Posted on 02/14/2016 2:28:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The stunning death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia -- announced just hours before the six remaining Republican presidential candidates gathered Saturday in South Carolina for a debate -- immediately ups the ante in the GOP primary and could well cement the base's commitment to nominating a "true" conservative along the lines of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
"We ought to make the 2016 election a referendum on the Supreme Court," Cruz told NBC's Chuck Todd on "Meet the Press" Sunday. "I cannot wait to stand on that debate stage with Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders and talk about what the Supreme Court will look like depending on who wins."
As Cruz well knows, there is no issue that so animates the Republican base as appointments to the judicial bench -- most notably the Supreme Court. Many conservatives have never forgiven then-President George H.W. Bush for appointing David Souter to the court -- only to see Souter turn into a less-than-ideal conservative pick. George W. Bush's 2005 nomination of Harriet Miers was scuttled by conservatives who believed her past record demonstrated a lack of fealty to their principles....
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Okay, then what do you base Cruz’s “unelectability” on?
It should but apparently, he’s damaged himself so much, it won’t.
When will these candidates learn that Iowa is a fluke? They start preaching and pandering to win it, then they do and then they can’t shake the halo they’ve put over them. It happens over and over again.
On my assessment of the state of the electorate, the unpopularity verging on loathing of Evangelical Christianity among the voting public, and Cruz's poor skills as a candidate.
Look, it's just an opinion. I may be wrong. If Cruz somehow manages to be the GOP nominee (and if there are only two candidates), I will certainly vote for him.
Some of the contumely directed at him on this board is disgraceful.
But, I follow politics semi-obsessively, I live in the Northeast among Reagan Democrats and am married into a Reagan Democrat family.
Nobody wants to have a beer with Ted Cruz.
It comes down to judgement, and, in my judgement, he can't make it. So, I don't support him.
Best of luck to you and your candidate.
Scalia’s death underscores th/e need to elect a principled constitutionalist conservative, not just some Republican.
You could put in a Kennedy type to replace someone like Ginsburg, and while it would be disappointing, it would still move the needle in the right direction.
But plugging in some “consensus” candidate for Scalia would be a disaster.
Wishful thinking is the formation of beliefs and making decisions according to what might be pleasing to imagine instead of by appealing to evidence, rationality, or reality. It is a product of resolving conflicts between belief and desire.
you post: “ So what kind of judges would pro-ILLEGAL eminent domain Trump pick?”
For planned parenthood/abortion - from his own mouth, (Be warned. Posting Donald outing himself will get you nasty remarks for the Trumpsters - they resent proof.)
I consider it an honor - and a blessing - that you don't know me
That’s weird because not a single female I know would vote for Trump. We all prefer Sen. Cruz.
And the very night before the election - Reagan was going to lose 2 t0 one. I remember Blather Rather's gleeful face spouting this.
And indeed, the vote went 2 to 1 ... only FOR Reagan.
the next day, Blather looked like he'd been crying all night.
And Susan Estrich WAS crying and blubbering - and appeared soused -
It was wonderful
?????
You opine” Cruz can NOT win the general, you are VERY correct!!!! Cruz may be conservative but he is NOT prepared to be POTUS!!!! He is a VERY young lawyer PERIOD!!!!”
“MAY” be a conservative?
Excerpt: “ 100% lifetime rating from the ACU, a 97% rating from Conservative Review and a 100% rating from Heritage Action”
http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2015/12/01/the-conservative-case-for-ted-cruz-n2087162
“Not prepared...” as apposed to whom? Bernie or Clinton?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz
“VERY young lawyer”?
He’s 36. Is Bernie at 75 and her thighness at 67, preferable, becasue of their AGE? Does age TRUMP real experience, knowledge and commitment to conservatism?
You’re really not very clever, TRUMPeter.
It will, as no one else standing on the stage last night would appoint someone I would like except Cruz and Carson.
Ted Cruz is 45 years old and well qualified to be POTUS.
Thank you for the correction re age - yes, 45 - PERFECT, along with his experience, Conservative standing on all counts, integrity,and intelligence - all of which are far above the rest.
And he WILL bring us back in line with the Constitution - which he knows backwards and forwards and has spent his life protecting. .
And that is why all the dark powers are terrified of him and working together to keep him out; the GOPe, the media. the demRats - maybe the first time they’ve all worked together!
I can understand, sadly why so much of the public is against him - the past 4-5 decades have little to no education - certainly on world history. They haven’t been educated, they’ve been systematically indoctrinated.
The part that most has me flummoxed is the Freepers who seem to’ve turned rabid in their adoration of Trump, even to the point of knowingly LYING?? This is a great puzzlement to me. I have, for years, counted on FR for engaging in intelligent, conservative, polite discussion in an otherwise World going mad..
That seems to be gone?
Furthermore, jJust last summer Trump said before defunding Planned Parenthood, we should look at their “good aspects.â€
Plus, he’s still talking that way. Thanks for the link.
People who didn’t like Romney much still voted for him because they thought he could get elected.
We sure don’t want the strong conservatives to stay home again.
You might also be interested in this tweet, w/link from Ted Cruz:
“Ted Cruz â€@tedcruz 5h5 hours ago
ICYMI: Fox News: New Cruz ad highlights Donald Trump’s support for Planned Parenthood:
https://www.tedcruz.org/news/icymi-fox-news-new-cruz-ad-slams-trump-on-planned-parenthood-funding/ … https://youtu.be/kV_aUWVjzv0 “
snip from https://twitter.com/tedcruz
No, we don't.
But the "strong conservatives" are going to do whatever they are going to do, anyway.
What percentage of the electorate do you believe are "strong conservatives"?
An estimated 4 million strong conservatives REFUSED to vote for Moral Monster Mitt Romney (hereinafter M3R) for a wide variety of good and sufficient reasons. I was one of them. I would do it again. M3R was no better than Obozo on the issues that matter. If Scalia died on his watch, he would have appointed some quisling like David Souter who would have been no better than what Obozo would nominate. The difference is that the royalist slaves of Wall Street, of K Street and of the US Chambers of Corrupt Crony Commerce would not resist M3R's nomination but would quickly approve it and move back to selling out working people, fattening corporate bottom lines and ignoring issues that matter as usual.
As things stand, I shall vote for TRUMP!!! IF he manages to get the GOP nomination. That is subject to change because voting for him would be the most distasteful vote I will have cast since I voted for Moral Midget Gerald Ford (M2F). If TRUMP!!! seems dishonest on his alleged conversion to pro-life, he won't get my vote or that of many others. Third party alternatives exist and it is not morally permissible to vote for evil on such an issue.
TRUMP!!!'s campaign to date has been the very model of low rent campaigns. In my youth, I worked in railroad yards and in factories to finance my education. My co-workers tended to be gentlemen who would not lower themselves to engage in the foul language that is the most common feature of The Donald's campaign. That alone will not cost him my vote but it won't help him either. I had to raise three daughters during Slick Willy's presidency and had to answer too any questions about what that news meant about his misbehavior. That will suffice for one lifetime.
The Donald has been married three times. I will give him some slack because serial adultery is a lifestyle of the rich and famous. Not moral but it is all too often their lifestyle. When married to Ivana, he was apparently cheating with Marla. While "married" to Marla, he was cheating with Melania. Were those the only affairs or will we be treated to some abortionist coming forward during the campaign and after he is nominated to claim to have been on "retainer" to discreetly handle resulting "problems?" To those who would remind us that Ronaldus Maximus was divorced from Jane Wyman and later "married" Nancy Davis, the obvious reply is that he was not even acquainted with Davis when he was divorced by Jane Wyman several years earlier. Also Reagan did not initiate the divorce. Wyman fully endorsed him for POTUS in 1980 when questioned by scandal-mongering lame stream media.
The Donald claims to have become pro-life but STILL insists that the infernal Planned Parenthood crime cabal does good things for "women's health" that can be publicly funded but not their abortion operations. This is like saying that the Nazis did a terrific job building autobahns and public works and therefore deserved tax money.
Let's review the bidding as it stands now. First, I want a LOT more from a POTUS than THE WALL ALMIGHTY. While Obozo has retired the trophy for illegal immigration and his lawlessness requires a lengthy vacation from immigration generally, THE WALL is far from the only issue before us.
So long as the Roe vs. Wade holocaust continues, no GOP candidate who is not absolutely and credibly committed to making the SCOTUS appointments that will certainly overturn that infamous decision will be elected. There are and always will be enough strong conservatives to guarantee that.
Conservatives cannot become conscientious objectors to conscience itself. No one will continue the baby-killing in my name or by my vote, no matter what else the candidate claims to stand for. Baby-killers are not trustworthy. This is the third rail for "Republican" POTUS candidates who dare trifle with the base. This is especially true when they lie like M3R did and claim to be pro-life just to shush the base. This is the hill that conservatives will choose to die on.
Native American heroes, at the end of their lives, overtaken by illness, age and their accumulating disabilites from battle wounds, would "stake themselves out" on a battlefield, tying a leather thong to an ankle and to a spear driven into the ground, which meant that the warrior was committed on his honor not to separate himself from that restraint. He could fight his last fight within the radius of that tether. Enemy warriors understood that it was a high honor to kill the tethered warrior because it would be a tribute to his lifetime of bravery. The tethered warrior would say words to the effect: Today is a good day to die! He would fight until his inevitable death.
If the conservative movement to which I have devoted my long adult life is going to die because so many people are willing, indeed eager, to settle for THE WALL and the Pied Piper of Manhattan in lieu of every conservative principle that has motivated us to date, then it is time to stake ourselves out because today will be a good day to die!
Fortunately neither Bill Buckley nor Ronaldus Maximus nor John Ashbrook nor M. Stanton Evans nor Antonin Scalia nor William Rehnquist nor Bill Rusher nor James Burnham nor Frank Meyer nor most of the great early leaders of the conservative movement had to live to see this sorry election year and the current collapse of our movement.
“What percentage of the electorate do you believe are “strong conservatives”? “
Possibly enough to make Romney LOSE the General Election. Romney DID get the independent votes, but there’s a heck of a lot more of the strong conservative base that stayed home.
Next, Ted Cruz. Ted got enough strong conservatives to win the Iowa caucus, and come in second in New Hampshire. Furthermore, I believe even the Republicans, on the whole, are more “moderate” aka liberal in New Hampshire, but even in NH, Ted Cruz came in second. This shows Ted is attractive to moderates as well, imo.
Please see my post #79, BlackElk.
I will be voting for TED CRUZ, the Reagan conservative.
After all, if you run a liberal (Trump) against a liberal (Dem candidates), you will end up with a liberal.
“Trump has long praised Mitch McConnell, the man who is the embodiment of why people are fed up with the party and attracted to Trump in the first place. While conservatives were fighting to get rid of McConnell in the 2014 primaries, Trump said, “It would be a shame if he didn’t win, because he has such power, it’s so good for his state.”
It comes as no surprise, then, that late last year Trump criticized Cruz for acting like a “maniac†when he called McConnell a liar. How does Trump plan to fight political correctness and the culture of the D.C. establishment when he has championed the mastermind of the GOP establishment and is offended by the non-politically correct criticism of its leader?”
more: https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/01/trumps-questionable-political-history
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