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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Trump is a lock for winning the New York Republican primary.
Trump doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning New York in the general election; not as long as he has an “R” behind his name.
New Yorkers can be as butt-hurt as they want. If they want respect from conservatives, stop electing communists.
You’re sweet. Thank you!
Amazing isn’t it? I grew up in NYC. I avoid it now like the plague.
Just WHO are you calling a “LIBERAL”, you damned n00b?
I’m a plain speaking, well bred, CONSERVATIVE ex-pat New Yorker. :-)
“Guess trump supporters will rush to move to new york and enjoy the heavy foot of big govt on their backs”
Okay.
Guess cruz supporters will rush to say horrible things about trump, who happens to be a natural-born-citizen from Queens, NY. You don’t expect Trump to defend his state???
>> he once had some supporters there.
I still like Cruz, but New York is Trump’s to lose.
Regarding NYC’s ultra-liberalism, Staten Island, one of the 5 NYC boroughs just south of Manhattan, virtually split the Presidential vote in 2012.
New York is “huge”. And it’s both liberal and conservative. It’s a great state, but too expensive.
TRUE!
No, this has backfired big time on the Canadian.
:)
Why are you taking what he said out of context?
He was talking about New York Values, they are not conservative values, no matter how many conservatives have come out of there.
Sheesh, defensive much?
Cruz did no such thing; that's just you uninformed, biased opinion.
FDR, now THERE is a President to hold up. Not.
Nanny Bloomberg is another New Yorker.
You’re dead wrong!
He’ll win N .Y., N.J., Pa, and perhaps several N.E. states as well.
BTW, like it or not, it was not Texans who sneered at the rest of the country with the term, "Flyover Country"...
Obama won about 2 million votes in just New York City. Romney got about 400,000. So New York values which are being defended here at FR gave 80% of their votes to Obama and now New York values are FR values. Go figure.
Just as your opinion is uninformed and biased. Except my opinion is not based on emotionalism or name calling.
Lol.
The vast majority of the residents of New York City. Are you disputing this?
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