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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The poll that just came out that I cited above doesn’t factor 9 days of Rubio and Bush negative ads.
They will go after each other but they will go after Cruz too. And Carson will be going after Cruz for stealing his votes.
Huck will keep up his tearing at Cruz too.
Trump doesn’t seem to run his campaign like anything we have seen, No Packs, No big ground game, Not spending big on ads. Total spend, Bush, Rubio, Cruz have spent more than Trump. And what they spent for is way different.
Trumps biggest expense is his 757 Jet and renting out stadiums for rallies. Instead of knocking on doors Trump uses social media, phones, emails.
Everyone else spends on consultants, campaign managers, pollsters, Trump doesn’t. Trump doesn’t spend tons of money raising funds, he is self funding his campaign.
Trump gets Free media because he gets high ratings.
Wow. Something is just not right.
And yes, a Trump/Newt Gingrich or Trump/West would be a winning team!!
I can’t believe all the Trump v. Cruz sniping on this forum. Either one of them will be infinitely better than Broomhilda and any president we’ve had since Reagan. I will enthusiastically vote for whichever one is nominated. If it’s not Cruz, he will make a great Supreme Court justice.
I would really would like to see Alan West as VP, but I don’t think he has a chance.
He’s brilliant, courageous- and he ‘gets’ Islam. I’m so sick of PC crippled politicians and others telling us it’s the ROP and about ‘moderate Muslims’.
There are no moderate Muslims.
Watch his answer to a marine here: (short)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkGQmCZjJ0k
Also:
I too would really would like to see Alan West as VP!
Romney needed to be torpedoed....
I am with you on agreeing Huckabee was better than McCain and most of all Romney.
Huckabee has been bought and paid for by Trump.
The Huckster would be lucky to find his belt with that huge gut of his.
Sometimes I really want to like Huck ... then stuff like this, I go right back to despising him. Shame he is a natural speaker but he just can’t quit eating a foot, he may need an intervention
Sometimes. But Huckster IS a fraud and it is well-documented on this site.
Hucksters (and Santorum’s) entire purpose in this race was to try to divide the conservative field to make way for Yeb or Rubio.
They failed and this is why their funders pulled the plug after Iowa.
I don't see any evidence of that. I think once someone has been bitten by the bug, and especially if they actually won a primary, they keep dreaming that lightning will strike again and they have a chance. All these guys have a vision that they could be president. And in the case of Huck and Santorum they had nothing better to do and nothing to lose.
+1
If they didn’t have such a well-documented history of doing exactly what I said, I might agree with you.
But they do have a history of being frauds and used as blockers for viable conservative candidates.
There’s no such history of Huck being a “fraud”, but clearly you are one of the Huck-haters I mentioned.
You mean besides:
The fraudulent cancer cure Huckster sold
Helping out his gay, animal torturing and killing son
Wayne Dumond, rapist
His Action America “charity” which basically served as a template for the Clinton Foundation
His fraudulent “reverse diabetes” scam supplements
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/03/step_right_up_mike_huckabees_cure_for_diabetes.html
And don’t get me started about the lies Huckster has spread about other Republicans.
He’s trash.
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