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‘New York Values' (Hit piece on Cruz)
nat review ^ | 1/17/16 | Kevin D. Williamson

Posted on 01/17/2016 5:22:20 AM PST by doldrumsforgop

What to make of Senator Ted Cruz? He is a very, very smart man who apparently believes that the median Republican presidential primary voter is very, very dumb. There’s some evidence for that proposition — Donald Trump still leads in the national polls — but Cruz’s strategy rests on the proposition that these voters will enjoy being condescended to. He may very well have chosen the most effective strategy. Senator Cruz is very much hardwired into the current us-and-them mood of the electorate, Right and Left, and though he is a creature of Princeton and Harvard Law whose household long has been sustained by a Goldman Sachs paycheck, Cruz is keenly interested in giving the impression that there exists a vast cultural chasm between himself, the champion of what some populists like to call “the Real America” — as though Ronald Reagan of Hollywood, J. P. Morgan of Wall Street, and Bill Gates of Harvard weren’t real Americans — and the wicked Washington-based elite. Cruz is an outsider to the extent that a member of an Ivy League eating club (have someone explain it to you) who went on to be a member of the nation’s most prestigious lunch club, the Senate, can be an outsider. He is a Texan, albeit a Texan from the anodyne suburbs of Houston, which could be the suburbs of anywhere. He didn’t grow up baling hay in Muleshoe.

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To: doldrumsforgop

Didn’t Alphonse Capone emigrate from NYC before arriving in Chicago on Johnny Torrio’s doorstep to screw up that burgh as well?


61 posted on 01/17/2016 8:55:09 AM PST by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Resident FReeper Kitty Poem /Haiku Guy)
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To: doldrumsforgop

My idea of New York values: a big mouth, an entitled sense that New York is the best place in the world, celebrity-worship, attachment to nauseating Broadway musicals, and pro-Democrat politics.


62 posted on 01/17/2016 9:02:52 AM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: MayflowerMadam

Well yeah, and really, trashing a state or region doesn’t seem to be a smart way to win the primaries anywise.

If Cruz’s strategy is to win on the South and the Midwest...that’s a bad strategy.


63 posted on 01/17/2016 10:33:05 AM PST by Yashcheritsiy (What good is a constitution if you don't have a country to go with it?)
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To: doldrumsforgop

This comment is going to haunt Cruz for the rest of his career.

We need a uniter not a divider, and Cruz played ID politics. Those are politics of division which are liberal politics.


64 posted on 01/17/2016 10:45:08 AM PST by SteveSCH
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To: Steve_Seattle

New York values are also hard work, tenacity, toughness, and ambition.

There’s a reason New York is the economic capital of the world, the city has that attitude, and America needs that attitude(without the COMMIE CRAP)

George W Bush got it, and he embraced the city as his own after 9/11.

Cruz had the chance to offer a positive conservative message to New York and instead he gave a smarmy sarcastic non-answer.

Maybe it played well in Iowa, but he’s dead in the general, and can kiss Florida goodbye,


65 posted on 01/17/2016 10:49:02 AM PST by SteveSCH
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To: Enlightened1

“For the record Trump will win New York in the primaries and regular election.

Cruz just tossed NY 100% for the Democrats.

Do you understand that you are refuting your first sentence with your second sentence?

I did not even read your post any further, as it made no sense at that point, UNLESS you mean Trump will leave the GOP and run and win as a Democrat.

Is that what you are saying?


66 posted on 01/17/2016 11:43:35 AM PST by doldrumsforgop
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To: mad_as_he$$

“It remains to be seen if he attracted more voters than he allegedly alienated.”

His target audience are the voters in the South who are leaning Trump but may pause when they think of the lack of social conservatism, i.e. - NY values - that exist in the man.

These people are even stronger of social conservatism than they are on fiscal conservatism, and Ted knows the GOP in not fighting enough against abortion, gay marriage and the like are not conservative for them, particularly when considering who to put of the SC next.


67 posted on 01/17/2016 11:48:43 AM PST by doldrumsforgop
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To: SteveSCH

“We need a uniter not a divider, and Cruz played ID politics.”

Uniter sounds to me like the “we gotta get along” that has cursed the GOP for many years and caused the death spiral that spewed Obama.

It is a bunch of crap. You think Trump is a uniter? We need to have people who are throwbacks on right vs wrong, and call it that way. I am tired of the PC that has shrunk our morality. I want a fighter like Norman Schwarzkopf, the perfect person who should have run against Clinton in 1996.


68 posted on 01/17/2016 11:54:36 AM PST by doldrumsforgop
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