Ted Cruz actually said...

Judges are not supposed to make law. They are supposed to faithfully apply it.

If they filled his seat, we would have seen a Supreme Court where the will of the people would have been repeatedly cast aside.

We would have seen our democratic process controlled by five unelected lawyers here in Washington, DC.

I think it does--it serves well to rebut the caricature that some on the left try to paint of originalism.