I can't believe you would by implication compare his electability to Ted Cruz knowing as you undoubtedly do Trump's negatives.
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."
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I can't believe you would by implication compare his electability to Ted Cruz knowing as you undoubtedly do Trump's negatives.
“All liberals would make it a crime just to possess, even though it would lead to Civil War II. Go Ted!”
RIGHT you are, and I’m talking RIGHT, not moderate/liberal Republican like Donald is.
Trump doesn’t even have the energy to learn the rules so he can win an election, so I doubt he could last even a small fraction of 21 hours.
I was saying early on, before this got all ugly, that a Trump-Cruz ticket would be fine with me. 12-16 years of those two would still be OK.
Bump.
I think some around here need a reminder of this “GOPe rube”’s record.
While Ted Cruz was arguing cases before the supreme court, Trump was out greasing palms.
FIRST we need Ted Cruz to be our president as ONLY Ted can put this country back together again.
After eight years, I hope he is a justice of SCOTUS.
Trump donated tens of thousands of dollars to essentially all New York politicians because he benefits from the business-government interactions in New York. He has to get permits and approvals, and those come more quickly when he can make a phone call to someone who wants to keep him happy. The world should not be that way, but Trump did not create those rules. "Pay to play" and he paid up.
Trump used to be an active liberal, 15 years ago, but I haven't seen any of that since 2002. That's a long time. I prefer Cruz philosophically for his consistent conservatism, but Trump looks like a much better choice than Kasich, Jeb, Christie, Rubio, Hillary, or Bernie.
Agreed.
Donald has a pleasant personality though, except for when he picks on women, including insulting his opponent’s face, making fun of a military man for being captured, or making fun of a journalist with a disability, or leaving his 1st wife to marry his mistress, and leaving his 2nd wife to marry his new mistress, and I just don’t have time to opine the rest. I would be here FOREVER.
Sorry, I like you Liz, but Donald is just too mean and untrustworthy.
This is a good argument for a deal between Trump and Cruz, that would follow this outline:
1) Cruz throws his support behind the Trump nomination and election;
2) In return, Cruz becomes the Solicitor General (AG has likely been promised to Christie already - otherwise, give that to Ted);
3) Cruz gets to select ALL federal judges while he holds that position, present 2 or 3 recommendations for each position to President Trump, and Trump than rubber-stamps one of those people vetted by Cruz;
4) At some point of Cruz’ choosing, Trump nominates him to serve on the Supreme Court. Perhaps Trump and Cruz can convince (the apparently corrupt) Roberts to resign “for health reasons” or “to spend more time with his family” or some such figleaf of a reason, making Cruz the CJ for the next 35-40 years. Oh, and as a benefit, it is pretty much a given that the Senate will approve him - after all, it takes him out of direct involvement in politics, something that the jackasses like Lindsey Grahamnesty dearly want to accomplish.
Cruz’ impact on our legal system would be absolutely immense, something that no person could be ashamed of as the capstone to a lifetime of achievement.
“..- 2nd Amendment is ultimate check against government tyranny. (Jun 2015)..”
I’m picking out this one for now, because Gov. Andrew Cuomo thinks the 2nd A. is for deer hunting, when he told us that we don’t need more than seven bullets to kill a deer.
I VOTE this the best common sense post for a LONG while here...
The very purpose of the second amendment is to remove those who would try to “write it out” with extreme prejudice.
Those leftist justices have to sleep sometimes!
Ask him!
“..Ted Cruz is a consistent constitutional conservative”
That’s what I like, that Ted is CONSISTENT, and according to his professor has been that way since college.
While I’m sure they are nice people, I hear so many Trump supporters calling radio shows to say they like Trump because he is a businessesman.
Well so was Herbert Hoover, and he was NOT a great president.
Truth be told, we need both! But each is too stubborn to recognize it and deal with it.
"Inability to be part of a team" may well translate into him recognizing that compromising with bad policy is like adding a little sewage to your drinking water, and behaving accordingly.
That only happens if (1) a republican succeeds him or (2) if he appoints himself.
“Trumps spent nearly $50,000 to elect congressional Democrats, they donated only $1,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRSC)....”
As for me, if I were a wealthy businessperson, I would not give a DIME to libDem politicians, just because I have principles.
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