Cruz' important point here is that the Bushes picked justices who had no paper trail so that Democrats couldn't pick things out of their history and "Bork" them. Republicans took the easy way out instead of fighting for a proven conservative nominee. They put political expediency over promotion of conservative policy. And what makes Cruz different is that he will FIGHT for conservative values because that's the only reason he's in this job to begin with.
Cruz heartily endorsed Roberts. Check the National Review article he wrote when Roberts was nominated.
Cruz is my choice as a principled conservative.
All the Cruzers asking for a list of lies Cruz tells can add this to the list. What a detestable man Cruz is.
“Ted Cruz endorsed Mike Luttig and Edith Jones for the Supreme Court.”
Ted Cruz was in high school when Souter was appointed.
What a complete hypocrite.
In the words of Ted Cruz:
As an individual, John Roberts is undoubtedly a principled conservative, as is the president who appointed him. He clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist, worked in the Reagan White House, and served as the principal deputy solicitor general in President George H.W. Bush’s Justice Department.
But, as a jurist, Judge Roberts’s approach will be that of his entire career: carefully, faithfully applying the Constitution and legal precedent.
He is a mainstream judge, respected across the ideological spectrum. Thus, he’s earned praise from liberal icons such as Harvard Law Professor Larry Tribe, and Chicago Law Professor Cass Sunstein, as well as from Clinton Solicitors General Walter Dellinger and Seth Waxman, and Carter and Clinton Counsel Lloyd Cutler, the latter two of whom both described Roberts as a man of “unquestioned integrity and fair-mindedness.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/214989/right-stuff-ted-cruz
Those in opposing campaigns try to twist history into meaning Cruz pushed for Robers. They fact that he preferred Luttig did not mean he would not support Roberts once Bush nominated him. There was no evidence that he would do what he has done. Lesson: no paper trail can bite both ways. Spend the capital. Fight!!!!!
The left has been deplorable in their tactics, what with Bork and Thomas. The right needs to fight without stooping to that level, but doing everything in their power to get conservatives on the court.
What a pantload. “Bush’s fault!” Grow up, Rafael.
Typical LAZY BASTARD BUSH “Way”! Take the path of LEAST Resistance.