Discussion: Cruz Uses 'New York Values' Line After Giving Victory Speech

system1 · February 2, 2016, 3:12pm

Discussion for article #245434

dainla · February 2, 2016, 3:44pm

Nope

sjk · February 2, 2016, 3:44pm

“I can’t tell you how many New Yorkers tell me, 'I’m a New Yorker and I’m with you”…Because its ZERO you pompous LYING fraud.

deckbose · February 2, 2016, 3:48pm

I’m glad Cruz acknowledges that his win was based on demeaning his opponents rather than any positive proposals for the country. That’s all this cipher has – “attack mode” and nothing else.

sathington_willoughby · February 2, 2016, 3:50pm

Gee that’s odd because he sure likes our money. Am I wrong or what because the last time I checked the food on his table was payed for either by the American people or Goldman Sachs.

This guy’s lack of political skills are going to catch up to him one day and he’s not even going to know what happened.

Lacuna-Synecdoche · February 2, 2016, 3:56pm

TPM:

“I can’t tell you how many New Yorkers tell me, ‘I’m a New Yorker and I’m with you. I know exactly what New York values are and I can’t stand them,’” Cruz said. “It’s the values of the elite liberals that have done enormous damage to New York and they’re a bunch of cops and firemen and hardworking men and women in the great state of New York who are fed up with the out-of-touch values of Manhattan.”

This is a man who needs to be humiliated repeatedly and ceaselessly, for the good of the country. I hope he rots in hell for eternity.

boisdevache · February 2, 2016, 3:57pm

A true uniter, that one. His desire to bring the country together spews out his mouth.

steviedee111 · February 2, 2016, 3:57pm

“This is a center-right country.”

Translation: 8 years of a nigger sitting in the White House was an aberration and a mistake. Let's put all of them and a few others back in their place.

khaaannn · February 2, 2016, 4:06pm

In the prescient words of President Obama: “Please continue Senator.”
Cruz has proved popular among Provincial Evangelical Shit-Kickers in a tiny CAUCUS State.
Trump came a close 2nd.
Rubio a close 3rd.
Big woop.
Remember who won Iowa in 2008: Huckabee, 2012: Rick Santorum.
'Nuff said.

ralph_vonholst · February 2, 2016, 4:07pm

Ya know, at this point, having to listen to the Caligula of Calgary, I’m finding myself wishing that Trump had won.

mrcomments · February 2, 2016, 4:08pm

NY values attacks will not go over well in states like Florida dopey. Lots of NYers retire there or have homes there. Same with many other states.

And that’s not why you won Iowa. Trump not being in the debate cost him, that was real dumb.

But I have been saying for a while that I am really not sure Trump wants to be President. What he has done is up his marketing value for licensing agreements (and he has many) and TV gigs. And even if he wants to be President, he is not going to win the nomination, and in the remote chance he does…he stands no chance in the general.

cpl593h · February 2, 2016, 4:12pm

And they call Obama a “divider”?

This asshole wants to declare a values war on every person that votes Democratic. We need to give him just what he’s looking for, all guns blazing.

riverstreet · February 2, 2016, 4:13pm

Annie Hall - 1977

Don’t you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we’re left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here.

Alvy Singer - played by Woody Allen

pickwick · February 2, 2016, 4:16pm

"I can’t tell you how many New Yorkers tell me, 'I’m a New Yorker and I’m with you.” I grantee he just made that shit up.

rudesan · February 2, 2016, 4:18pm

So THAT’S what “a good guy with a gun” means.

jalus · February 2, 2016, 4:20pm

*"… I know exactly what New York values are and I can’t stand them,'" Cruz said.

(whispers ) Does Cruz know he has to win primaries in Ohio. Illinois, Florida, NEW YORK, New Jersey and Pennsylvania … and that little quip may lose him the nomination?!

bluestatedon · February 2, 2016, 4:20pm

“who are fed up with the out-of-touch values of Manhattan.”

Says the guy whose wife works for Goldman Sachs. Which is headquartered in Manhattan.

mrcomments · February 2, 2016, 4:26pm

Actually read his statement again:

That could mean zero or one. He is just saying he can’t tell us.

He also can’t tell us how many NYer’s told him “Go f**k yourself”.

littlegirlblue · February 2, 2016, 4:38pm

@MrComments @Jalus

Take it from an ex-New Yorker who brought those values with her when she left for California. They’re embedded into your DNA for the rest of your life. But hey, what’s 29 electoral votes when he can have 6 from Ioway.

edhedh · February 2, 2016, 5:52pm

dainla::Nope

geez. i thought it had more to do with pandering and serious ass kissing of crazy white fiudamentalist “christians”. what do i know?