[CatherineofAragon]

Agreed. The simple fact remains that we can’t call ourselves conservatives if we’re going to pay lip service to principle for three years and abandon it in the fourth for whatever shiny, loud thing pops up.

We’ve hoped and prayed for a solid Constitutional conservative. Remember how excited the forum was for so long, anticipating Cruz would run for president? Well, it happened. And some of us promptly threw him aside for a liberal celebrity.

If we don’t wake up, we will have a disaster on our hands, and we will deserve everything we get.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I recommend we all pray for Scalia’s health.

I am also concerned about Scalia’s health. He’s not young. If the media goes nuts — that could lead to a stroke or heart attack.

He expects his philisophic opponents to bash him, but a wildly popular Republican presidential frontrunner? Something like this can cause tremendous stress. I know that kind of stress first hand, and I was a young man in a little resaurant at the time.

And if his health suffers over some idiotic thing, it would be tragic! And Obama gets to appoint yet another liberal activist to the bench.

[Steve_Seattle]

"We've hoped and prayed for a solid Constitutional conservative. Remember how excited the forum was for so long, anticipating Cruz would run for president? Well, it happened. And some of us promptly threw him aside for a liberal celebrity.

If we don't wake up, we will have a disaster on our hands, and we will deserve everything we get."

It's hard to disagree with any of that. I'm not sure Cruz can win a national election, and I don't agree with all his policies, but at least there is no doubt he's an actual conservative and not a Johnny-come-lately who's relying on bluster and overkill, and who might even be some sort of liberal Trojan Horse.

[Norm Lenhart]

The bottom line is if people actually wanted a conservative, the record hows Ted Cruz is that guy and they would vote for him. His record is far and away the best since Reagan.

But all these so called conservatives do not want that. They want to hear pretty words and refuse to hear words with facts. That is fully a liberal thing to do. It is what liberals do. It is what the same people trashing Cruz mock liberals other than themselves for.

They trashed anyone not supporting Romney and now history repeats.Mitt told them he was going to do all these conservative things. Less than 24 hours after losing the election, he reverted fully and has since done nothing but attack and undermine conservatives.

Just like his supporters did. Just like they are doing with Cruz now.

When Sarah Palin was looking at a run those same people that screamed bloody murder for Romney did all they could here and elsewhere to trash her. Regardless of ones opinion on Palin, she is and was far more conservative than Romney or ANT of the other candidates running.

Did these ‘Conservatives’ side with her?

No.

Did they side with they guy sent Schmitt and Nicole Wallace out to torpedo her?

You bet they did.

History is what it is. I didn’t make it up.

[Hoodat]

Agreed. The simple fact remains that we can't call ourselves conservatives if we're going to pay lip service to principle for three years and abandon it in the fourth for whatever shiny, loud thing pops up.

We've hoped and prayed for a solid Constitutional conservative. Remember how excited the forum was for so long, anticipating Cruz would run for president? Well, it happened. And some of us promptly threw him aside for a liberal celebrity.

If we don't wake up, we will have a disaster on our hands, and we will deserve everything we get.

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