Posted on 01/16/2016 10:09:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
GOP presidential candidate Sen.Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) won a "prominent New York City straw poll" after commenting on "New York values."
On Saturday the Resurgent posted on Twitter: "Ted Cruz Wins Prominent New York City Straw Poll AFTER Insulting 'New York Values.'"
According to the Resurgent, The Metropolitan Republican Club in New York City held its straw poll after Cruz's statements criticizing "New York Values," and Cruz won first place.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump said Cruz insulted New Yorkers when he criticized New York Values during the GOP debate on Thursday night in South Carolina....
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Can’t be. Cruz’s comment has handed the nomination to Trump. I have read it here endlessly as of late.
The Resurgent source article already posted by Isara.
Good for New York Republicans. They actually listened to Cruz in the debate enumerate New York values that are not Republican conservative values and they agree he is the one they prefer for President.
New York Republicans know far too well the values of those who rule them.
Conservative New Yorkers understand what New York values are....
Electing morons like Andrew Cuomo, who tell you that as a conservative that is either pro-choice or pro-guns, that you “don’t belong” in this state.
Electing idiots like Bill de Blasio, who supported the Sandinistas and honeymooned in communist Cuba. He wants to tax you, grab your guns and choose what you can eat.
Enduring the doctrine of political correctness, where you have to pretend to be pro-gay marriage, pro-choice, or be ridiculed by your colleagues.
A state that elects carpetbagging morons like Hillary Clinton solely because she was the impeached, alleged rapist President’s wife.
A state that somehow sends that idiot Chuck Schumer back to the Senate over and over and over again.
The most dangerous place in New York? Anywhere between a camera and Chuck Schumer.
However, despite the rhetoric, Trump does not espouse the same values as losers like Andrew Cuomo, Hillary Clinton, Bill deBlasio and Chuck Schumer.
Likewise, Cruz is eligible to be POTUS.
As a Freeper, I’d be happy with either of the two over any of the remaining GOP-e amnesty-loving RINOs or the crook or the commie on the other side of the aisle.
Possibly because only liberals and RINOs took offense?
Cruz made sure his cultists were there to vote. Well see what happens when reality hits Cruz and his fans and the voting really starts. He can win millions of straw votes. Big deal. I don’t think your candidate from 2012, Romney won a single straw vote at all. So there you go, you decide to support Romney and follow up with Cruz........Yieks.
DT got booed at the debate and today. Said he wrapped up his speech shortly after being booed.
It is a marvelous contrast DT unhinged, calm Cruz.
As a NYer, we know the truth. And we don’t like being told otherwise. It was a given Cruz would win this. Only NY libs would disagree!
Quick, you should make a thread about it!
lol!
He’s Just too marvelous, too marvelous for words.
OK, guys no more kibitzing. You two must get ready for your very big event. Roll up your sleeves, learn to work together, less bickering, and on with the show. Remember the ‘really big show’? You two are about to take this country to the big top. Make AMERICA GREAT for all GREAT AMERICANS out here on the fruited plains. WTP long to see you in action. We stand behind you, beside you and are ready to follow. We need a leader, a happy warrior; and if you can not work together shall we find the need to whip you into submission to be our Happy Warrior? WE ARE READY to roll. Let’s get this thing done.
"The Met Club has enjoyed a long tradition of winning elections and is the only Republican club in Manhattanthat owns its own clubhouse. We are a varied and enthusiastic group with the common goal of supporting New York City Republican candidates and ideals.
But, but, but Cruz told us there are no conservatives in Manhattan.
Anyone who shares our basic goals and beliefs is welcome to become a member of the Metropolitan Republican Club. Located on Manhattan's Upper East Side, our clubhouse was built in 1930 and has been a meeting place and campaign headquarters for virtually every Manhattan Republican elected to office since that time.
Is Cruz selling out the voters in Iowa and New Hampshire by embracing New York Values? I thought New York values were evil (accept for Goldman Sachs values of course). It's hard to kept up with the very flexible on the issues Ted Cruz.
If you watched the debate, you saw that Cruz was the one the audience was shouting down while he was weakly attempting to defend himself against Rubio’s attack.
Very year Ron Paul ran he also won all the straw polls. But I am shocked to see Cruz embracing New York values. That is quite a turn around from just the other day. However I’ve seen Cruz turn a 180 in a New York second if he thinks it will help him get elected.
In United States v. Rhodes (1866), Mr. Justice Swayne, sitting in the Circuit Court, said:
All persons born in the allegiance of the King are natural-born subjects, and all persons born in the allegiance of the United States are natural-born citizens. Birth and allegiance go together. Such is the rule of the common law, and it is the common law of this country, as well as of England. . . . We find no warrant for the opinion [p663] that this great principle of the common law has ever been changed in the United States. It has always obtained here with the same vigor, and subject only to the same exceptions, since as before the Revolution.
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, speaking by Mr. Justice (afterwards Chief Justice) Sewall, early held that the determination of the question whether a man was a citizen or an alien was "to be governed altogether by the principles of the common law," and that it was established, with few exceptions, that a man born within the jurisdiction of the common law is a citizen of the country wherein he is born. By this circumstance of his birth, he is subjected to the duty of allegiance which is claimed and enforced by the sovereign of his native land, and becomes reciprocally entitled to the protection of that sovereign, and to the other rights and advantages which are included in the term "citizenship."
Chancellor Kent, in his Commentaries, speaking of the "general division of the inhabitants of every country under the comprehensive title of aliens and natives," says:
Natives are all persons born within the jurisdiction and allegiance of the United States. This is the rule of the common law, without any regard or reference to the political condition or allegiance of their parents, with the exception of the children of ambassadors, who are in theory born within the allegiance of the foreign power they represent. . . . To create allegiance by birth, the party must be born not only within the territory, but within the allegiance of the government
The notion that there is any common law principle to naturalize the children born in foreign countries, of native-born American father and mother, father or mother, must be discarded. There is not, and never was, any such common law principle.
So it was Ted 33, Trump 32. BFD!! A whopping one point win. Trump leads the state by a mile.
Cruz 33%
Trump 32%
Rubio 20%
Notice they carefully do not give the other percentages, or the size of the room, which is not very big.
Plus NYC Republicans are subject to a constant propagandizing by the RINO establishment here, who are a reflection of the RINOs in the rest of the country.
I also posted on another thread that the “continuing booing” was short and weak and was a kneejerk reaction to Trump merely saying the word “Cruz.” So what does that even mean?
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