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Huckabee Aide Physically Blocked Cruz From Getting Into Kim Davis Money Shot
Talking Point Memo's Livewire ^ | September 8, 2015 | Tierney Sneed

Posted on 09/08/2015 6:32:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The first Republican primary is months away, but in the race to see which GOP candidate could make the most of the legal battle over a Kentucky clerk's refusal to grant same-sex marriage licenses, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee emerged a winner Tuesday, thanks to the efforts of an aide to block 2016 rival Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) from joining Huckabee at Davis' side.

Both presidential candidates were present at the rally at the jail holding Kim Davis, the Rowan County Clerk. But according to a New York Times report of the day's events, a Huckabee aide physically stood in Cruz's path to Davis' side as she and Huckabee appeared in front of the media after her release from jail:

When Senator Cruz exited the jail a throng of journalists beckoned him toward their microphones, but an aide to Mr. Huckabee blocked the path of Mr. Cruz, who appeared incredulous.

Moments later, Mr. Huckabee appeared, joined by Ms. Davis. He stuck close to her side as she approached the reporters, and again when she took the stage, and cast her fight as a choice of tyranny or religious freedom....

(Excerpt) Read more at talkingpointsmemo.com ...


TOPICS: Kentucky; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: cruz; huckabee; kimdavis; tedcruz
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Sorry you’re wrong.... “We” don’t need no Huckabee.


41 posted on 09/08/2015 6:58:31 PM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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To: Bullish

Preach it brother! (No pun intended...)


42 posted on 09/08/2015 6:59:15 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If the Huckster wanted to best advance Christian conservatism, he’d drop out and endorse Cruz.


43 posted on 09/08/2015 7:00:07 PM PDT by I Hired Craig Livingstone (DT16. Deal with it.)
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To: Sasparilla

The Huckster paid for the microphone?


44 posted on 09/08/2015 7:00:38 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current devices...one uses Brit spel now.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Elmer had class plus he didn’t need props such as a gitfiddle. Hucklebuck best go give a trailer-park a bad name.


45 posted on 09/08/2015 7:00:38 PM PDT by Huaynero
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To: usconservative

Got it. You are holier than dog snot.

Now, Cruz has specifically put out the most principled opposition to this woman’s situation I have seen from any candidate. Whether or not his visiting her benefits him, he has taken an unpopular position and clearly explained his reasoning for it. In the final analysis, if he didn’t push his way through the Huckabee aide to the microphones, your charge of grandstanding is specious.

Finally, I stated what your words appeared to mean to me. I did not try to tell you what your words mean to YOU. Your holiness decided I had to be upbraided in order to get “attention” from you, should I deserve it.

At least, that is what the words you wrote (as opposed to what you possibly MEANT to write) actually convey.


46 posted on 09/08/2015 7:04:13 PM PDT by MortMan (The rule of law is now the law of rulings - Judicial, IRS, EPA...)
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To: usconservative

Just wow. You’ve been here since ‘98? If I’m doing the math right, that makes you at least 17!

(but judging by that last post, you’re not much OLDER than 17. You must have been a precocious toddler.)


47 posted on 09/08/2015 7:05:28 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: usconservative

Huck definitely overstepped.

(And my expressing my opinion on your manner of communication isn’t an attack. It is a response in kind! LOL)


48 posted on 09/08/2015 7:05:47 PM PDT by MortMan (The rule of law is now the law of rulings - Judicial, IRS, EPA...)
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To: MortMan
Finally, I stated what your words appeared to mean to me.

So it's my fault you have a reading comprehension problem? Ok, got it. You're on the list of people I shall not waste my time responding to.

Thanks.

49 posted on 09/08/2015 7:06:15 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Nervous Tick
Just wow. You’ve been here since ‘98? If I’m doing the math right, that makes you at least 17!

Sit down and be quiet, noob. Noobies are to be seen, not heard.

50 posted on 09/08/2015 7:07:39 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Did you read some actual quotes or statements from Cruz whining? Or are just extrapolating from the author’s commentary, someone who is probably more than happy to sow dissention among Conservatives. And as for Huckabee? Huck no!He can go back to shilling for ‘the diabetes solution kit’.


51 posted on 09/08/2015 7:08:43 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: usconservative

You might want to buy a dictionary, and perhaps a writing style guide to clear up that communication problem you have.

It’s funny, but your “about” page says you have issues with conservatives attacking each other. I responded in kind to your own words (and I think I do sarcasm better than you do, but everyone has an opinion), and here you attempt to insult my reading comprehension!

One might think your about page was a hypocritical statement of self-righteousness or something...


52 posted on 09/08/2015 7:09:42 PM PDT by MortMan (The rule of law is now the law of rulings - Judicial, IRS, EPA...)
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To: MortMan; usconservative

53 posted on 09/08/2015 7:12:20 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Bullish

That’s the best explanation of why The Huckster kept Cruz out.

He wanted to use it as a campaign snake oil commercial.

Having Cruz in that video would not work.


54 posted on 09/08/2015 7:13:18 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: Nervous Tick
"It's working superbly. By midnight they all will have killed each other."


55 posted on 09/08/2015 7:14:04 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That is a pretty gross headline.

And I would have rather had Cruz not race to this scene. I disagree with how meaningful that clerk’s behavior was.


56 posted on 09/08/2015 7:14:57 PM PDT by Yaelle (Trump would make a Gorbachev tear down a wall.)
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To: Bullish

Not a Huckabee supporter, but I wonder if Huck was one of the campaigns that reached out to Cruz to go to the Rally tomorrow with Trump and got turned down? Maybe payback? I don’t know.


57 posted on 09/08/2015 7:15:34 PM PDT by parksstp ("Truth is NOT Rhetoric" - Sen. Ted Cruz (The obvious conservative choice for POTUS))
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To: BigEdLB
Huck better tell his staffer, identified as
Richard Cranium, to show some manners.

This is the first time I've seen that particular iteration of the
notorious eponym, and it is now my favorite, by far.

58 posted on 09/08/2015 7:17:23 PM PDT by skeptoid (I'm a sucker for pulchritude)
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To: parksstp

They are having a rally. Anybody can “show” up.


59 posted on 09/08/2015 7:18:07 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: Yaelle
And I would have rather had Cruz not race to this scene.

Race?

I have read that Cruz was planning to show up BEFORE it was announced she was being let out.

I don't remember seeing anything about Huckabee showing up until the Judge decided to let her out.

60 posted on 09/08/2015 7:21:16 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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