New York Values Kerfuffle Unmasks the Inner Donald
For the truth-starved conservative grown tired and lean
waiting for their much maligned values to find place at the table in the
presidential primary, the Republican debates have been a smorgasbord of delights.
Even the lesser lights have said things we longed to hear and the front runners
say it louder and longer as their poll numbers reflect our applause.
The debate on Jan 14th had something for every
taste bud on the Red-State spectrum. There were a couple of candidates of the
RINO variety I could have done without. We are hungering for red meat after so
much pablum and empty promises from the current administration. Hope and Change
became ‘Hope to Change Back’ to the country we once were.
The highlight of the evening was when Ted Cruz was
challenged to defend his campaign trail statement about Trump having “New York
State Values”. Cruz encountered moderator Maria Bartiromo herself a New Yorker,
who made it personal; Cruz opined that everyone knows what New York values are
but she pressed him to explain, poised like a cat about to pounce on a cornered
mouse. His humorous retort …”well, if you are a New Yorker perhaps not.”
Cruz in his usual
style articulated how in recent years New York has become a hot bed of
progressive liberalism, solidly pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, and politically
correct beyond the bounds of the majority of American comfort zones. One poll says 65% of Americans think we are
on the wrong track, though those living in Sanctuary Cities like New York and
Boston live in an altered reality unaware of their actual distance from
mainstream America blinded by the liberal media and political cartel.
Trump may have exposed his true colors under a relatively
new veneer of hyper-conservatism born of his win-win mentality in business.
Trump took the opportunity to turn the tables on Cruz and
played the 9/11 card, extolling the people of New York City for their endurance
of such a horrible catastrophe. But this was not what Cruz was referring to and
he applauded New York’s resiliency. This may have actually been a revealing
moment about Trump’s famous killer instinct; his willingness to say anything to
win, to the detriment of all…his party and his country.
Bread and Circus,
from Powerball to Superbowl distracts us from recognizing the freedoms lost,
the price our children and grandchildren will pay for our inattention, whether
by ignorance or apathy, to the criminal behavior of those in power.
In a Trump presidency when the stage make up and blonde
tint fades and the comb over hairs disappear, Trump the conservative, may be
unmasked as more committed to his own ideas than moral issues.
We know he’d be
tough on illegals and refugees from Syria. He’d build and effective wall to
keep out terrorists and stem the tide of foreigners seeking American jobs and
sending money out of the country. He’d strengthen our military and use it when
needed to regain our dignity after the humiliation suffered when our Navy was
forced to surrender to Iran before releasing billions of dollars to their
coffers.
But would Trump appoint pro-life, pro-family Supreme
Court judges? This is questionable due
to his “New York values”.
When pressed
for an apology the day after the debate Sen. Cruz replied "I
apologize to the millions of New Yorkers who've been let down by liberal
politicians.""I apologize for the working men and women of New York who are denied jobs — jobs that have been plentiful just south of Pennsylvania — because Gov. Cuomo bans fracking. I apologize to all the pro-life, pro-marriage, pro-Second Amendment New Yorkers who Gov. Cuomo brazenly told have no place in the state of New York because that’s not who New Yorkers are," Cruz said on "The Sean Hannity Show."
Speaking to a separate group of reporters, Cruz also said, “I apologize to all of the African American children who Mayor de Blasio tried to throw out of their charter schools that were providing a life line to the American dream."
"And I apologize to all the cops and firefighters and 9/11 heroes who had no choice but to stand and turn their backs on Mayor de Blasio because Mayor de Blasio over and over again stands with the looters and criminals rather than the brave men and women [in] blue.”
Give me more truth and less coverage about movie stars and drug lords, Star Wars, sports scandals, lottery mania escapism. We have some serious work to do. This could be our last call for a national turn around.
Ben Carson warned…”Don’t let secular progressives drive out our Judeo-Christian ethics.”
Our enemies, and we have them, are using our freedoms against us, circling us like a pack of hungry wolves.
Without a true Conservative in the White House enforcing our Constitution, strengthening our borders and military, gaining peace through strength, vetting immigrants and returning jobs and economic growth to American citizens…we will have failed our children and grandchildren and as Angela Jolie has warned see our daughters raped in the public squares.
Chris Noonan Funnell Feb 27, 2016
