Mike Huckabee: Ted Cruz ‘A Lawyer’ Not ‘A Leader’
by Alex Swoyer 13 Jan 2016Washington, DC
GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee separated himself from one of his GOP competitors
during a campaign stop in Iowa, where he said Cruz is a good lawyer, but the
United States needs a leader.
“Look, Ted’s a great lawyer,” Huckabee said. ”But I don’t
think America needs a good lawyer right now, it needs a good leader. My
question to you would be: Can you name me what efforts [Cruz] has been a leader
in? He’s been a senator. He’s been a lawyer and a lobbyist…What has Sen. Ted
Cruz (R-TX) 97% done in his life that prepares him to the President
of the United States?” Huckabee – who rarely speaks ill of his competitors –
wasn’t shy about separating himself from Cruz.
Huckabee’s statement about Cruz occurred during a
discussion with Marion Avenue Baptist Church Pastor Joseph Brown, according to the Des Moines Register.
“Brown, who started a coalition of Iowa pastors who
support Cruz, began the conversation with a question about why the candidate
has said Cruz tailors his comments about same-sex marriage to the audiences he
addresses,” reports Des Moines Register’s Kathy Bolten.
Huckabee was referencing a report by Politico that
suggested Cruz spoke differently about traditional marriage as a priority while
campaigning at a fundraiser event in New York.
Brown said that Cruz and Huckabee are saying the same
things on the campaign trail. However, Huckabee disagreed.
Huckabee argued that Cruz said, “He would leave marriage
issues up to the states and therefore would not support a federal marriage
amendment,” adding, “He knows, like good lawyers do, how to say things that
sound almost the same as something else.”
Kathy Bolten reports the exchange between Huckabee and
Brown occurred in front of more than two-dozen people.
“Huckabee pressed Brown several times to explain when
Cruz has been a leader. Brown cited Mojave Memorial Cross, a case Cruz argued
before the U.S. Supreme Court,” Bolten reports.
“He fought and won that issue,” Brown responded. “He’s
stood up for the Second Amendment.”
Huckabee then replied, “Sounds like he’d be a great
lawyer. I’m asking you, what has he done that gives you reason to believe he
would be a great executive, which is a very different job than a lawyer.”
Brown answered, “That’s what I like about you — you’ve
been an executive for 10 years.”
Brown reportedly caucused for Huckabee in 2008 when
Huckabee won Iowa.
Des Moines Register
Geneva
Overholser was an editor for the Des
Moines Register, a professor at the Annenberg
School for Communication, and a director at the Center for Public Integrity.
Note: Marc B. Nathanson
was a board of councilor’s member for the Annenberg
School for Communication, a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and is a trustee at
the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Barbra
Streisand Foundation was a funder for the Center for Public Integrity, and the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, aco-chair, national finance council for
the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), and
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), the Millennium Promise,
and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Alliance
for a Healthier Generation was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation is a co-founder for the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.
Mike Huckabee was
a co-chairman for the Alliance for a
Healthier Generation, the Arkansas
state government governor, the president of the Arkansas State Baptist Convention, a pastor at the Immanuel Baptist Church (Pine Bluff, AR),
is a presidential candidate for the 2016
presidential election, an advisory board member for Secure America Now, and married to Janet Huckabee.
Arkansas
state government was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Chuck
Hagel opposed nomination for Defense from Secure America Now, the chairman for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and is the Defense
secretary for the Barack Obama
administration.
Janet Huckabee is
married to Mike Huckabee, and was a secretary
for the Habitat for Humanity
International.
Jimmy
Carter was a volunteer for the Habitat
for Humanity International, and was an honorary co-chairman for the Millennium Promise.
ONE Campaign is
a partner with the Habitat for Humanity
International.
Michelle Obama
was an advocate for the ONE Campaign.
Howard G. Buffett
is a director at the ONE Campaign, and
Warren E. Buffett’s son.
Susan A. Buffett
is a director at the ONE Campaign, and
Warren E. Buffett’s daughter.
Warren E. Buffett
is Howard G. Buffett & Susan A. Buffett’s father, and an adviser
at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the
United States
in war)
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Ronald L. Olson
is a director at the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and the founding chair for the Annenberg School for Communication.
Geneva
Overholser was a professor at the Annenberg
School for Communication, a director at the Center for Public Integrity,
and an editor for the Des Moines
Register.
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