Story highlights Dean Obeidallah says the candidate doubled down on his derisive talk about "New York values"

New York values are superior to the values Cruz touts, Obeidallah says

Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM's weekly program "The Dean Obeidallah Show," a columnist for The Daily Beast and editor of the politics blog The Dean's Report. Follow him on Twitter: @TheDeansreport. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his.

(CNN) You would have thought Ted Cruz got the message when he he trashed "New York values" back in January. The New York media took a baseball bat to Cruz's head (figuratively, that is). One of the best responses was the New York Daily News' cover story featuring the Statute of Liberty giving Cruz the middle finger with headline, "Drop dead, Ted."

But there was Cruz again on Thursday slamming New York values. This time the Texas senator told CNN's Dana Bash that New York values are "the liberal values of Democratic politicians who have been hammering the people of New York for decades."

And he added, everyone "outside of New York knows exactly what I meant by" New York values.

The Daily News responded to Cruz's latest round with another great cover telling Cruz to take the "F.U. train." Although the News actually went too easy, they should've spelled out what "F. U." stood for.

So why would Cruz, who is trailing Donald Trump badly in advance of Tuesday's New York GOP primary, come after New York values again? Simple, he thinks it plays well with conservatives he's trying to woo outside of the city, in either upstate New York or in other states, who view the Big Apple as a present day Sodom and Gomorrah. Cruz is simply using New York City as a prop for mockery to the delight of far-right conservatives.

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