My mistake. Cruz did publicly support the Roberts nomination
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In 2005, Cruz was Texas Solicitor General (appointed by the Texas Attorney General). Very few people other than lawyers had ever heard of him. The first time he ran for public office was when he ran for Senate in 2012. If he publicly supported Roberts, no one would have ever heard of it.
In fairness to those who actually did support Roberts, he was better than Bush’s first pick, Harriet Miers. All of the Republicans on the Senate voted for him and most of the Democrats voted against him, because everyone thought he would be conservative.
No problem.
Just want to keep the facts straight.
A lot of folks supported Roberts. They had no way of telling in 2005 that he would betray the basic tenets of jurisprudence in 2012 and 2015.
He was certainly a better choice than Harriet Myers, which unleashed a firestorm of protest.
Cruz is blameless here.
I give Trump a lot of credit because very few have stated the obvious—that Roberts made horrible rulings on Obamacare that let us down and prevented a stake from being rightfully driven into its heart.