[elhombrelibre]

The New York candidate (Trump) is steeped in New York values. Shuck off your first two wives and keep trading down in age till you get one who was a nude model. Party with the Clintons; invite them to your third wedding. Fund liberals. Support abortion, as Trump did until he realized that wasn't going to work with those conservatives who don't have Liberal New York values. His change was temporary and purely situational. He's an opportunist who knows the art of the deal is hyperbole, in his words.

Just as Jeanne Kirkpatrick was right in 1984 at Ronald Reagan's nomination to speak of San Francisco Democrats and values, it's right to point out that there are New York values hostile to the rest of the USA. Donald Trump lives those values, so his feigning anger of the comment is just for show. In his life, he's been a New York elitist with all those boorish, nasty-mouthed insults coming natural to him.

[corlorde]

Woah lol.

[OhioBuckeye]

100% agree. Very nice summation of Trump.

[Trumpinator]

The New York candidate (Trump) is steeped in New York values. Shuck off your first two wives and keep trading down in age till you get one who was a nude model.

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NYC has lower out of wedlock births and is more religious and has less divorces than parts of the south - including the bible belt. New York ranks almost last in divorce rates.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/05/divorce-rate_n_3869624.html

So maybe Trump has southern values.

[plewis1250]

Exactly.

Cruz won Iowa and the south by taking that stance.

Trump cannot see it because he embodies those values.

[RMP]

NY values are essentially San Francisco values. Hatered of police, pro baby murder, homo marriage, huge government and high taxes, etc. No way.

I’m voting for conservative flyover country values and no one embodies those better than Ted Cruz. Go Ted!

[JPX2011]

Brilliantly stated. The faux outrage can only be explained as an expression of regional tribalism and has nothing to do with conservative principles.

Helpful or harmful, Cruz stood fast on those principles. And like the liberals that they are, the supporters of Trump hid behind his skirt and the emotional rhetoric of 9/11. They are pathetic, cowardly little snowflakes who have gone all in on the 2016 election, knowing that they have sold their souls to a cult of personality.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

The difference is that Kirkpatrick blasted San Francisco Democrats specifically, and Cruz went after New Yorkers in general. And he really had nothing to say when Trump responded by playing the 9/11 card.

I like Cruz a lot more than Trump, but that was the biggest misstep he's made so far in a debate. On the other hand, he did a great job with the birther stuff.