Bush
Obamacare? “I think the best way to repeal ObamaCare is to have an alternative.” - not close enough to an unambiguous repeal position. We cannot afford to negotiate a new medical care law while the socialists are holding the Obamacare knife to our throats.
Amnesty? “It’s not a felony. It’s an act of love.”
UNACCEPTABLE.
Trump
Obamacare? “Obamacare has to be killed now before it grows into an even bigger mess”
Amnesty? “Anchor babies were NEVER the intent of the 14th Amendment”
ACCEPTABLE - Perfect on two key issues (but marginal on the Second Amendment).
Carson
Obamacare? “ObamaCare is really, I think, the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery”
Amnesty? “Is it moral for us, for example, to take advantage of cheap labor from illegal immigrants while denying them citizenship?”
UNACCEPTABLE - one out of two is not enough in these dangerous times.
Walker
Obamacare? “Our plan calls for reducing health care costs through market-driven solutions, not by forcing us to buy an expensive health care mandate.” did not implement Obamacare in his state.
Amnesty? Mixed. I won’t quote him because he’s taken varying positions and any small set of quotes would be misleading.
ACCEPTABLE He’s great on Obamacare, but I don’t quite trust him on immigration. However, I don’t believe he would ignore a conservative Congress.
Paul
Obamacare? “I don’t really like any of ObamaCare.”
Amnesty? “the 11 million that are here, I think there could be a work status for them”
ACCEPTABLE - he’s great on Obamacare but weak on illegal immigration. However, I’d have to look at him on all other issues carefully. The socialists would attack in a whole new direction with him in office.
Rubio
Obamacare? “Defund, Repeal, & Replace Government-run Health Care”
Amnesty? Illegals “What they get is the opportunity to apply for [citizenship]”
UNACCEPTABLE on all counts. “Repeal and replace means keep some form of Obamacare.
Huckabee
Obamacare? Unclear.
Amnesty? Mixed positions.
UNDECIDED
Cruz
Obamacare? Repeal.
Amnesty? “No path to citizenship”
ACCEPTABLE - perfect
Christie
Obamacare? “expanding Medicaid in N.J. was a relatively small expansion. It’s going to benefit N.J.’s budget”
Amnesty? “I’ve never been opposed to tuition equality,” and won’t comment on citizenship for illegals.
UNACCEPTABLE in all respects.
Agree with most of your conclusions, except I had to move Cruz 3 or notches down when he was pushing furiously for the middle class job killer Pacific Trade deal. Obviously Cruz was obeying his sugar daddy rich donors and Chamber of Commerce. Does he even know how low the wages are in most of the Pacific rim countries except Japan? Has he got any clue how many factories moved from United States to Mexico after NAFTA? Or, that zilch, zero, nada number of factories moved from Mexico to United States after NAFTA?