“Cruz was picked by Bush Rove and wrote Bush’s Amnesty papers in the early 2000’s”
Rove and Cruz have butted heads from start to finish. You have a lot of outlandish assertions but no evidence.
Cruz served as a clerk for Chief Justice Rehnquist on the Supreme Court in the mid-90s. He also worked for a small conservative constitutional law firm before going to work for W’s presidential campaign. He offended Rove there, though Cruz admitted he overstepped his bounds a number of times, and this kept him from getting any appointments in the Bush admin.
So, he took an offer to work for Texas Gov. Abbott. He represented Texas before the Supreme Court for five years where he earned his early track record as a conservative. These are the evidence-based facts, not the emotional, intuitive imaginations of someone who holds a grudge over Cruz’ mistakes, failures, and sins.
In 2009 Cruz raised over a million dollars with a planned campaign to become the Texas attorney general, but then the current attorney general at the time decided to stay. When Hutchison announced her retirement, Cruz went against Rove and the GOPe, aligned with the Tea Party, and campaigned against and defeated Dewhurst in a major upset.
In 2013, Cruz defied the GOPe on the government shutdown. He listened to people like those on this site. He listened to Tea Party supporters. He listened to conservatives. He ignored the GOPe bigwigs and made himself odious to them. Cruz managed to get the shutdown, but the GOPe went mushy and attacked him for political fallout.
During the next couple of years, Cruz became known for bashing his fellow Republicans to their faces and in the press, much like John McCain, EXCEPT for their not being faithful to their campaign promises and commitment to conservative principles and the official party platform. McCain was the opposite—always attacking Republicans for being conservative.
“In two years, if Cruz is re elected, we’ll just see more of the same impotency from Cruz.”
Cruz is a senator. He can not do the job without support from other senators. He has been on the right side of issues and the voting record most of the time—better than almost any other senator during the same time period.
“My, you are so over-invested in Cruz, ain’t cha?”
I’ll just take what you’re saying at face value, even though you come across as having the same secret agenda that you accuse Cruz of having. Who exactly would you prefer in Cruz’ place? Dewhurst? Would he have been a better pick to you? Was Hutchison a better senator?
You said Trump backing Cruz was a mistake. Do you prefer Beto O’Rourke? Are you advocating voting for the pro-abortion Democrat?
Even Sundance recognized Cruz was the target of the GOPe, to prevent Cruz from having a path to the White House:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/09/09/for-ted-cruz-supporters/
Sundance (and you) have many legitimate complaints about bad choices Cruz has made. TPP is probably the worst.
But if you are going to rail against him, you better have a better alternative. I contend that some Republicans, such as Mitt Romney and John McCain are (or were) so bad that a Democrat might actually be preferable. But I can’t see how anyone could sanely argue that against Cruz. If Cruz needs to go, there are about 80+ Republican senators that need to go first.
Trump recently appointed an openly lesbian judge. This was a mistake, but it was not something that anyone can point to and say Trump broke his campaign promise. It was a mistake, but we all still are fully behind him as our president. He’s human after all. I feel your objections to Cruz are unreasonable given the context of our current situation.
I’m not going to abandon Cruz and label him a RINO for his failures, just like I’m not going to abandon Trump over a mistake like this judge.
Cruz is a reliable vote to defund Planned Parenthood and repeal Obamacare. That’s more than you can say about many other Republican senators. Perhaps you should be directing your animus toward those phonies rather than Cruz, even if Cruz has some major flaws.
“there are about 80+ Republican senators that need to go first.”
I meant 80%+.
Just read Sundance/The Conservative Treehouse for the truth on Ted Cruz and please leave me be... argue with him, not me.
Don’t forget Ted Cruz’s campaign LIED to Sundance when they read his September 9/2015 assessment that Cruz did not have the numbers for the nomination.
Just do your homework from The Conservative Treehouse and try to deny his arguments about Cruz.