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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I disrespect anyone who says “diss”.
Granted, he should have said, "New York City Political Values", which would have properly defined his target in irrefutable form...
It’s a fatal mistake for a presidential candidate to diss any of the 50 states, even if he/she believes they won’t win said state.
Bad form in the extreme, and New Yorkers are the type who will never let him forget it.
I know politics; especially N.Y. and NYC politics; I c ut my baby teeth on it.
I still have friends and a dwindling family there ( CONSERVATIVES ! )and so yes, I know what's what.
who run New york???? Cuomo and Decommio. Hitlery was senator. Schumer is senator...so many Democrats running it into the ground. Thats new york values and you got to pay them off to be in business.
Guess trump supporters will rush to move to new york and enjoy the heavy foot of big govt on their backs
I'm a Texan, and I've got nothing but love for my fellow patriots from New York. I'm also a refugee from California, so I truly get where you're coming from :-)
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahaha
You now live in faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar lefty Mass., do ya, you LIBERAL, you? ;^)
So how do YOU liked being stereotyped?
Cruz is monotonous. He had to stop thinking that he is inside court or college debating society.
No connection with public, no emotion, complete flat.
That’s because you are an intelligent, very nice man, my friend!
Okay, great.
I’m outa here...
Night.
Bigoted?
P.C. much?
Well sure he did, but you gotta admit - it came out all wrong in the way he said it.
Elections are all about perceptions, and Ted just created a bad one for himself.
That’s very true and he’s also VERY much over rehearsed.
Night, Doughty...pleasant dreams.
Get back to us, after you manage to learn how to write a cogent, coherent post, with proper grammar.
Can’t read, can you?
Do you prefer biased, judgmental, or pathetically STUPID ?
I don’t doubt that they’re good people. There are plenty of good people who are liberal politically. Nonetheless they repeatedly favor having government control their lives.
I read quite well.
Doesn’t your nic stand for Texan in Mass. ?
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