Oh and one other thing to all my FR friends...we should not expect perfect ideological purity on every issue from our candidates...the only person ON THE PLANET that I agree with 100% of the time is ME...seems like a tall order to demand that from somebody else. So you've got to pick and choose your important deal-breaker issues and also look at the sum total of where that person stands on the spectrum. But all that can be done without running the other guy thru a grinder of your own making.
Cruz is the only GOP presidential candidate I might vote for.
Aside from his immigration policy, which is a political catastrophe for America and the Republican Party, I support Cruz on every other major issue.
As to which candidate might be better than Cruz on immigration, the answer is easy - none of them, with Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio being the most extreme and most unacceptable of all.
Immigration - specifically, decades of massive LEGAL immigration - is my number one issue. The Republican Party is losing national elections and being pulled relentlessly to the Left because of millions of imported Socialist voters. It may already be too late to reverse the damage.
Your intolerance for political “purity” on immigration tells me the only thing I need to know about your politics - massive LEGAL immigration is not your number one issue.