Posted on 12/28/2015 5:49:32 PM PST by Isara
Almost everyone has seen the iconic 1977 movie Star Wars. And most people remember the scene where Princess Leia records a message to Obi-Wan Kenobi. She tells him, "Help me Obi-Wan. You are my only hope."
Today conservatives are in the position of saying, "Help us Ted Cruz. You are our only hope."
There is one compelling reason why Ted Cruz is the only hope for conservatives in this election.
What is it?
At this point, there are only three candidates who have any shot at the GOP nomination. They are Cruz, Marco Rubio and Donald Trump. The rest at this point are just running for cabinet positions in a new administration. The only exception to that might be Rand Paul, who is hopefully running for reelection to his Senate seat.
But there is something about Ted Cruz that is absolutely essential to this election.
The next President is going to make several appointments to the Supreme Court. Who ever the next President is will fundamentally move the court. Can you imagine the Supreme Court justices Hillary Clinton would appoint? No one has to wonder because we already see them in the four liberal members of the Court.
But what about the Republicans?
The Republican track record hasn't been great. Ronald Reagan gave us Antonin Scalia who is one of the greatest justices of all time. He also gave us Anthony Kennedy, who has been the swing vote when the court has moved left on issues like homosexual marriage and he gave us one of the worst justices of all time, Sandra Day O'Conner. George H.W. Bush gave us Clarence Thomas but also gave us a disaster named David Souter. George W. Bush gave us Samuel Alito but also gave us one of the huge disappointments, namely John Roberts.
Freedom and liberty hang in the balance. In most of the major decisions where liberty has been saved, such as Citizens United or the District of Columbia v. Heller case were decided by 5-4 margins.
America is one bad Supreme Court appointment away from seeing the First and Second Amendments turned into meaningless words. The left already says religious liberty should be trumped by homosexual rights. The left believes that none of us should be allowed to own a gun. What will one more bad Supreme Court Justice do to those rights?
Ted Cruz is the only candidate who can be trusted select Supreme Court justices who will be conservatives. Marco Rubio cannot. His association with the Gang of Eight proved that. Given Donald Trump's past, his choices for the Supreme Court would be questionable at best.
With liberty hanging in the balance, we cannot take any chances with a President who will give us yet another bad Supreme Court justice.
That is why Ted Cruz is our only hope.
Stevenson. Dewey. Clinton, same thing.
Why should that put a question mark on the Cruz campaign? Unless one wants the country to an isolationist country it would benefit us to have good people inside with a pulse on what they are doing in order to countermeasure what isn’t beneficial to this country....or at the very least be able to leverage. One stays connected in order to determine the actual landscape of what’s coming.....and that no nation in and of itself will stop as it’s far to late now to do so.
Hillary isn't Johnson. She's more like Walter Mondale. But that doesn't mean Cruz is guaranteed to win 49 states. He's no Reagan, and the US has moved leftward since 1984.
Trump has the best chance of beating Hillary, and that's a prerequisite for appointing justices to the Supreme Court.
Hopefully Cruz can restore the Constitution as rule of law, after Trump is forced to get his hands a bit dirty. But that’s life after 8 years of Obama. The Dems will use the courts to stop EVERYTHING the next Republican president attempts, including perfectly legal acts of Congress - those are the types of judges we now have. Until we can either get rid of those judges, or outnumber them enough, they will have to be ignored by the next Republican president.
This is a great graph. Cruz has the personal character and the conservative convictions we need in the POTUS. He’s not pretending to be a conservative; he is a conservative. He’s not a guy who has praised Hillary and donated vast sums of money to the Clinton Foundation. He isn’t a three times married guy who sets a poor example with his personal life. He speaks in a calm yet righteous tone without being a boorish, vain lout. Vote for Cruz, not the phony.
Believe what you want. Carson, Fiorina, etc. were all out of thin air, but Cruz is rising in spite of the MSM’s hate. Whatever. I love Cruz to death, but he could never overcome the GOPe. Trump can. I hope he takes Cruz along for the ride.
Cruz gave us Justice Roberts....and he stinks on ice !
He is tea party
Go learn some political history!
It was Truman V Dewey and Ike V Stevenson.
It was Cruz who suggested Roberts, the moron who could have stopped ObamaCare TWICE and instead made up his own, NOT IN THE CONSTITUTION, reason for it to be okay.
Ted Cruz will add the Conservative tone to a Trump general election run by joining Trump as the VP nominee.
Cruz has impressive Conservative credentials and a legislative background. The VP’s job is essentially as the President of the Senate.
Trump will add to his base Cruz’s Conservative voters and put the round peg in the round hole as far as the VP’s responsibilities.
Cruz is young and a good follow up to a Trump Presidency, although I think the Dems will fight tooth and nail against Cruz concerning Article II eligibility. Something the GOPe didn’t have the guts for re: Obama.
Justice Thomas is Trump’s favorite on the Supreme Court.
Now, which friggin idiots did former Republican President’s Nominate to the Supreme Court?
Some are still there and they cannot be counted upon to follow the Constitution, just like the Democrat President’s choices.
The question is, who will Hillary or Bernie put on the Supreme Court (?), not Trump.
Cruz has already siad he will not be Trump's VP.
Trump will add to his base Cruz’s Conservative voters
Not a chance in hell. In fact, if Cruz signs on with Trump, I'll never support him again. You are living in a fantasy.
Not fantasy.... just watch the inter-reaction between Cruz/Trump.
A pragmatic Cruz will join in a Trump general election run and win!
Drawing limes in the sand is a loser’s ploy......
We need to elect a president that can talk over both the MSM and the Democrats in Congress....Someone that can get the people behind him on every issue....sorry, but that man will be Trump....for better or for worse....
If someone else is plowing my field being battered by the hot sun, dirty in the stirred up dirt, I guess I'll just let him plow.
A pragmatic Cruz [...]
If Cruz had a pragmatic bone in his body, I wouldn't care for him a bit. Pragmatism is always the enemy of principle. Perhaps you are projecting...
Drawing limes in the sand is a loser’s ploy......
Right... Tell that to them boys that were at Iwo Jima.
We need to elect a president that can talk over both the MSM and the Democrats in Congress....Someone that can get the people behind him on every issue....
No we don't - We need a President that will do the right thing regardless of the MSM and the Democrats in Congress. Talk is cheap. The work is in the doing.
sorry, but that man will be Trump....for better or for worse....
No, there has never been a president from the right who has ever won without Christians particularly, and Conservatives in general. Trump will not have the Christian Right, and I doubt very highly that he has Conservatives, even now, but especially before it's done.
The problem with populists is that they don't really stand for anything except being popular. My bet is that Trumps electoral demise will come with his foot planted firmly in his own mouth.
A very nasty half-truth. In a casual interview, and with pride in his accomplished sister, Trump said she would make an excellent justice.
The next sentence you conveniently left out...the fact that he went on to say that she doesn't have the slightest interest in the job.
Are you posting here to fool freepers all the time or just most of the time?
Leni
You mention the Republicans, but hey wait! Isn’t Ted Cruz a Republican??
So was Reagan (who started as a Democrat) - what's your point????
Now for a short public service announcement to all on FR:
We need to ensure we don't get another Obama-like America Hater as the next President.
The best way to ensure that is to actively support a candidate as the next President.
I prefer Cruz and my money goes to his campaign, hence the Cruz link. If you like someone else, donate to him/her (find your own link to do it) and if you use FR and don't donate, then please don't complain about the welfare leeches or those who have Obama Phones because, functionally, you are no different than any other who enjoys the fruits of others' work for your own benefit.
PS - If you are one of those who cannot afford even a small donation to FR or a candidate, God Bless and happy FReeping!.....
GO CRUZ!! Keep it up Trump!!
Trump’s sister Mary Ann Berry was a colleague of Sam Allito (she spoke for his confirmation hearing in his behalf). They have identicle voting records on abortion The case you are referring to is identicle to a case from Nebrasca adjudicated by the Supreme Court hours before they made their decision The falicious idea that she is soft on abortion is propagated by the extreme left and STUPID people who are too lazy to look up the truth !
Thank Leni for the heads up !
“Today conservatives are in the position of saying, “Help us Ted Cruz. You are our only hope.â€â€
That’s just gay.”
Cruz is being assigned divine status. It is getting creepy.
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