[Hoot Gibson]

Not one penny, I agree. We live under certain and sundry forms of tyranny. The federal government forces citizens to pay for abortions, benefits for homosexual partners, rounding up and shipping Syrian refugees from the Middle East to a neighborhood near you or me, and the housing and substance to support same. We paid for the, according to former FBI Director Robert Mueller, the capture and processing for 59,000 non Mexican border crashers as of 2012. We pay for the cell phones, cigarettes, beer etc. of those who are supposedly in need of assistance. And the list is literally endless.

I for one, am extremely agitated with government, and I would like to think that soon I will not have to listen to the voice of one Barack Obama ever again. BTW, I was thrilled to hear Marco Rubio today make the statement that he would appoint a SC Justice who would interpret the law using the original intent approach. Have you heard what Ted Cruz has said along those lines? Cause this living document gig is a no go for me.

Ted Cruz is a true conservative who clerked for a very conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz has known Scalia for 20 years, including during his time clerking for Rehnquist at the Supreme Court.

If you are really concerned about who the next president will appoint to the Supreme Court, you owe it to yourself to get familiar with Cruz's stellar record as a Constitutional originalist. Nobody else running for president holds a candle to Cruz's legal experience and conservative record.

Cruz is one of the top trial attorneys in the country. His challenge to Trump to file a lawsuit was a serious one. He would love to put Trump under oath to take his deposition. Assuming Trump's lawyers are competent, they would strongly advise Trump to drop the threat of nuisance suits against Ted Cruz.

Marco Rubio earned his law degree from the University of Miami and entered politics a couple of years later. Ted Cruz has argued cases before the Supreme Court and won many times, including landmark cases such as the DC v. Heller, which struck down DC's handgun ban.

Cruz also won a major case against the Bush administration while he was Texas Solicitor General, in Texas v. Medellin, in which the death sentence against a Mexican citizen who was convicted of murdering two young girls was upheld by a 6-3 vote.

Cruz also successfully defended the Ten Commandments Monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Supreme Court.

Cruz has argued more cases before the Supreme Court than any lawyer in Texas and more than any of the 535 members of Congress. Cruz is much better qualified to serve on the Supreme Court than many past justices were when they were appointed to the Court.

As a lawyer, Rubio is novice who would need to rely on advisers to select nominees for the SCOTUS. Ted Cruz is very familiar with the process of vetting and selecting nominees to the Court.

There is no guarantee that appointing a conservative judge to the Court will result in that judge remaining an originalist, as John Roberts has proven. (Cruz was involved in selecting Roberts as one of Bush's nominees, although he has said that his first choice would have been his former boss, Michael Luddig, who was also considered.) Roberts has voted with conservatives on the Court most of the time, but he voted with the liberals to save Obamacare, which was a shock to everybody who supported his appointment.

Trump has ridiculed Cruz for "giving us" Roberts, but Cruz was a young attorney in the Bush Justice Department at the time and that decision was not made at his level. It is just another example of Trump's dishonesty, IMO.