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Originally Posted by cuervo72
How were Cruz's statements about "New York values" markedly different from this?
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That's a good question, but it's apples and oranges. One is a mindset that's popular in left-leaning media and the other is a politician desperate to gain votes and probably (hopefully) sabotaging his own campaign in the process.
I am profoundly disappointed in the quality of the candidates for the presidency. We have only ourselves to blame. We respond to negative ad campaigns and we ignore positive stories. We place everyone under this withering "gotcha" microscope, and only the viruses that thrive on poison survive.
I thought for a while that maybe Rubio could rise above this, but I like him less and less the more that I see he's just a different tilt at the same anti-windmill. Plus, there are some really disturbing key mistakes he has made in his support of particular foreign policies (like Libya).
I think I'm more-or-less behind Christie at this point. My hopes being that the side of him we saw with the bridge issue could be blamed on staffers. The appeal being his landslide victories in a heavily blue state. But I worry that he can't empathize with voters and I worry that he will do what so many others have done in recent years upon victory - "I won - deal with it." His command of the issues is good. I agree with him less than I do with several others, but I think I need to let go of the idea that I need to agree with someone 90% of the time to feel he or she should win. What we lost when Jon Huntsman's campaign was a non-starter four years ago seems enormous. What we will lose if Trump (probably Cruz as well) wins the nomination seems even greater.