Posted on 02/10/2016 4:23:14 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Huckabee also called Cruz's tactics "below the belt."
Mike Huckabee is no longer running for president, but he is still criticizing Ted Cruz -- this time attacking Cruz's campaign for spreading a report on the night of the Iowa caucuses suggesting Ben Carson would be dropping out of the presidential race.
"Ted Cruz apologized for his campaign spreading a false story that Ben Carson had dropped out of the race but he deflected blame to CNN," Huckabee said on his pay-per-view podcast this week. "Dr. Carson, being a good Christian, accepted the apology on a personal level, but he didn't buy Cruz's claims of innocent intentions. As usual, Donald Trump was more blunt, he accused Cruz of stealing the caucuses and said there should be new vote." Huckabee continued, "I can attest to the fact that even in our campaign there were many efforts to try and say that people shouldn't vote for me or Rick Santorum or Ben Carson. The Cruz people said it would be a wasted vote and they should vote for Cruz. It wouldn't have made a difference for any of use but it is the kind of low-life, sleazy politics people truly get sick of."
In the final weeks of his campaign, Huckabee took to attacking Cruz, running ads in Iowa accusing the Texas senator of being a "phony" Christian and raising questions about his tithing history.
In another podcast this week, commenting on Saturday's GOP debate, Huckabee again called Cruz's tactics cheap. "Ted Cruz also took flack for his campaign tactics in Iowa and his unpopularity in Washington and most of them quite deservedly, especially for the last-minute and late hit, below the belt hit, on Ben Carson in Iowa," Huckabee said.
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it would make me be happy to see a 50 percent or less unfavorability rating for Trump is he is to be the nominee.
but one has to consider that this rating doesn’t mean every person who views him in a bad light isn’t going to vote for him.
i know several that have no great love for him but will pull the lever for him in november.
Is it true that Huckabee is a better guitar player than Keith Richards?
as Trump says “Huck” who?
Nah, but he may be able to give Bill Wyman a run for his money on bass.
LOL!!
Yeah, exactly.
Some people are really stuck on stupid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv5m4hTMuWU
I would pay money to see Wyman.
as most say :)
Neither is the rest of America, Mr Huckabee. After Iowa all honest Americans are disgusted with Ted’s tactics. Disgraceful.
Ted is a dirtball politician. He’s exploiting children in his latest video. WTF?
How DARE Cruz suggest a vote for Cruz was better than a vote for Huckabee! What does Cruz think this is, a political race? Where is Huckabee’s trophy for trying? Huh?
Cruz is SLIME! < / sarcasm >
He'd just better make certain he's kissing the right arse.
I’ve found on doing research, too many articles like this below. Just too much smoke not to be any fire:
Alumni, roommates, law clerks, former staffers in the George W. Bush campaign and White House (and the president himself), members of Congress and others who have known Cruz  lots and lots of people all consider him socially awkward, nasty, dishonest
a blatant apple-polisher and all-around creepy guy. You can write off a few of these critics as jealous of his success, or liberal antagonists, but all of them? There is something badly amiss here. Cruz, who so obviously lacks emotional intelligence, cannot recognize it, but those closest to him surely must see that something is awry...
No show Cruz
Ted Cruz the senator: Heard but not seen
The Texas Republican seriously lags most of his colleagues in attending hearings and casting votes.
Ted Cruz came to Washington two-and-a-half years ago pledging to be the anti-senator. But he’s been more like the no-show senator.
The Texas Republican seriously lags most of his colleagues in attending hearings and casting votes in what has been a Senate career long on rhetoric and short on Senate business.
He’s skipped the vast majority of Armed Services Committee hearings, is below-average in attendance on his other major committees and ranks 97th during the first three months of this year in showing up for roll call votes on the Senate floor. ... -Read more: Ted Cruz the senator: Heard but not
seen
Then there’s this:
The more I research, the worse it gets.
I can no longer support Cruz for VP.
Trump/Newt Gingrich or Trump/West Now THAT’S a winning team.
Why would a socialist phony like the Huckster like a Constitutionalist like Cruz. He will gravitate toward fellow socialist Trump, of course.
Huckster hasn’t seen below his belt in decades.
So if Ted’s disapproval was less than Trump, why didn’t he beat Trump in NH??
Ha!
Shut up Huck. No matter how hard you try to act like a preacher, deep down you’ll always be a used car salesman.
So says the slimy two faced, so called preacher, seen him in action too many times so he has no room to talk.
Bill Wyman’s 2015 album release was in my top 15 of the year out of the 200 or so that I paid significant attention to. Quite good. I’m about a third of the way through his autobiography now. He and Charlie Watts were the only sane members of the Stones.
he beats trump one to one. but there are many others in the race.
and perhaps he doesn’t beat trump one to one anymore.
like i said, a portion of those who view trump unfavorably will still vote for him.
also, i’m not the brightest bulb and that’s a tough question!!!
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