I am for Trump.
Yet, I agree totally that it is dishonest to blame Ted Cruz for supporting Roberts for SC justice. We all thought it was a good choice ‘on paper’ and no one should be faulted for failing to anticipate what a disappointment he would turn out to be.
Furthermore, as a Trump supporter, I was very uncomfortable whenever Trump used that against Cruz in the debates.
Remember though, Trump brought up Cruz’s support for Roberts in retaliation for Cruz insisting, time after time, that Trump would nominate liberal judges to the Supreme Court, liberal judges who he said would subvert the 2nd amendment, support partial birth abortion, and a whole litany of far left agendas. By so doing, Cruz was attempting paint Trump as a liberal which was fair game, but as soon as he argued that case it became fair game for Trump to rebut that Cruz had supported Roberts.
As a Trump supporter who believes Trump is strongly pro 2nd amendment, pro life and honestly wishes to nominate originalists in the mold of Scalia, as he says, I was annoyed with Cruz’s sideways attacks on Trump as a liberal, and thought Trump’s rebuttal was very fair in the context of “people who live in glass houses should not throw stones.”
In fact, I must say that Cruz’s ‘clever’ use of implication, entrapment and false association to malign his opponents while all the time appearing civil, is what first turned me off about him. Maybe that’s a cool for a prosecutor in a criminal case or at least other prosecutors think it’s cool, but I don’t like it.
I have always hated Cruz’s voice. The fact that he’s never done anything to improve it indicated to me that he’s stubborn and arrogant.
What totally put me off Cruz is how, after Trump said that he would not allow people to “die in the street” without healthcare—meaning that the government should pay for the absolutely destitute—Cruz (and Steve Deace, and Ben Shapiro, and Andrew Klavan, etc.—started yelling that Trump “supports single-payer, socialized healthcare FOR EVERY AMERICAN.”