Posted on 01/19/2016 12:02:23 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
After the GOP debate last Thursday night the big issue was "New York Values" and the next day it looked like New Yorker Donald Trump had dealt with the issue by invoking the shades of the fallen 9/11 heroes.
But now it all comes clear to me. "New York Values" is how Ted Cruz intends to take the air out of Donald Trump's balloon. It's obviously a strategic decision that the Cruz campaign has thought long and hard about. They intend to flood the airways with negative ads showing that Donald Trump is, at heart, just a New York liberal with an unusual haircut and a great reality show.
Yes, you say, but these negative ads from Cruz will just make the Trumpers angry. That's true, but the purpose of negative ads is not primarily to change minds but to drive down the morale and the turnout for the opposition. And that's how the barrage of New York Values negative ads will work. Sure, they will make the Trumpers angry. Don't you get angry when the liberals run negative ads against Republicans on your conservative talk radio station? But the ads will also drive down the enthusiasm of the Trumpers; they will sow tiny seeds of doubt. They will drive down the turnout of the Trumpers. The only question is: how much?
You can see, from Ted Cruz's Friday phone-ins on the day after the debate, that there's also a positive side to the New York Values meme. Talking to Sean Hannity and others on the first day of his apology tour, Ted Cruz hit the heads of the nails he will be driving in over the next month....
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Worked so well Cruz lost his lead in IA.
Did he? Iowa is traditionally hard to predict with polling because of the caucus process. But you keep reassuring yourself that Cruz doesn’t know what he’s doing and that Trump’s publicity stunts will seal the deal.
According the RCP average. You’ve been touting his lead in one state for weeks, and since the issue of Ted’s Canadianess came up he’s lost that. Coincidence?
We shall see, nicht wehr?
Yah, we’ll see, eh?
I lived in Iowa from 1974 to 2002, save for my time in the service and helped run two presidential campaigns and was a long-time volunteer at the Polk County Republican headquarters (where I was their top fundraiser) and etc. My sources tell me that Cruz is doing everything one should do to win the caucuses and that no other candidate comes even close.
9/11 plane’s landing gear found wedged ‘by Ground Zero Mosque’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3012961/posts
This posted back in 2013 and it ticks me off THAT MUCH MORE that it was neglected.
So many outrages, so little time!
Most New Yorkers hate that mosque, but they don’t write the ‘NY Values’ manual, do they?
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