“How smart is it to go out and piss off the nation’s largest city and hometown of your biggest opponent?”
You must not be from the South.
Southerners know exactly what Ted said and meant, and their strong propensity for Social Conservatism was the target Ted wanted. Those Southerners who were ready to pull the lever for Trump will be thinking about whether he has the true social values they strongly believe in.
And exactly how many votes was he going to get from the bastion of liberalism NY anyway?
Cruz is very, very smart on this.
“Southerners know exactly what Ted said and meant, and their strong propensity for Social Conservatism was the target Ted wanted.”
I am a Southerner and I do know what Ted said and meant. He said and meant that phrase “New York values” to pander to the voters in Iowa. His organization did research on that phrase in Iowa before it was rolled out. He never mentions that he goes to those same people in New York that he sneers at in Iowa — homosexual donors, and pledges not to fight gay marriage.
Later on, he will come South and talk about deportation of illegals, which he finally, half-way, talks about and will neglect to mention that he is taking large sums from the open border crowd of donors, who are smart enough not to throw their money away on a candidate who opposes their “values”.