Posted on 01/03/2017 5:42:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I’m hoping for Ted Cruz.
An interesting point....
Karl Rove is in (actually about 30 miles south of) Marfa, Texas tonight, at the ranch where AJ Scalia died.
Well, that makes sense. Appoint the most crooked, lying, POS to the Supreme Court.
“I’m hoping for Ted Cruz.”
One does not have to be likeable or photogenic to be on the USSC.
But a modicum of insight, judgement and honesty are essential.
I don’t care how smart he is, or how much he knows if that will be held out as the recommendation for him before any of the above. And Cruz has shown himself to lack all three.
I don’t care if Trump appoints men or women, young or old or whatever, as long as the appointees understand the Constitution and realize that they’re there to interpret existing law and not make new law.
Yeah, I’m looking at you John Roberts.
More substantially, it would give conservatives a brilliant purist stalwart on the Supreme Court who will not “grow in office”
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He doesn’t need to “grow in office”, he already doesn’t know what natural born citizen means, or he does and he does not care about the Constitution.
Either way, he is no purist stalwart.
Is he bait?
Trump could replace up to 5 SC justices. Ginsberg, Bryer, and Kennedy are getting on in years and Thomas has said that he has no intention of dying in his chair.
Interesting article. Seems sensible on first reading.
I admire people who have been willing to take liberal abuse without giving in. That includes Cruz, Trump, Kellyane Conway, and Ann Coulter. It is rare. It takes a great intellect and great courage.
For those who don’t know it, and even for some who do, the mainstream (liberal) media was THE media for decades. They destroyed McCarthy, Goldwater, Agnew, Nixon, Quayle, and Herman Caine.
I have a mental image of a panel asking Ann Coulter who had the best chance of winning the Republican nomination. Her response, “of the announced candidates, Donald Trump.” They all laughed at her. The camera focused on her and her deer-in-the-headlights appearance. It is hard to be laughed at in general, very hard on national T.V.
I would love to see Cruz (or Ann Coulter) on the Supreme Court.
They aren’t liberal.
They are leftists.
I wish that spell check on this site would bring up leftist as one of the alternative spellings for the word liberal
You are the one that doesn’t know what NBC means. Your position was debunked long before you ever joined here.
Cruz was my guy until he blamed trump for the Soros funded trouble in Chicago.
What a dunce.
No SIR!! I want CRUZ right NOW Right down their damned throats. You pragmatists always remember CHRISTMAS EVE 200 damned 9! While you were dancing with sugar plumbs in your heads the damned democrats were passing communist health care at YOUR EXPENSE With out one damned republican ote!!Big expense — you were to pay for dead beat welfare bums!!
No SIR. I want TED CRUZ SCOTUS NOW!! GO TRUMP!!
Focus on the enemy, and the enemy isn't a senator that is a Christian conservative, constitutionalist.
So you believe Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Jay, etc would have found a British subject to be eligible?
The recently deceased King of Thailand?
Winston Churchill?
Every anchor baby?
Cruz is a showboater w/ out-of-control ambition. A Senator for only a few months, he looked in the mirror and saw a president looking back at him.
America said no---even though he pulled every trick in the book to get ahead.
He's living off self-adulation.... presumptions that he's so "smart."
But Cruz has shown himself to lack all three of the necessary USSC requirements enumerated above.
Thinking of James Bovard made me do some research. I found the following link:
Should be worth follow-ups!
It appears that you don’t know that we are in a war. Not a war of ideas, not a kind of war, but an actual war.
In war, you don’t need honesty and insight. You need someone who kicks ass and does it well for your side. Doesn’t really matter if he’s a lying scumbag.
I’m all for Ted Cruz for USSC.
MSM -
“They aren’t liberal.
They are leftists.”
No disagreement here.
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