“There’s no reason to believe that Cruz will be anything more than another pansy establishment R if we use your logic and reverse it.”
That’s simply a nonsensical statement. I realize that the echo chamber of Trumpania repeats this over and over, but it doesn’t make it so. Cruz demonstrated by his conduct as a Senator, bucking his own party establishment over and over again in the most vocal, unequivocal fashion. Moreover, he has a history of conservative philosophy and practice going back to his teenage years. Going back to his work at the FTC and later, as Solicitor General of Texas, he was conservative. Always.
I know you can pick the anecdotal case of the FPP or his wife’s tenure at Goldman Sachs, but these are, at the very, very worst, 1) a single, isolated case in the Senate and 2) having a spouse with a job in the capitalist market place.
So, your attempt to flip the devastating logic of Trump’s record back onto Cruz utterly fails.
You are correct to a degree about whether you have confidence in the candidate’s ability to carry out an agenda, but I haven’t the slightest doubt about the key question I posed: who do you trust with a Supreme Court pick. Trump, who doesn’t know the meaning of the word “conservative”, or Ted Cruz, who could give a brilliant dissertation off the cuff?
*Yawn*
Sorry, I had this exact same screed blared at me about 20 times, but often with more profanity in it. I’m not going to argue with you; I know how it’s going to go already.
Thing is, I like Cruz. Or I want to like Cruz, but there are some things about him, especially on immigration, that are really bothering me. And to me, immigration is the only topic that matters this election, because unless we get this under control, then we lose on every single other topic.
I don’t like many of the holier-than-thou prats supporting Cruz who like to look down their noses and lecture me about what ‘real’ conservatism is while at the same time giving me the No True Scotsman argument about why my reasons for voting the way I do don’t matter to them.
As for who I trust with Supreme Court justices? I trust them both equally. Trump likes Thomas and Alito and yes, even Scalia. So do I. Cruz got burned on Roberts like all of us, but I trust that he’ll do it too.
But even more important than the SC is immigration, because if that goes, then we’re boned at the ballot box in addition to everything else.