Cats Pajamas wrote: Cruz may be angling for Scalia’s seat on the bench as payoff for his falling on the sword.
It's difficult to accept that Cruz is one of the gullible tools in the GOPe/RNC shed...but circumstances as they are, reveal an utterly disappointing candidacy given his allegiance to those who have openly declared dislike (to be kind) to him.
Should the elite political UNIPARTY succeed in undermining and dispensing with the popular primary vote - they will not necessarily have the power to provide Cruz such an important role.
Consider this well documented history of Cruz's senate colleagues utter hate for him
Then, either in desperation ...or...once convinced the above well-crafted and massaged narrative sufficiently absorbed by potential voters,
As for the DNC/Progressive opposition 'opinion of Cruz'...no love lost or gained in that camp:
To think that the UNIPARTY which UNIVERSALLY declared their disdain for Cruz would offer a seat on the Supreme Court to Cruz whose been repeatedly characterized as hated universally...poppycock!
On the other hand, to consider another (albeit unlikely) possiblity that Cruz's persistence for Constitutional fortitude was a charade all along, and he is in on the RNC/GOPe deception from the beginning is just so far beyond disgusting - there just aren't any words.
I personally don't trust Cruz at this point, but continue to hold out hope that he will recognize he is being toyed with by the establishment. If it's a position on the Supreme Court that he wants, he won't get it with his new 'friends'...but he just might be able to come to some arrangement within a Trump administration. Such an arrangement, if arrived at within the extremely limited window of opportunity that currently exists - when combining Trump & Cruz delegates could total 1237 - the magic number of delegates needed - together they could shut out the establishment's ever elastic delegate distribution rule shenanigans...and solidifying the value of each citizen vote as this nation's Founding Fathers intended.
I no longer operate under any delusion with regard to POLTICIANS. I just assume they all are lying to me at the beginning, middle and end. With as much money and power as there is involved, the players won’t willingly give up their seat at the tilted Casino table.
Revolution is next logical step. Always has been, always will be. To be technical, revolution=community organizing. This is what we will have to become. We can’t trust the republic any longer when it is run by the Clinton Foundation and Rove & Company.