Huckabee Slams Cruz For Telling Donor Fighting Gay Marriage isn't 'Top-Three Priority'

politico.com ^ | 12/23/15

[Helicondelta]

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?"

Cruz's stance, expressed privately to a group of moderate Republican donors in New York earlier this month, seems to contradict his public statements. In June, for example, he told NPR that gay marriage opposition would be "front and center" in his campaign. But in July, he rejected a Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality, insisting marriage is a state issue.

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

GO TRUMP, GO!

GO HUCKABEE, GO!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Huckabee is a big government puke who hides behind his "Christianity" as an excuse to push taxing the crap out of people and redistributing their wealth.

Do you honestly support that?

[Chauncey Uppercrust]

No Huck has proved to be as dishonest as you on this

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

GO TRUMP, GO!

GO HUCKABEE, GO!

[gov_bean_ counter]

So you support the big government puke. Glad you cleared that up.

[catnipman]

and yet a third post by you about this same subject!

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

GO TRUMP, GO!

GO HUCKABEE, GO!

[catnipman]

“Is Politico paying people to share this non-story? I have seen it posted everywhere today.”

What you are seeing is Helicondelta posting this exact same story here multiple times from different media outlets.

[Vendome]

Blow it out yer continent sized arse...

[ConservativeTeen]

That poster thinks Bill Clinton was a decent POTUS (http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3357549/posts?page=98#51)...

[gov_bean_ counter]

Very telling.

Thank you.

[demshateGod]

The president doesn’t get to define marriage anymore than 5 reprobates.

[CPT Clay]

Who?

[John Valentine]

And that is supposed to matter to me exactly why?

[John Valentine]

You said that already. Nonsense repeated is still nonsense.

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

GO TRUMP, GO!

GO HUCKABEE, GO!

[SmokingJoe]

Yo Mike, I hate gay marriage, want it done away with, but it's not my top three either. Not with ISIS, Obamacare, Obama’s massive list of unconstitutional executive actions and a plethora of urgent national issues needing to be addressed.

[sunrise_sunset]

There will be more tapes don’t worry.

[CA Conservative]

How many times are you going to repost different versions of the same non-story?

[Carry_Okie]

"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?"

Shouldn't a candidate be expected not to take a statement out of context in order to make an issue of it? Cruz is Constitutionally correct on the question of gay marriage: it is a matter of Federalism. Let States who want it sink into the pits and while those who don't get to watch.