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Krauthammer: Cruz 'speechless, dumbstruck' following 'New York values' row with Trump
Fox News ^ | 1/15/2016

Posted on 01/16/2016 4:02:08 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Charles Krauthammer told viewers Friday on "Special Report with Bret Baier" that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz "was speechless, gobsmacked... dumbstruck" at the end of Thursday's Fox Business Network GOP primary debate.

The Texas senator criticized fellow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for embodying what he called "New York values."

Krauthammer, a syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor, said that while Cruz was "dazzling" on the birther issue, he got "thoroughly crushed on the New York thing."

Krauthammer seemed surprised by the way Cruz handled Trump's attacks, calling the exchange "uncharacteristic of Cruz because he is always prepared."

"Trump had played the 9/11 card the day before," Krauthammer said, "[Cruz] should have known it was coming."

"And if you saw the split screen at the end of hat exchange, Cruz was speechless," Krauthammer said.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Exactly!


21 posted on 01/16/2016 4:24:53 PM PST by Rona Badger (Heeds the calling wind.)
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To: traderrob6

He’s palying (Playing) you folks and if he does succeed in getting elected, your gonna learn that.....the hard way.

I’m with the Canadian!!


22 posted on 01/16/2016 4:25:58 PM PST by tallyhoe
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To: tallyhoe

“I’m with the Canadian”

I’m with the liberal.
There fixed it for ya.


23 posted on 01/16/2016 4:28:29 PM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: justlittleoleme

Cruz, being the Jedi debate master that he is, should have known that and qualified it as such. That was either intentional or a forced error....I think the latter as Cruz would have nothing to gain by that.


24 posted on 01/16/2016 4:29:03 PM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: Jarhead9297

I’m with the liberal.

Your with Bernie? Hillary? Bush? What liberal Trump?


25 posted on 01/16/2016 4:31:41 PM PST by tallyhoe
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To: libbylu

“Teddy was respectful. Something trumpeeee has no clue about.”

You seem to need to work on that “respect” thing a little yourself. Particularly when it comes to the guy who’s our leading candidate.


26 posted on 01/16/2016 4:33:49 PM PST by Pravious
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To: libbylu

“Teddy was respectful. Something trumpeeee has no clue about.”

You seem to need to work on that “respect” thing a little yourself. Particularly when it comes to the guy who’s our leading candidate.


27 posted on 01/16/2016 4:33:49 PM PST by Pravious
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To: tallyhoe

Trump is and always has been a liberal regardless what letter he wishes to attach to the end of his name.


28 posted on 01/16/2016 4:34:12 PM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: tallyhoe

LOL!


29 posted on 01/16/2016 4:36:29 PM PST by txhurl
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To: tallyhoe

Wayne Gretzky?

He’d be ten times better than the Mouth.


30 posted on 01/16/2016 4:38:26 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Kraut has New York values.
How else do you explain his defending the very man he has been attacking relentlessly for months on end.
Also, see my tagline.


31 posted on 01/16/2016 4:41:10 PM PST by rhinohunter (The Uniparty FEARS Trump -- but it HATES Cruz)
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To: tallyhoe
Cynthia Trautz Hey MORON...he has 102 charities and foundations. Idiots. He gave $500,000 in cash; donated to the American Red Cross, NYC league and others. If you aspire to be SNOPES, perhaps you can try FACTS instead of National Enquirer tactics.

Like · Reply · 6 · Nov 5, 2015 8:46pm Kate Carlson Once a story you've written has been proven to be completely false - how long do you wait before removing it? #Trump2016

Like · Reply · Nov 6, 2015 9:53am · Edited Linda Lexus Stewart · Works at Stay-at-home parent He did make personal donations of $500,000 and this article has been proven false. I love Donald Trump!

Like · Reply · 1 · Nov 6, 2015 11:21pm Sharon Brunson · Owings, Maryland this is an outright lie....stop spreading rumors about Trump which is not true!!!!!!! Do your research people and quit relying on articles like this...Smoking Gun you need to take this post off and retrack your article....garbage!!!

32 posted on 01/16/2016 4:43:15 PM PST by Aria (Abortion = murder, the taking of a human life.)
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To: tallyhoe
"I'm with the Canadian!!"

I seem to recall that the Canadians were very quick to come to the aid of NYC on 9/11.
33 posted on 01/16/2016 4:44:13 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Pravious

The Mouth of Manhattan is no more “my” candidate then Krauthiemmer or George Will are Conservative.

The Mouth needs to run as a Democrat.
He’s admitted that’s his values.


34 posted on 01/16/2016 4:44:36 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: libbylu

Again, we hear from DU!


35 posted on 01/16/2016 4:49:39 PM PST by Redleg Duke (The Federal Government is nothing but a welfare program with a dress code!)
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To: tallyhoe
Trump Family Values


36 posted on 01/16/2016 4:49:45 PM PST by TADSLOS (Trump has sizzle, but Cruz is the real deal. - Jim Robinson 01/11/16)
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To: Jarhead9297

Not me. Krauthammer’s name has been mud with me ever since the day Palin mentioned death panels, and the offended-by-her-lack-of-decorum Kraut said “she should leave the room”... and then repeated every point she made in her Facebook message as his own! I won’t even go into his snippy, condescending attitude towards the 2010 town-hall protests, which he found appalling, and said they’d lead to GOP defeat in the mid-terms.


37 posted on 01/16/2016 5:02:49 PM PST by greene66
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
What seems odd to me is that is no surprise that New York (to many of us not there) reeks of high taxes, gun control, abortion on demand, totalitarian enactments, etc. That's the view from the cheap seats, and the Governor of the State and Mayor of the City both bray about it. Bloomberg spread the love by pushing gun control efforts far and wide, well beyond NY State or City.

So for many of us (even though we know there are people in the State, and even the City who are not represented by that rampant Liberalism, "New York Values" represent the mindset on display by the politicians from New York (including Coumo, Schumer, Clinton, Wiener, and McCarthy, to name a few).

We don't think of Rudy, and if we do, we don't find his solutions appropriate for out here in the 'sticks', either.

Now, with all that in mind, and it is something a POTUS candidate should be aware of, I find it odd that Trump takes such great offense (as do Trump supporters) when someone points out that image. That is the image the elected officials of both New York City and the State of New York project, and they work hard at it.

FWIW, California has the same problem, as do other states (CO, OR, WA, come to mind immediately).

38 posted on 01/16/2016 5:10:04 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

“Good grief, GET OVER the words “NY values” etc. This is the most important campaign and we haggle over this BS?”

Thank you! A point I made on another thread just moments ago, all about some dufus “loan”. My God!


39 posted on 01/16/2016 5:12:41 PM PST by IAMNO1 (Enough with the divisions. Lets get somebody in there who'll fix this mess.)
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To: justlittleoleme

Most people knew what Cruz meant. But the NY media hate Cruz even more than Trump. The problem was that Cruz let Trump get away with it during the debate. Cruz’s response the next day was too late.

F Krauthammer...except I do like his name. If I had a band I would call it “Kraut Hammer”


40 posted on 01/16/2016 5:27:18 PM PST by patq
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