Huckabee: 'I'll Leave GOP, Become Independent'

Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee warns he'll leave the Republican Party if it stops opposing same-sex marriage and abortion.

"I'm gone. I'll become independent. I'll start finding people that have guts to stand. I'm tired of this," he told the American Family Association's radio show.

His comments follow the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision not to take up gay marriage.

"I am utterly exasperated with Republicans and the so-called leadership of the Republicans who have abdicated on this issue when, if they continue this direction they guarantee they're gonna lose every election in the future," Huckabee said. "Guarantee it."

"And I don't understand why they want to lose," he continued, "because a lot of Republicans, particularly in the establishment and those who live on either the left coast or those who live up in the bubbles of New York and Washington, are convinced that if we don't capitulate on the same-sex marriage issue and if we don't raise the white flag of surrender and just the accept it as inevitable, we'll be losers."

"I tell you," Huckabee said. "It's the absolute opposite of that."