Cruz needs to have a come to Trump moment and throw all his delegates Trump’s way.
After what he’s done the last couple of months, I wouldn’t trust him with anything.
I don’t think Carson should even be promoting this.
“He could be attorney general first, you know, go ahead and prosecute Hillary, and then go on the Supreme Court.”
Wouldn’t he have to arrest and deport himself first?
NO.
Cruz would go after and jail Planned Parenthood leaders for selling parts of unborn children. He would have an indictment before Feb. 1st.
I’d rather have Cruz > Christie for AG.
Christie’s got a stronger authoritarian streak that i dislike.
The Senate will never confirm him for SCOTUS. The AG slot will likely go to Chris Christie.
I am really not sure where Cruz will land and I’m not sure I even care, although my heart is troubled for his family.
I think Cruz will need to go through a period of restoring his image and repairing the damage to his credibility and integrity. But first he needs to be aware of it, and then go through healing. He simply no longer connects. And his associations are downright scary.
Uh I think that ship has sailed Ben.
Cruz for Press Secretary.
No
No to Christie too.
Too early to even think about it, let all that has happened rest for a while.
I’d prefer Ann Coulter over either one of those guys.
LOL @ Cruz being ambassador to Canada!
Cruz for SCOTUS.
No doubt there are plenty of ‘no name’ judges and other people out there who are just as tough and conservative as the popular names endorsed by the FReepers...And a no name would likely have a better chance of getting confirmed in Congress...
Cruz is a loon and a pathological liar. He doesn’t deserve any position of authority.
Cruz strikes me as intellectually conservative, but in his heart, only cruzervative.
That's sincere - it's not a knock.
I believe Cruz CHOSE conservatism intellectually as his mask, his sword - which is natural for a man who's made up mostly of just intellect - because it's rational - if you want to win a debate, you really can't be a liberal, and that may be all there is of Cruz - an argument - perhaps most of the time well formed. Real conservatives didn't first learn and adopt conservative arguments and debating points. Long before we knew what conservative formal philosophy and dogma was, whenever we met liberalism, we puked, even before we knew what it was called. Learning to argue and debate came later.
Conservatism is visceral - real conservatism is. You're disgusted by the left and love love love liberty because that's what we de facto are - like a lion cub dropped out of his mama on an african plain. Of course you are free. That doesn't mean you don't have to fight to keep it, or that you might lose your physical freedom. But you never believe you are anything but free, and anyone who threatens that ... you know in your heart you will kill them if necessary, if it comes to that, without a shred of guilt or hesitation.
But intellectual conservatism and liberty is merely an argument. It's all NR ever was ... a cult backed up by decent logic ... and see what happened to them?
Conservatism was only a means to power and being in the club
What proof is there that Cruz is any different? That he actually LOVES anything? To be conservative, you FIRST have to have a heart, THEN it has to incline strongly in a natural direction - and you have to realize that's who you are before you are abused and manipulated into being something else.
Cruz I think only loves the debate, and he loves it because it's his path to power ... for Cruz, it's just a winning formula. That's what I get when I watch him and listen to him.
Call me nasty all you want - many of you who already have. This has been my visceral reaction to Cruz from the first time I saw him speak. At first I thought him just awkward and overly rehearsed. But I've yet to see a breathing human being - I see only an intellect in service of ego - and as soon as that winning formula fails, he'll move to the next thing that will serve his starving ego.
This is consistent and common, though certainly not a guarantee, for kids who grew up in chaotic, mentally ill and dysfunctional alcoholic style families. A few, if they escape the mental illness genes that are present in probably 80% of these families and either totally escape or get caught and then escape the booze/drugs ... are left untouched and even strengthened by the experience. Ted shows signs of mere overachievement and over intellectualization as a defense against a total lack of normal human psychological nutrition.
Can't prove it - but sense it enough to say -> can't put him in serious power so long as there's even a 5% chance this is accurate or near accurate.
Yes, they have problems, but I would personally prefer Chris Cristie or Rudy Giuliani for Attorney General—and they certainly would deserve it more from Trump. I may not like all that they stand for but I think they’d be good in that position overall. Rudy in particular would be tough-as-nails on crime. Trump is the one that will set the agenda for the administration, and he is taking a very hard line on the Second Amendment (see his policy paper on his website).
At any rate, I don’t think Cruz would accept a role in the Trump administration anyway, although I do suspect that he would accept a SCOTUS seat should Trump win. I used to actually want Cruz for SCOTUS (or VP), but after watching him closely, I would be afraid that he would spend every dissent (or even concurrence) radically misrepresenting his colleagues’ positions and fighting straw man arguments, thus alienating him severely from the people he may be working with for life and pushing them away from his legal stances. Why not just stay in the Senate and try to make a name for himself there? He was only there for two years before he started to run for President. We have yet to see what he can really do as a lawmaker. Since he is aggressive, dogged, and sharp, I might consider U.S. Solicitor General as a good position for him, but he wouldn’t accept that one either I’m sure.
On a different note, I hope Trump announces that Carson will be his Surgeon General or Secretary of Health and Human Services. I get the feeling that Carson actually wants to be Secretary of Education (even though that’s one that Trump has said he wants to scale down—maybe Carson can oversee the cutbacks and decentralization). I like the idea of him announcing some of his team early on.
Christie for AG. He’s tougher than Cruz, who is malleable and wishy-washy.
For what he did to Carson in Iowa, and for standing against free speech in Chicago, and for linking Trump with the KKK, and about 25 other things, I want his next job to entail the words, “Do you want fries with that?”
Nay....Rudy is the man for AG
Cruz should tell Trunk and his new liberal side kick to pound sand.