Posted on 01/14/2016 7:59:52 PM PST by Helicondelta
Cruz "insulted a lot of people," Trump said. "I've had more calls on that statement that Ted made. New York is a great place, it's got great people, it's got loving people, wonderful people. When the World Trade Center came down, I saw something that no place on Earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than New York."
"[T]wo one hundred and ten story buildings come crashing down. I saw them come down. Thousands of people killed, and the clean up started the next day and it was the most horrific cleanup in the history of doing this and in construction," Trump said.
"I was down there. And I've never seen anything like it. And the people in New York fought and fought and fought and we saw more death and even the smell of death, nobody understood it. And it was with us for months, the smell, the air. And we rebuilt downtown Manhattan and everybody in the world watched and everybody in the world loved New York and loved New Yorkers. And I have to tell you that was a really insulting statement that Ted made."
Cruz did not offer a response to Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Go Trump!
I guess you had to live here to understand. I was praying for ten days, watching the news, “just let one more be found alive”. At the end we had to accept that they had been vaporized. We all breathed in that ash and the people that ran to help were affected by it, some years later. I still get choked up by the stories, by the people, by their courage and by the loss of so many who were loved and missed and could have done so much more with their lives had they been allowed to live them. I remember our friends at that time. Israel reached right out and stepped up to stand with us while France, Germany & Canada stepped aside and cast stones.
Very ineffective tactic for a politician but its part of the standard operating procedure for the GOP to insult the base. Sad that Cruz got caught up in the contest enough to go there. Reminds me of Romney and the 40%, you want to think it fine but saying it is bound to turn off that 40% & a bunch more.
While 911 is not a reason to give New Yorkers a pass for the liberals they have elected it does go a long way toward explaining the visceral response to someone dissing our city. When you take a blow like that because, to a terrorist group, your city is symbol of America you pull together. New Yorkers are still pulling together.
How so? I think we know who took it too far. And, it wasn’t Trump.
Excellent article. Thanks.
TTTT!!
There are parts of NY that are liberal, Financial houses, ghettos, college campuses but there are plenty who are not and who despise the corruption and idiots like Bloomberg. You are forgetting it only takes 51% to win an election; that leaves room for a lot of conservatives in NYC. Conservatives who may yet manage to rise up after the garbage that DeBlasio is spouting and the chaos he creates. It would only take 4-5% shifting aka wising up. Wouldn't it be wiser to woo those folks than spit in their faces?
Might as well invoked Hitler.....
No, that’s what the CRuzies do, often. Godwin’s Law is a constant meme for several of them.
Ya think? Maybe he was playing a deeper game and pointing out the dangers of dissing people. Cruz was wrong to lump NYers and Big NE urban values; that’s a way to divide people like the divider-in-chief. We need to pull together as a country not snipe at a broad group of people a subset of whom already share our goals and concerns. Look how quickly sniping backfired on Cruz. He opened the door. When you diss a group you no longer control the dialog.
LOL, yeah, I know, Trump is playing three-dimensional chess, and Sun-Tzu, or something.
As I said in my post and you’re ignoring, Cruz made it clear he was talking about NYC. So you can go ahead and pretend all of a sudden that we need to show solidarity with a bunch of pro-abortion, pro-queer, anti-gun liberals, but I’m not buying it.
Catherine you forget yourself.
Great post.
“It does not take an Ivy League degree to understand why all these calamities are descending on us. What is happening is living proof of the famous statement by Edmond Burke, “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.†Beltway Republicans and the toothless conservative punditry, who were supposed to defend us have always gone along to get along, rationalizing the left’s objectives as only establishing benign and soft European socialism. They were whistling past the graveyard. “
Great read. Thanks for the ping NF.
I didn’t forget that Trump is a progressive sleaze.
Always has been, still is. Liberal, lying scum.
The article was first rate.
Cruz simply screwed up here. Sure, it'll play well among conservatives. But the urban areas go Democrat, rural go conservative, and the key is the suburbs. Maybe more precisely, the key is the proverbial soccer moms. If someone can articulate conservative views without being scary or unnecessarily divisive, they can win those voters.
Cruz could have made the same point any number of different ways. He could have said "the values of New York City Democrats", or "New York City elites", or any number of phrases that didn't constitute a scatter gun against an entire state.
That is bizarre. It happened to us - NYers; it happened to America, all Americans share in the sorrow. The brave passengers that crashed the plane are honored by us all, that's not a NY thing.
How are New Yorkers co opting it by remembering. It will be a part of our city forever...that it happened..that we rose above it, messily and painfully but with many individual acts of courage and dignity. What does that take away from anyone else. Did you just resent the pride & solidarity?
So your values are Obama’s values? You are American and America elected him twice.
Perhaps the point is that it was stupid to talk about a NY state of mind or NY values. Stereotyping is no way to reach out to people. Its a tactic to demonize a segment to appease or appeal to another segment. The tactic may work short term but it backfires later. Trump is playing the longer game.
I can't stand Trump, and Ted probably has my vote as of now, but this was a screw-up. Arguing against the obvious just makes one look like a fanatic. That being said, this was really Cruz's first verbal miss in the entire campaign, which is impressive as hell.
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