Posted on 04/14/2016 5:33:24 AM PDT by Sun
"Sen. Ted Cruz has warned that we are only one justice away from having the Second Amendment guaranteeing our right to keep and bear arms written out of the Constitution. (snip)
What few people know -- and the media won’t remind them -- is that Ted Cruz was a prime mover in getting Heller, in which Scalia wrote the majority opinion, before the Court and decided in favor of gun rights, ruling that the right to keep and bear arms was an individual right and that the word “militia”, as the Founders intended, meant the “whole people” of the United States. If Heller had gone the other way, our gun rights would have been thrown on the ash heap of history. In January Cruz told CNN: "I represented 31 states in the Heller case, which upheld the individual right to keep and bear arms. ....(snip)
Hillary Clinton, for example, has said she will put Supreme Court justices on the court who will overturn Heller. And if Heller is overturned… there were four justices who said that there is no individual right to keep and bear arms whatsoever, that it is only a collective right in the militia, which is fancy lawyer talk for a nonexistent right… [If] Hillary Clinton gets one more Supreme Court justice, what it would mean is, the Supreme Court would say you and I and every individual American have no constitutional right under the Second Amendment at all, and either the federal government or a state government could make it a crime to possess a firearm."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo took a huge chunk out of the Second Amendment with his so-called Safe Act, so NYers know what it's like to have the wrong person in office. But if we get another anti-Constitutional justice, we could literally lose the Second Amendment.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Donald_Trump.htm
Trump was wrong on guns 15 years ago, but he has been pro-gun for five years. That is good enough for me.
- Mass shootings are due to a huge mental health problem. (Jan 2016)
- No limits on guns; they save lives. (Jan 2016)
- Keep enemies of the state away from guns. (Nov 2015)
- Gun-free zones are target practice for sickos. (Oct 2015)
- Gun ownership makes US safer, not more dangerous. (Oct 2015)
- Mental health more important than gun control. (Oct 2015)
- Laws are ineffective in preventing gun violence. (Oct 2015)
- Gun violence is inevitable; regulations won’t help. (Oct 2015)
- Protect the Second Amendment, but address mental health. (Sep 2015)
- Take guns from good people & bad people have target practice. (Jul 2015)
- A very strong person on the Second Amendment. (Jun 2015)
- I am against gun control. (Feb 2011)
- Dems and Reps are both wrong on guns. (Jul 2000)
- For assault weapon ban, waiting period, & background check. (Jul 2000)
Full quotes here: http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Donald_Trump_Gun_Control.htm
All liberals would make it a crime just to possess, even though it would lead to Civil War II. Go Ted!
Give it up. Don’t you know Cruz is the lowest form of scum to ever to be born? /s
Just a thought. Would trump ever stand up before the world for twenty four hours and denounce the cronyism of the federal government?
Whine much?
CanaCuban Ashley Goldman Cruz even be trusted?
Why did he help ObamaTRADE and then lie like a rat?
Why does he ask hookers to dress like rats?
Why did he ally, against the People, with Willard, the rat?
Why does he lie with false accusations, like a rat?
Why did he have his troops steal votes from the People,
like rats?
Why have his troops lied, sandbagging even Dr. Carson,
like rats?
Practically never.
How about you?
As I’ve said, Ted Cruz would make an excellent SCOTUS pick. But not a good POTUS pick.
Give me a break.
(posted by Freeper Beautiful Gracious Skies)
“A prominent aide to George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign could barely contain himself when we asked him to discuss Cruz, who worked in the Bush campaign’s policy shop.
This person described Cruz as hyper-arrogant and widely despised, and he emphasized—over and over—that the pervasive dislike of Cruz within the Bush ranks had nothing to do with ideology.
(Cruz, he noted, never objected to Bush’s call for compassionate conservatism, immigration reform, and national education standards, and no one on the campaign regarded him as an ideologue.)
The problem was simple: Cruz’s personality.
“Ted thought he was an expert on everything,” says this campaign veteran, who asked not to be named. “He was a smart and talented guy, but completely taken with himself and his own ideas. He would offer up opinions on everything, even matters outside his portfolio. He was a policy guy, but he would push his ideas on campaign strategy. He would send memos on everything to everyone. He would come to meetings where he wasn’t invited—and wasn’t wanted.”
In fact, this Bush alum recalls, “the quickest way for a meeting to end would be for Ted to come in. People would want out of that meeting. People wouldn’t go to a meeting if they knew he would be there. It was his inability to be part of the team. That’s exactly what he was: a big a$$hole.”
“I don’t know anyone who had a decent relationship with Cruz.” And when Bush became president, his top campaign aides agreed Cruz should not be offered a job in the White House.
“No one wanted to work with him,” this source remembers. “George W. Bush couldn’t stand the guy.”
This person adds, “It’s a real quandary for Bush campaign people: Trump versus Cruz, who to vote for? And it would be a big quandary even if it’s Cruz versus Hillary Clinton. That’s how much they cannot stand him.”
by Tim Murphy & David Korn -MJ
http://www.ontheissues.org/Ted_Cruz.htm
Ted Cruz has been an articulate pro-gun leader his entire adult life. That is as good as it gets.
- Lack of individual right to guns leads to confiscation. (Jan 2016)
- Obama is coming for our guns. (Oct 2015)
- 2nd Amendment is ultimate check against government tyranny. (Jun 2015)
- Opposes unreasonable and burdensome gun restrictions. (Jul 2011)
- Voted NO on banning high-capacity magazines of over 10 bullets. (Apr 2013)
- Opposes restricting the Second Amendment. (Oct 2012)
- Oppose the United Nations’ Arms Trade Treaty. (Sep 2013)
Full quotes here: http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Ted_Cruz_Gun_Control.htm
[There is a lot more Cruz material on guns out there, from the decades before he was Candidate Cruz, but I’m sticking to the same sources as my Trump post.]
Instead of a constitutional conservative who has appeared many times before the Supreme Court and advanced the Second Amendment against a whole array of forces, we will be told that we need a businessman, a winner, somebody who gets things done, I guy knows how to make a deal. We will not be told that Donald Trump has been all over the gun issue just as we are never told he has been all over the abortion issue, the NATO issue, the tax issue, and virtually every other issue which is dear to conservatives.
We will not be told that Donald Trump was financially supporting all the forces arrayed against the Second Amendment while Ted Cruz was in the trenches winning your rights to bear arms.
I forgot to add one more adjective: consistent. Ted Cruz is a consistent constitutional conservative
Personal attacks are both unnecessary and unhelpful. Does anyone benefit other than Hillary, Bernie, Jeb, Rubio, Kasich, and others who consistently support Amnesty, who consistently support Obamacare, and who consistently support restrictions on our individual, God-given right to keep and bear arms?
Decent Americans are better off with a real truce, and not just a “I’ll stop when every person who even pretends to support the other side stops” gesture toward a truce that will never happen.
The nonsense is not helping us to elect the best possible conservative in November. I want 99% or more of Cruz supporters to vote Trump, when he is nominated, even if they hold their noses. In the event that Cruz wins the nomination, I want 99% or more of Trump supporters to vote Cruz, even if they hold their noses. Offending the other side does not encourage them to vote Trump (or Cruz) in November.
I cannot help wondering how many of those who stir up the Trump-Cruz wars are actually paid trolls taking Jeb/Hillary/Soros money to cause trouble - not all of them but probably enough to set the toxic tone.
I stand by my recurring statement:
Cruz and Trump are both imperfect but they agree far more than 80% of the time (see my tagline from Ronald Reagan). They should be friends and allies, and we should treat both of them as such.
No but he would stand up for 24 hours and complain about not getting delegates he didn’t campaign for.
Also heard he is still standing, and won’t sit down, until SOMEONE answers the question
HOWS JOE PATERNO DOING?
” Ted Cruz is a consistent constitutional conservative.”
He’s also consistently an unlikable, unelectable jerk. President Trump should nominate him for SCOTUS.
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Donald Trump donated tens of thousands of dollars to anti-2ndA politicians like Schumer, Spitzer, Pelosi, Cuomo, and more. I’m talking about ANDREW Cuomo the very liberal governor who gave New Yorkers the so-called “Safe Act.”
Donald changed his mind on voluminous issues, which is why I don’t trust him. I can accept changing on a few issues, but it’s as if he’s another person now.
Sorry, I don’t buy it.
All your facts are correct, as usual. Cruz is not the slime in the unsubstantiated and out of context attacks and innuendo that are being spread by trolls. He is, based on overwhelming evidence, the "consistent constitutional conservative" you describe, and one of the most consistent, articulate, and energetic defenders of the Constitution in politics today.
Trump was a leading financial supporter fifteen years ago of anti-gun legislative efforts and of many other liberal positions. The sincerity of his conversion and the absence of evidence for an ideological understanding of why his new positions are correct are my biggest concerns with Trump. I also have concerns with Cruz (which have nothing to do with his integrity or conservatism, just with the risk that stopping Trump will lead to the establishment nominating someone who supports Amnesty, supports Obamacare, and supports restrictions on our Second Amendment rights - like Kasich).
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