Posted on 01/14/2016 10:37:58 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Ted Cruz, by my lights, was doing pretty well in this presidential campaign until he started attacking Donald Trump for having "New York values." What in the Statue of Liberty do you figure the tin-eared Texan could've been thinking?
If he was thinking.
Just on the numbers, after all, being a New Yorker is nothing for which any presidential politician needs to apologize. New York has produced more presidents than any other state -- seven out of 43 total. (Yes, Barack Obama is No. 44 -- because Grover Cleveland, an ex-sheriff of Erie County who became mayor of Buffalo and then governor, was both the 22nd and 24th president.)
The list includes three other ex-governors, Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt and Martin Van Buren. Add in the wily Whig, Millard Fillmore, and our one-time port collector, Chester Arthur (who, some insist, was, like Cruz, born in Canada).
To what, if not New York values, does Cruz attribute such electoral success -- the vapors of the Hudson? Could it not be that New York values are actually perceived as a virtue across our glorious land?
It's not entirely clear, either, that The Donald is evincing New York values. He's running a protectionist campaign on trade and immigration. Those planks are about as far from New York values as it's possible to get.
New York's is a capacious and welcoming spirit, symbolized by the Statue of Liberty astride New York Harbor. In rankings of diversity, New York state beats Texas, and New York City tops any major Texas town.
Cruz has lately been grumbling about the neoconservatives (a movement launched largely by New York intellectuals). He lashed out the other day at the "billionaire Republican donors" who "actively despise our base."
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Well, this isn’t looking good is it.
Yuge mistake.
I guess millions of folk in CA don’t score on his values rating either!
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Maybe Ted can smirk about Pearl Harbor next. What a poser. Disgusting.
New York was also capital before Washington DC.
I’ve been sure of it for some time.
I know folks think Trump is the Beast from Revelation, but I have seen Ted as a very slippery guy.
This isn’t the way to go out, but it just as well now.
I don’t know yet how much this will really hurt him.
It will be interesting to watch.
No problem. He will do what Trump did when he called Iowans stupid, will walk it back.
We in flyover country knew exactly what Ted meant.
That’s right!
People diss New York the way people diss Irish Americans. With the same results. The New Yorkers are as American as anyone else. They’re Americans. Yeah, they fall for liberals. And that’s annoying. But if you present them with a sensible candidate whose logical, assertive and acts their gender, they’ll be in
They went for Reagan and they’ll go for trump. Dissing them is silly and bigoted
I am just grateful to have Trump because Cruz probably couldn’t debate Hillary if he can’t even beat Rubio. Anyway, we still have two weeks to see what happens. I bet Cruz wishes he didn’t brag about his debate skills.
He should have just walked it back right there. Why didn’t he do that? He knew it was coming.
Cruz is as bad as 0bama. He has disdain for his fellow Americans and is dumb enough to show it on national television. He’s too immature to be president.
He was born 1 1/2 years after the Apollo moon landing. Those of us that remember watching the moon landing should not that Cruz wasn’t born yet. We don’t need another inexperienced kid in the White House.
I loved when Cavuto hammered CRuz, in after debate interview....”What were your advisors thinking?” Lol!!
“He’s too immature to be president.”
Agree. Good man but not his time.
He asked him that???
Hick bigotry will not win this election
I’ve had quite enough of Texans and Mississippians discounting me for being a New Yorker. It’s a bad tack
See, that’s why it wasn’t smart to play up he was going to win Iowa either. That was a bush league mistake also.
What happens if you lose? You just wind up with egg on your face.
I agree that Trump will fight much better.
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