Cruz will never be president. He is unelectable, and frankly untrustworthy from a leadership perspective. His entire team is composed of BushBots I don’t want to see back in power. However he is a brilliant lawyer and should be Chief Justice, if there is a way to demote Roberts.
Ronald Reagan was saddled with a bunch of Bushbots, led by Bush 41 Himself, and managed still to lead an effective administration despite the Bushbots' constantly trying to paint Ronnie into a corner and "Option 'C'" him to death.
As for Chief Justice Roberts, I'd just ask him upfront for his resignation, privately. Who knows, it might work. He probably knows more acutely than anyone, what it means to have a man at the head of the Court who's vulnerable to blackmail.
Then Roberts can write his memoir about being blackmailed by Obama, and let the fur fly.
But to recur to "Bushbots" ..... How, in a future Republican administration, or a current Republican national campaign, would one go about excluding "Bushbots"? Making sure that nobody with any ties to Bush 41 or Bush 43 had anything to do with the campaign, or the Administration?
Richard Nixon once said about Bush 41, that he was one of those annoyingly inevitable people (because he knew so many people high in the GOP hierarchy) that one has to talk to, and that the best thing he could think of to do with Bush was to appoint him to something, just to make him go away.