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    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrain View Post
    Well, there's a lot of lifelong Senators still around and that's an achievement in and of itself.

    If Trump manages to get term limits passed, which I think there's about a zero percent chance of doing since the affected would have to vote for it, then that might sweeten the deal for Cruz.
    Term Limits is a sticky wicket. In one way I can see it, but in another leery over it. You lose continuity and knowledge.
    That is why the USCG created the Civilian Search and Rescue Controller job, GS-11 and GS-13. Too many people
    were being transferred out in 3 or 4 years and there was a loss of skill and knowledge. So it is a very tough issue.

    As for Cruz being offered the position? I think he might just be honored for having it offered graciously to him.
    Who knows?
    I have lost my mind. If found, please give it a snack and return it?

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    Cruz is in no way qualified to be a judge at traffic court let alone the Supreme Court. He needs to go back to Havana and wait on tables at the beachfront hotel where his father worked as a homosexual honeypot gigolo for Castro and the Soviets. Ted Cruz is an idiot who spent his college years sniffing the Princeton basketball team's jockstraps. He's gay and creepy, he sweats constantly and smells like stale menudo.

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    Cruz is qualified to be a SC Justice - there actually are no qualifications to get on the Court, beyond getting nominated and confirmed. You can be a convict, have no education, and don't even have to be a natural-born citizen. You can even run a home brew email server in your basement, and have perjured yourself 5,347 times to Congress.

    I further think that Cruz would be an excellent replacement for Scalia. Cruz's reputation is that he has an excellent legal mind, and he respects the Consititution, just like Scalia.

    Would he be interested - if it meant no longer being a Senator and never running for President? I'd say yes. The Supreme Court is for life, it's low stress and high reward, and you never get overruled. President is for 4 or 8 years, it is high stress (and high reward, but only if you have a slush-fund "Foundation"), and you can frequently get overruled - by the Supreme Court.

    And don't forget that you actually have to get elected first, after 18 months of campaigning and mud slinging. And I don't think Ted Cruz would actually ever win a Presidential election. The best he can do is what happened this year, which is to do well in the primaries for a while. Let's face it, he's a niche candidate that can have a strong 10% following, but would never have broad appeal.
    Ecclesiastes 10:2 - A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him to the left.
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    Screw Ted Cruz.


    Repeat after me... Supreme Court Justice Trey Gowdy...
    "I am allergic to piety, it makes me break out in rash judgements." - Penn Jillette
    "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
    "The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered." - Robert G. Ingersoll

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    Quote Originally Posted by hjmick View Post
    Screw Ted Cruz.


    Repeat after me... Supreme Court Justice Trey Gowdy...

    Gowdy can take Ginsburg's seat.
    Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum

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    Quote Originally Posted by hjmick View Post
    Screw Ted Cruz.


    Repeat after me... Supreme Court Justice Trey Gowdy...
    Nice! He would fit in quite well!

    He's straightforward and takes no prisoners! Plus, he knows the
    Law and Constitution.
    I have lost my mind. If found, please give it a snack and return it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrain View Post
    Gowdy can take Ginsburg's seat.
    Hilarious! Yes, she looks like she's 90 going on 115...

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    Ecclesiastes 10:2 - A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him to the left.
    Wise men don't need advice, and fools won't take it - Ben Franklin
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    Quote Originally Posted by Russ View Post
    Hilarious! Yes, she looks like she's 90 going on 115...

    She should retire.

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    I have a feeling if Hillary had won, she would have announced her retirement by now.
    Last edited by Black Diamond; 11-20-2016 at 09:02 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gabosaurus View Post
    Exactly my thinking. Cruz still wants to be president. I believe he is going to run again in 2020.
    A soldier who doesn't dream of becoming a general is a bad one - Russian Proverb.
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    Nor casting pearls to swine.
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