He doesn't seem to have a true Warrior mentality.
Our Founders started a D*amn revolution!! It doesn't get any more Warrior than that.
Cruz has to clearly understand that most Americans are red-hot furious over illegals invading every corner of our Repubic.
Yet, I can't see to recall ever state that he would DEPORT all those who cross our border and are currently here illegally.
If from the beginning if he would have went with his gut and grabbed just the immigration issue in the way Trump has, he would be in the lead --- that one issue, that simple.
People know we are losing our Republic, they gravitate to someone that they believe emotionally first on this Republic-destroying issue.
Cruz should be very honest and state now in clear, simple terms if he will push to build a wall and deport ALL those who are here legally. On Immigration, I don't want him speaking in generalize platitudes and politician talk -- he needs to repeatedly use the phrase I will work to deport ALL those who are here illegally. That simple phrase would have ignited his campaign early on.
Then again, maybe by not doing so he has caused the general public to perceive (rightly or wrongly) that he is truly weak on immigration. That is my conclusion and hence my decision to slowly move from supporting to Cruz to now supporting Trump.
Instead, Trump grabbed that issue and here we are...
I like very much the effect he's having shaking things up on many of the key issues, something we haven't seen since the beginnings of the Tea Party. But he is not the guy I would want in the WH with all that's going on today, especially overseas.
He also comes across as way over-sensitive to criticism and thus easily provoked to react and blurt out stuff he may regret later. ie, give an misinformed or oversimplified 'solution' to an important problem.
I agree with your diagnosis and your solution.
I did say that, while Cruz is the best I’ve seen in decades, he is not perfect. I was referring to his desire to expand the H1b program dramatically which I think is indefensible in the present climate. In any climate, really.
And while I loved his extended attack on McConnell for snookering him on TPA, the fact that he *could* be snookered by McConnell on anything surprised me.
He says a lot of the right things on the border but he needs to toughen it up and he needs to revise his views on H1b. Actually, I don’t even like Trump’s position on H1b, he wants to expand it to. Granted that he wants to force companies to pay H1b’s more than Americans, but thats easily beaten with a little fancy bookkeeping. The program should not be expanded at all, not while Americans are standing on street corners out of work.