Pataki Knocks Huckabee For ‘Mocking’ Transgender People

Former New York Gov. George Pataki speaks at a Republican Leadership Summit, Friday, April 17, 2015, in Nashua, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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Former New York Gov. George Pataki (R), who recently announced his 2016 presidential bid, on Tuesday criticized former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s (R) recent comments about transgender people.

“Now I wish that someone told me that when I was in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE,” Huckabee said earlier this year.

Pataki said that while Huckabee’s remarks were “meant in humor,” he should have showed more respect.

“I think the more important point is we should give people their dignity and let them make their own decisions,” Pataki said on CNN. “If someone chooses a path that’s different than mine, we should respect it as opposed to mocking it or in any way trying to prevent that.”

The former New York governor echoed his CNN remarks on Twitter, referencing Caitlyn Jenner, the Olympic athlete and television star formerly known as Bruce Jenner who recently made her post-transition debut.

H/t Mediaite

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  1. Pataki said that while Huckabee's remarks were "meant in humor," he should have showed more respect.
    

    Yeah, it’s a laugh riot to be equated with a pedophile, particularly by someone like Huckabee who is so quick to defend a known child molester.

  2. “I think the more important point is we should give people their dignity and let them make their own decisions,” Pataki said on CNN. “If someone chooses a path that’s different than mine, we should respect it as opposed to mocking it or in any way trying to prevent that.”

    Well said.
    This is precisely why I won’t make fun of Governor Huckabee and his family for their morbid obesity.

  3. Pataki had virtually no chance in hell of getting within a light-year of the nomination before he said this, and he sealed the deal with this statement. The GOP base will not be happy.

  4. Not only that, but if anyone were to ask him if he’d help to fight for transgender issues if he became President (which is laughable since that’s never gonna happen), or like Obama has, he’d be the first to walk that back…because most likely he never did have that particular concern anywhere on his radar, let alone among his priorities.

    All these Republicans running are frauds. They all want the same narrow-minded shit. Low taxes, shrinking government and eliminating public service workers out of existence, increasing fossil fuel as an energy source, getting rid of the social safety net and privatizing Social Security for Wall Street, railing against a deficit they helped to create, and more war…anywhere on this planet but preferably in their favorite place…somewhere in the Middle East.

  5. Avatar for fgs fgs says:

    These are two former governors who intend to ask for my vote for President of the United States, for Christ’s sake. Going at it like two anonymous trolls in the newsgroups. At least the character limit makes their flame wars a little shorter.

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