Does Jose Medellin agree with your assessment?
Do the Supreme Court decisions he won agree with your assessment?
Do the voters of Texas agree with your assessment?
I didn’t find Trump’s vote on TPA or Corker very impressive either.
I know I don’t find the long history of explicitly liberal public statements by trump to be compelling.
You’re kind of evading the obvious here.
A man has to prove himself through deed to rightfully claim any title.
It’s not enough to simply proclaim that Ted’s conservative. He needs to demonstrate it in the only real way possible - through making conservative votes in the Senate, and by vocally supporting conservative bills put forth by others. There’s also nothing stopping him from sponsoring conservative legislation, himself.
Now, at this juncture, it’s a bit late for that, as he’s already running for president. We can only measure his ideological compass direction by what votes he’s placed since being in Congress.
I don’t claim to know his full voting record in detail, but I do know that an affirmative vote for TPA and Corker are about the last things a real conservative legislator would do.