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Huckabee Slams Cruz For Telling Donor Fighting Gay Marriage isn't 'Top-Three Priority'
politico.com ^ | 12/23/15

Posted on 12/23/2015 6:16:38 PM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: Texas
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To: Helicondelta

Huck’s butt-hurt over that endorsement Cruz got. But this stinks of Rubio.


81 posted on 12/23/2015 7:45:50 PM PST by moehoward
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To: alancarp
Not gonna flame: it’s a recognition that while GWB did a whole lotta good things, he left us set up for Obama in so many ways.

Fair enough.

I've been thinking about that lately -- esp. the TARP thing. It is possible to my way of thinking, and recollecting the events which I followed closely from the financial services industry perspective, that he was discharging his duties as he saw them as president; that to hamstring the effort to shore up the system (whether one agrees with that effort or not) would have been a shameless dereliction of his duty. I'm sure he knew quite well who was coming into office but after all, that person had been duly elected and the American people were about to get what they wanted.

82 posted on 12/23/2015 7:47:55 PM PST by o_1_2_3__ ( –)
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To: alancarp

I mean to say that his oath of office and his ethic left him no choice.


83 posted on 12/23/2015 7:49:25 PM PST by o_1_2_3__ ( –)
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To: Helicondelta

Yeah, Huck, make sure you make your other two points Wipe out the common cold and No More Cockroaches. Because gay marriage isn’t going away.


84 posted on 12/23/2015 7:51:36 PM PST by Yaelle (Since PC is not actually "correct," it should be renamed Political Pandering.)
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To: moehoward

I think butt hurt alone covers it.

Remember how Huckabee and his staff muscled Cruz out of the shot during the Kim Davis rally? He’s got a real sense of entitlement when it comes to evangelicals. See his whining about how his support for members of “the Group” didn’t buy him their endorsement. He sees this as his chance of exploiting a contrived issue to appeal directly to evangelicals.


85 posted on 12/23/2015 7:53:24 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: Helicondelta
Trump says he's evolving on gay marriage
86 posted on 12/23/2015 7:53:50 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Helicondelta
Trump didn't support Kim Davis's religious rights
87 posted on 12/23/2015 7:55:16 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Helicondelta
Trump's Secret Liberal Past
88 posted on 12/23/2015 7:57:59 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: BwanaNdege

NEVER trust Politico.

They are best monitored at distance. Any campaign that speaks to them is likely on less than a quarter of a tank.
89 posted on 12/23/2015 7:58:33 PM PST by SunLakesJeff (Life)
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To: Helicondelta

At the rate the country is going, if we do not elect a leader who can crush the illegal immigration, crush the rampant spending by congress and crush the islamic threats to our homeland; gay marriage wont even be up for debate because there will not be a homeland left to even sponsor homosexuals marrying.


90 posted on 12/23/2015 7:59:10 PM PST by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: Helicondelta
Donald Trump Called Tax-Hiking Liberal For Past Positions
91 posted on 12/23/2015 7:59:16 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Helicondelta
Club For Growth Calls Donald Trump a Liberal
92 posted on 12/23/2015 8:01:12 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Helicondelta
Donald Trump's By Far the LEAST Conservative of the GOP Field
93 posted on 12/23/2015 8:02:33 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: sam_whiskey
Wasn’t Huckabee about to drop out a few days ago? What’s the hold up?

I heard that he lost out on a job to the ShamWow guy.

94 posted on 12/23/2015 8:02:56 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Helicondelta
Donald Trump is a Liberal
95 posted on 12/23/2015 8:04:14 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Isn’t Club for Growth one of Ted Cruz’s big donors?


96 posted on 12/23/2015 8:04:23 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: Duchess47

No. I am doing this because the story poster is a Trump supporter playing dirty by stirring up trouble for all other candidates. I hate that.

I have no idea who Club for Growth supports. As far as I know, no one yet.

I just want to make posting smear threads in support of Trump not worth it. I know you and others are pro Trump and I’m not out to get your candidate. I am out to make a point with the poster.


97 posted on 12/23/2015 8:07:28 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Give them their ObamaCare like the rest of us sods. They’ll either go quietly or quickly, their choice.


98 posted on 12/23/2015 8:07:54 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Changed)
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To: tanknetter

“Kim Davis rally?”


Oh that’s RIGHT! Forgot about that.


99 posted on 12/23/2015 8:08:54 PM PST by moehoward
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Yes, they are one of Cruz’s donors.
Club for Growth $705,657
https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=Career&type=I&cid=N00033085&newMem=N&recs=20


100 posted on 12/23/2015 8:10:37 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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