(VIDEO) Mike Huckabee: Donald Trump Is A Lot More Consistent Than Ted Cruz

By streiff | 3:30 PM on February 01, 2016

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Mike Huckabee.

Mike freakin Huckabee.

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, in a Friday interview, defended Donald Trump’s changing position on abortion while attacking Ted Cruz for changing his views based on polling.

Asked on NewsMax Prime why he hasn’t been critical of Trump’s shift from being pro-abortion rights to anti-abortion, the former Arkansas governor said, “The difference is Donald Trump has certainly changed his view on abortion, he is pro-life now, but you know his view evolved over 20 years, not 20 months, or 20 minutes.”

…Huckabee, who in the final days before the Iowa caucuses has criticized Cruz for his tithing practices, labeling him a “phony” Christian, described the Texas senator in the interview on Friday as someone who changes his views based on polls or where he is speaking.

“What I find troubling is when a person changes their view based on which way the polls go or changes their speeches based on where they are geographically,” said Huckabee, saying his stump speech was the same in Manhattan and Iowa.

“I just think that if a person is going to be consistent then you don’t change what you say depending on where you are,” said Huckabee. “And quite frankly, if Ted claims that he’s the outsider, look at where the money comes from.”

Huckabee said Cruz is a “wholly-owned subsidy of corporate interests.”

Here is the whole disgraceful spectacle:

It would take longer to fisk this nonsense than it is worth. It is only of note because it speaks to Huckabee’s lack of character. I don’t think that Huckabee has been rented with a promise to retire his campaign debt at some future date, what I think burns Huckabee’s rather ample ass is that Iowa evangelicals who supported him in 2008 endorsed Ted Cruz this year. To him this is a personal affront, and it probably should be. Huckabee fits squarely in the Establishment lane in this election when most of the nation is very unhappy. Huckabee’s slathering over his big government philosophy with social conservatism and smarm is hardly a compelling position in this current election.