Ted was 29 years old and fresh out if college when Roberts was selected. He had very little influence and nothing to do with his nomination.
This is an outright lie.
He liked Roberts. We all did. Until Roberts let us down.
I remember the conspiracy theories that maybe Obama might have something on him.
You can’t always tell what’s in a man’s heart you can only hope he’s true, honest and principled. David Suter was also a disappointment elected by a Republican so you never know.
To blame Cruz is dishonest in itself. Sorry you believe the lies without checking the math.
The Robert’s support is insignificant. Surely, it’s everything else about the man. If Cruz blaming the Bernie mob on Trump doesn’t churn your stomach, then nothing will. Even bringing the Bush crowd into his campaign is insignificant to that. Cruz is really the worst of the worst because of his usage of the Church.
Didn’t Cruz write an editorial in support of Roberts?
I don’t blame Cruz for Roberts so much as I blame him for his sneaky behavior in the Senate...and in fact even just getting elected to the Senate and “forgetting” to mention that he was a Canadian. And that isn’t all...his sneaky votes, his lies on the campaign trail.
I just don’t like the guy.
Its not enough to say you prefer Trump. You must find Cruz evil incarnate to join the club.
John Roberts was seated on the Supreme Court in September of 2005.
Ted Cruz brought John Roberts on board the legal team in the Florida recount.
Ted Cruz was an adviser to the Bush campaign in the 2000 election.
Ted praised Roberts as one of the greatest constitutional minds in the country.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/214989/right-stuff-ted-cruz
According to a 2005 Sun-Sentinel report, Cruz once praised Roberts as "one of the best constitutional minds in the country."
Cruz reportedly made that comment while explaining why, as a domestic policy adviser for George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, he brought Roberts to Florida to assist with his team's legal battle over the controversial post-election recount.
And as the Texas Tribune reported three years ago, when Bush nominated Roberts to the Supreme Court in 2005, Cruz "was an outspoken advocate for his confirmation, calling him 'brilliant' and a 'lawyer's lawyer.'"
Business Insider Ted Cruz Bashing Roberts After Years of Praise
In July 2005, Cruz, who was then Texas solicitor general, wrote an oped for The National Review defending Roberts from detractors who worried about his conservative bonafides: As an individual, John Roberts is undoubtedly a principled conservative, as is the president who appointed him. He clerked for Chief Justice [William] Rehnquist, worked in the Reagan White House, and served as the principal deputy solicitor general in President George H.W. Bush’s Justice Department.
But, as a jurist, Judge Roberts’s approach will be that of his entire career: carefully, faithfully applying the Constitution and legal precedent.
The Senate should confirm him swiftly.
Cruz also took credit for bringing Roberts into the fold of the George W. Bush campaign, when they needed someone to defend them in Bush v. Gore.
Cruz graduated from Princeton University in 1992, and from Harvard Law School in 1995. Between 1999 and 2003, Cruz was the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an associate deputy attorney general at the United States Department of Justice, and domestic policy advisor to President George W. Bush on the 2000 George W. Bush presidential campaign.
Roberts was appointed in 2005 and lying Ted was working for {Solicitor General}, Texas and arguing cases in front of the Supreme Court.
There is some lying, here, lucky american, and you are doing it.