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3 Reasons Trump Could Put Cruz on the Supreme Court
The Fiscal Times ^ | November 22, 2016 | Ciro Scotti

Posted on 11/22/2016 3:21:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

On the list of surprising visitors calling on president-elect Donald Trump last week, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas ranks right up there with alleged Secretary of State candidate Mitt Romney.

While Romney who called Trump a “phony” and talked openly about derailing his candidacy during the campaign had an actual job attached to the meeting with his former nemesis on Saturday, Cruz’s visit was billed as more of a drop-by.

It’s true that after the name-calling between Cruz and Trump (who tagged him “Lyin’ Ted’) during the primary campaign; after Trump’s derogatory comments about Cruz’s wife; after Trump’s suggestion that Cruz’s father had a role in the JFK assassination; and after Cruz neglected to endorse Trump at the Republican National convention, they did in the end come together. In September, Cruz finally endorsed Trump and campaigned for him....

(Excerpt) Read more at thefiscaltimes.com ...


TOPICS: Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; cruz; cruz2016; cubanadian; globalism; goldmansachs; scotus; stupidity; supremecourt; trump; trumpscotus; trumptransition
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To: deport

I don’t know...nobody has declared. Nobody knows....yet.


121 posted on 11/22/2016 5:26:34 PM PST by nopardons
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not confirmable.


122 posted on 11/22/2016 5:29:11 PM PST by Jim Noble (The pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the handles)
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To: heterosupremacist
That's probably one of THE most pathetic, stupid,extremely bad stab at Jacobean English, lousy attempt at being intelligent posts EVER posted to this site, n00b!

Trump isn't infallible and I probably understand The Donald and how he "thinks", far better than you ever shall. LOL

123 posted on 11/22/2016 5:30:19 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Fantasywriter
Really? That was it? I heard that about Trump long before Cruz used it. It was in the realm of common knowledge. Trump even fed it by implying that he got the best politicians money could buy. Ok, that is strange to me. Those were not new accusations, just unanswered ones.

Thanks for taking the time to explain it to me.

124 posted on 11/22/2016 5:31:25 PM PST by D Rider
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To: BenLurkin
What Cruz did at the convention was unforgivable.

Yep. And please send someone... anyone... down to Texas so we can replace him in the Senate. He cannot be trusted.

My hope is that Trump nominates him just so he'll be destroyed in the confirmation process, then maybe Rick Perry will step up and run.

125 posted on 11/22/2016 5:33:11 PM PST by Nita Nupress (To Wash DC: America is coming. And we're bringing Galt-Right Donald J. Trump with us.)
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To: BenLurkin
“What Cruz did at the convention was unforgivable.”

Better get your determination to Trump asap.

126 posted on 11/22/2016 5:34:27 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: nopardons

I thought maybe you had heard some scuttlebutt. They will begin to talk now that the
Presidential race is over. Late into the Fall next year things will pick up.


127 posted on 11/22/2016 5:34:53 PM PST by deport
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To: D Rider

How could it be common knowledge when its false? I think you are playing us.


128 posted on 11/22/2016 5:36:07 PM PST by JayGalt
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To: Fantasywriter
The idiotic Cruzombies just can't accept their fate and that of their idol with feet of clay up to his very bad receding hairline.

And just as twee Teddy does....they lie to our faces and then yell at us, call us names, and pretend to be as pure as the driven snow.

129 posted on 11/22/2016 5:37:20 PM PST by nopardons
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To: JayGalt

I do not disagree with what you are saying. My question was much simpler than that . Are you ok, or should I say, would you be ok with Trump giving the Clinton’s a free pass?


130 posted on 11/22/2016 5:38:10 PM PST by D Rider
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To: D Rider
You are closed minded, still refuse to see and then accept the fact that Cruz is NOT anything at all even vaguely like the person you have elevated to an underserved height.

It is long past time for you to awake from your dazed, stupified state and face reality.

131 posted on 11/22/2016 5:40:05 PM PST by nopardons
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To: JayGalt

A lot of common knowledge things are false. They are like generalizations. Like Trump’s locker room talk, he also Implied he bought politicians. I have no idea if it is true or bravado. But it left unanswered questions. These sort of things come out in campaigns.


132 posted on 11/22/2016 5:44:48 PM PST by D Rider
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz would be great as a SC justice as far as I am concerned. However he has enemies all over the place. Not sure the RINOs in Congress would go along. I just don’t see Trump spending political capital on Cruz.


133 posted on 11/22/2016 5:45:31 PM PST by plain talk
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To: D Rider

Your reply perfectly illustrates why the Cruz resentment festers. Cruz told a wholesale, disgusting, shameless, vile lie about Trumo, and you totally downplay it. Cruz turned his supporters into cultists who are incapable of criticizing him even for the most putrid behavior.

There is much more to Cruz’ dishonesty and perfidy, but if presented with it, you would downplay and sideline it. THIS is the problem—and you will never understand it.


134 posted on 11/22/2016 5:46:43 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: nopardons

Ok, thanks for your thoughts.


135 posted on 11/22/2016 5:46:58 PM PST by D Rider
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To: bobonthejob
Cruz has NEVER been "the outsider"!

Cruz is a Bushite, a GOPEer, a government teetsucker, who has played his "followers" like a fiddle; lied to you and then you built him up to such a height, you can't see beyond the soles of his shoes.

You don't understand it?

how damned bloody dense are you?

Here's a great game...let's pretend that what Cruz did and said, is what Trump did and say. How would you see him and his supporters?

Oh forget the supporters bit.....the Cuzers were and still are far MORE rabid than ANY Trumper has EVER been !

136 posted on 11/22/2016 5:47:34 PM PST by nopardons
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To: D Rider

‘Trump giving the Clinton’s a free pass?’

I already corrected this lie, yet you keep repeating it. You’re as bad as Cruz.


137 posted on 11/22/2016 5:48:27 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There is another reason, for both Sessions and Cruz. They come from Republican states, so Republicans would be chosen to replace them.

Importantly, the balance of the senate is so important right now, that President Trump may consider nominating a *Democrat* senator, from a Republican state, for a lesser cabinet post, so that he will be replaced by a Republican.

Yet one more reason to nominate Cruz is that the Democrats would throw everything they’ve got against him. And if he was still confirmed, maybe by a nuclear option simple majority vote, it would break the Democrats ability to resist.

Because there will be many, many more judges and even justices to confirm in the future.


138 posted on 11/22/2016 5:48:38 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Friday, January 20, 2017. Reparations end.)
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To: Fantasywriter

Trumo = Trump


139 posted on 11/22/2016 5:49:31 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: D Rider

You are not serious, this a ridiculous question. I hope Clinton goes to jail with all her conspirators. But I can wait & let justice take its course not jump up and down like a kid asking for a lollypop. I also have no interest in helping the press back Trump into a corner or letting them create distrus between Trump and the American people, not that he would let them anyway. That is what you appear to be focused on doing.


140 posted on 11/22/2016 5:49:47 PM PST by JayGalt
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