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To: CodeToad

This is one of the reasons I’m a Cruz supporter. I think he’s strongest in terms of the Supreme Court.

I wonder if this might get the RINOs to think twice about their effort to oust Senator Lee. Lee is Cruz’s friend. Could you see President Cruz appointing Mike Lee to the Supreme Court?


923 posted on 02/13/2016 4:17:03 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP
This is one of the reasons I'm a Cruz supporter. I think he's strongest in terms of the Supreme Court.

I wonder if this might get the RINOs to think twice about their effort to oust Senator Lee. Lee is Cruz's friend. Could you see President Cruz appointing Mike Lee to the Supreme Court?

That bold part is the problem at hand. You gotta be President before you get to pick anybody. And to become President with the current electorate means winning in the twelve swing states, that are not "red" ( we already have those ) and show no signs of clamoring for a evangelical doctrinaire conservative who jabbers openly about abortion, homo marriage and other topics that the (D)ummies use to beat us over the head with. The states with populations that are amenable to morality plays and ideological arguments are already "red" and in our column. OH, PA, MI, WI, VA, FL, NC, IA, IN, NM, NV, CO are the issue.

Furthermore, there is no predicting how any President will fare with his Supreme Court selections. None. This is a bit of a strawman. You think you can figure it out but you cannot. It is a mere article of faith. Batting averages ...

Eisenhower ... 1 for 4 ... .250 ... Warren, Harlan, Brennan, Stewart
Nixon ........ 1 for 4 ... .250 ... Burger, Blackmum, Powell, Rehnquist 
Ford ......... 0 for 1 ... .000 ... Stevens 
Reagan ....... 1 for 3 ... .333 ... O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy 
Bush41 ....... 1 for 2 ... .500 ... Souter, Thomas 
Bush43 ....... 1 for 2 ... .500 ... Roberts, Alito

As I said before, our guys really suck at this. It does not matter who they are. If this was baseball, the two Bush's would look like Ted Williams, but it's not baseball. It's more like russian roulette with a 9mm with a magazine of 16 bullets and only 5 of them are blanks and 11 of them are live.

Feel free to believe you are clairvoyant and can accurately say with certainty that your guy will rule at this. You are unfortunately gambling the fate of the republic by first believing he can get past the Kardashian electorate of 2016. And if he does not, and loses as bad as McCain and Romney, we not only lose the entire executive branch and the Supreme Court, but the RINOs will then have their Goldwater scapegoat to exile us again, forever.

1,296 posted on 02/14/2016 7:12:53 PM PST by Democratic-Republican
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