Several Issues

    01/10/2016 9:33:13 PM PST · by Red Steel · 22 replies
    Newsmax ^ | Friday, 08 Jan 2016 02:50 PM | Sandy Fitzgerald
    Candidates who get their funding from corporate contributors and donors who support other candidates will answer to the people who "throw the dollars at their campaigns," GOP candidate Mike Huckabee said Friday, while accusing fellow candidate Ted Cruz of changing his position on a number of issues. He insisted he wasn't suggesting that Cruz is lacking convictions, but told Fox News' "America's Newsroom" that the Texas Republican has changed his position on a number of issues. Candidates who get their funding from corporate contributors and donors who support other candidates will answer to the people who "throw the dollars at...
  • Huckabee: Cruz "Childish" For Suggesting I Drop Out So Conservatives Can Unify

    01/10/2016 9:24:52 PM PST · by Red Steel · 22 replies
    Buzz Feed ^ | Jan. 8, 2016, at 11:56 a.m. | Megan Apper
    "Why not rally around me? Why not rally around Rick Santorum?" Mike Huckabee said Thursday that it's "rather childish" for Ted Cruz to suggest candidates drop out of the race to ensure the conservative voice isn't splintered. Iowa radio host Simon Conway said Cruz's warning that a split in the conservative vote would allowing a moderate Republican to win the nomination could be directed at Huckabee and Santorum. Huckabee replied, "Well, I mean, that is certainly something he is going to want to say, but my question would be, why not rally around me? Why not rally around Rick Santorum?"...
  • Huckabee: Evangelical leaders who didn’t endorse me are afraid I’ll hurt their fundraising...

    01/07/2016 10:26:23 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 11 replies
    Hot Air ^ | January 7, 2016 | Allahpundit
    Via BuzzFeed, I'm trying to think of another case where a member of a movement as prominent as Huckabee is among politically active evangelicals has turned around and basically accused the rest of the movement of being money-grubbing frauds. Because that's what he's doing here, no? Listen to the clip and tell me I'm wrong. Six weeks ago, this guy was desperately seeking the support of many of the same Christian conservative leaders, most notably Bob Vander Plaats, who endorsed him in 2008. But it hasn't gone his way; a coalition of influential evangelicals decided at a meeting in early...
  • Mike Huckabee: 'I Plan To Finish First In Iowa'

    01/07/2016 7:16:28 PM PST · by Red Steel · 52 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 7 Jan 2016 | Alex Swoyer
    "I plan to finish first in Iowa," Huckabee said on Thursday morning. "I know a lot of people have written me off, but they wrote me off eight years ago. They wrote Rick Santorum off four years ago. I'm still counting that we're going to have a big surprise for people on February first." "This is not a surrender. This is an all out declaration," Huckabee charged, adding that he wouldn't be working this hard if he didn't think he can win. "There is no short cut here," he continued, explaining that candidates can send out mailers and buy up...
  • Former Huckabee spokeswoman Alice Stewart joins Cruz campaign

    01/04/2016 10:01:21 AM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 10 replies
    The Politico ^ | January 4, 2016 | Daniel Strauss
    Alice Stewart, the former communications director for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, has joined Sen. Ted Cruz's campaign as a senior adviser, Stewart confirmed on Monday. Stewart said she cemented a deal to join the Texas senator in the past week. She will serve as a national spokeswoman and senior adviser. Stewart's movement comes less than a month after she left the Huckabee campaign amid differing views on the direction of his White House bid. Huckabee's campaign, as POLITICO first reported, recently moved all of its resources to Iowa and the former governor and...
  • Former Huckabee Spokeswoman Joins Cruz Campaign

    01/04/2016 9:23:42 AM PST · by Isara · 7 replies
    Texas Tribune ^ | Jan. 3, 2016 | Patrick Svitek
    Ted Cruz speaks to reporters on the campus of Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C. on Nov. 14, 2015. (Photo by Abby Livingston) DES MOINES, Iowa — A former spokeswoman for ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has joined Ted Cruz's presidential campaign, giving the Texas senator a key operative who worked for the last two winners of the Iowa caucuses. Alice Stewart, who stepped down as Huckabee's communications director last month, is now working for Cruz's team, she said Monday. Her official title is senior adviser.Stewart was also Huckabee's communications director during the 2008 cycle, when he won the Iowa caucuses....
  • Huckabee slams Cruz for telling donor fighting gay marriage isn't 'top-three priority'

    01/04/2016 8:51:52 AM PST · by Gandalf the Mauve · 34 replies
    Politico ^ | 12-23-15 | Nolan D. McCaskill
    Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Wednesday blasted Ted Cruz after a POLITICO report quoted the Texas senator telling a donor that fighting gay marriage wouldn't be a "top-three priority" for his administration. "Conservatives are being asked to 'coalesce' around yet another corporately-funded candidate that says something very different at a big donor fundraiser in Manhattan than at a church in Marshalltown," Huckabee said in a statement released by his campaign Wednesday afternoon. "Shouldn't a candidate be expected to have authenticity and consistency, instead of having to look at a map to decide what to believe and what to say?"...
  • Huckabee Hits Cruz with Whopper Lie; Then Denies It's a Lie

    01/02/2016 9:05:26 PM PST · by TBP · 16 replies
    Last Resistance ^ | January 2, 2016 | Rob Knowles
    A Super PAC supporting Mike Huckabee recently ran an ad that quotes Ted Cruz at a Manhattan fundraiser. The precisely edited clip makes it appear as though Cruz isn’t who he says he is. The recording from which that clip was taken has a lot more to offer. Here’s the actual transcript of the exchange between Cruz and his questioner as provided by Politico: DONOR: “Can I ask you a question? So, I’m a big supporter. And the only issue I really disagree with you about is gay marriage. And I’m curious: Given all the problems that the country’s facing–like...
  • Huckabee Hits Cruz with Whopper Lie; Then Denies It's a Lie

    01/02/2016 9:05:25 PM PST · by TBP · 6 replies
    Last Resistance ^ | January 2, 2016 | Rob Knowles
    A Super PAC supporting Mike Huckabee recently ran an ad that quotes Ted Cruz at a Manhattan fundraiser. The precisely edited clip makes it appear as though Cruz isn’t who he says he is. The recording from which that clip was taken has a lot more to offer. Here’s the actual transcript of the exchange between Cruz and his questioner as provided by Politico: DONOR: “Can I ask you a question? So, I’m a big supporter. And the only issue I really disagree with you about is gay marriage. And I’m curious: Given all the problems that the country’s facing–like...
  • Huckabee Hits Cruz with Whopper Lie; Then Denies It's a Lie

    01/02/2016 12:43:36 PM PST · by Isara · 90 replies
    Last Resistance ^ | Rob Knowles | January 2, 2016
    “Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.” – Nathaniel HawthorneI am profoundly disheartened by Mike Huckabee’s behavior. I was a supporter of his in 2008 because he was clearly the more conservative alternative to John McCain, but a short eight years later, he’s let me down–not because he’s polling at a paltry 1.8%, but because he was willfully dishonest when asked about a recent attack on a fellow candidate.A Super PAC supporting Mike Huckabee recently ran an ad that quotes Ted Cruz at a Manhattan fundraiser. The precisely edited clip makes it appear as though Cruz isn’t...
  • Bernstein: Will anti-Cruz movement rally behind Rubio?

    01/01/2016 4:06:41 PM PST · by BlackFemaleArmyColonel · 18 replies
    The Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 1/1/2016 | Jonathan Bernstein
    National Review's Tim Alberta and Eliana Johnson report a potentially important development: The emergence of an Anybody-But-Cruz-(Except-Trump) movement from the soon-to-be ashes of the Iowa campaigns of Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum. It would seem that some social conservatives, including a few currently supporting the last two Iowa winners, consider Sen. Ted Cruz a "phony opportunist" -- and would rather see Sen. Marco Rubio do well if their own candidates don't have an unexpected late surge. This suggests that reporting indicating that Cruz has wrapped up the support of Iowa Christian conservative leaders may have overstated the strength of his...
  • Mike Huckabee's Selfish Evangelical Campaign

    01/01/2016 10:17:18 AM PST · by conservativejoy · 36 replies
    Conservative Review ^ | 1/1/2016 | Amanda Carpenter
    Back in 2008 on the day of the Iowa caucus, when I was reporting on my first election for Townhall.com, I happened to be grabbing lunch in the same hole-in-the-wall restaurant as then-Huckabee National Campaign Advisor Ed Rollins. He sat in the cafe loudly trash talking the Romney campaign to any reporter he could call on his cell phone. Expletives and insults flew. Anyone sitting in the eatery could hear him. I, stunned any known operative would be so foolish to speak in such a way in a public place, wrote it up as an item. These are the same...
  • Iowa Intrigue: Huckabee and Santorum Backers Reportedly Plotting to Help Rubio Against Cruz

    12/30/2015 9:28:12 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 53 replies
    New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer ^ | December 30, 2015 | Ed Kilgore
    Do supporters of the Christian right candidates Ted Cruz has eclipsed hate him so much they'd sabotage their own heroes? The late stages of the invisible primary would not be complete without reports of intrigue and skullduggery in Iowa, with campaigns forming tactical alliances against common enemies. We have one today from National Review's Tim Alberta and Eliana Johnson, who report that supporters of the last two caucus winners, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, are so bitter at being eclipsed by Ted Cruz that they are conspiring to block the Texan and instead elevate Marco Rubio. There's only one problem...
  • Is an anti-Cruz, pro-Rubio alliance forming in Iowa among Huckabee and Santorum fans?

    12/30/2015 12:15:27 PM PST · by JSDude1 · 70 replies
    Hotair ^ | December 30, 2015 | Allahpundit
    If there is, is there any way to explain it apart from pure spite? Huckabee and Santorum combined are averaging less than three percent in Iowa. Rubio is nearly 20 points behind Cruz in the state. Denying Cruz some extra social-con votes won’t do much to help Rubio but it might be enough to help Donald Trump, the least socially conservative candidate in the race, top Cruz if the caucuses are close. That’s a natural thing to do if you’re angry at Cruz for dislodging your hero as the GOP’s premier evangelical and want to punish him, but as a...
  • In Iowa, Whispers of An Anti-Cruz (And Pro-Rubio) Alliance

    12/30/2015 9:41:44 AM PST · by JSDude1 · 53 replies
    National Review ^ | December 30, 2015 | Tim Alberta & Eliana Johnson
    Some who mistrust the Texas senator may tactically support Rubio over their first-choice candidates. To a concerned and angry bunch of Iowa Republicans, their mission heading into next month’s caucuses is as simple as ABC: Anybody But Cruz. As the Texas senator solidifies his front-runner status with just over a month to go before the February 1 caucuses, a loose network of social-conservative activists has undertaken a quiet effort to defeat him by any means necessary — even if that means rallying together behind a more electable rival to their own preferred candidates. Many supporters of Mike Huckabee and Rick...
  • The GOP Primaries Will Pare the 2016 Nominees Down to These Five

    12/30/2015 6:42:06 AM PST · by TangledUpInBlue · 18 replies
    The Fiscal Times ^ | 12/30 | Rob Garver
    Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has said he will not participate in an “undercard” debate if he is not allowed on the main stage in the next Republican debate, which would be tantamount to quitting the race. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has said that he will bow out if he doesn’t poll in the top three in the Iowa caucuses on February 1. And considering that he is currently in a three-way tie for 7th place in that state’s polling average, there seems to be a good chance that he’ll be gone before New Hampshire votes on February 9.
  • It’s Time For Mike Huckabee To Get Out Of The Presidential Race

    12/29/2015 10:58:19 AM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 37 replies
    The Louisiana Hayride ^ | December 29, 2015 | Scott McKay
    Just like it's past time for Jeb Bush and Rand Paul to get out, and it's past time for Rick Santorum and George Pataki to get out. That's obvious, but it's made more obvious now that Huckabee is resorting to off-base and stupidly dishonest ads attempting to trash candidates who have taken his votes away. Here's a PAC ad Huckabee's camp is running in Iowa... (VIDEO-AT-LINK) The same consulting firm also put out similar attacks on Cruz in Iowa on his opposition to ethanol subsidies and accusing Cruz of being bankrolled by the oil industry....