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.
You said "Your intolerance for political “purity” on immigration"
Don't you see that this is my point? Apparently immigration is an important issue for you. For me its the 2A and an overall overreach of the FedGov. I'm sure we both have a litany of lesser issues that concern us (for the record, one of mine is illegal immigration). But, we as conservatives, MUST stop eating our own and lambasting the other conservative candidates in an effort to build up our own.
I'm firmly in Cruz' camp. But I might HAVE to vote for Walker or Paul or even Rubio...so it's ridiculous for me to tear any of them down.
I just wish we would all stop cherry picking factoids to tear a candidate down. We should all be building our guys up, not railing against them on issue x or y as though they are Satan incarnate.
We so damage our own candidates because we are seeking PERSONAL idealogical purity, that we make the resulting nominee a weakened, damaged product.