Yes, a “pathway to citizenship” can mean that they have to return to their home country and apply for citizenship like legal immigrants.
It’s not the same as saying that if you’re here illegally, you should be granted amnesty.
If we keep destroying decent candidates during the primary process, we’ll be left with Jeb. Just like we were left with Romney.
The problem is we’ve seen this all before.
They say all that ow, but when it actually comes time to implement it, it gets watered down and people’don’t want to fight for it b/c the left is going full-bitch to Hitlerize them as the menest assh0les on earth that ever existed, and that riots will hapoen and it’s their fault, yada yada yada, and our guys backpedal and BOOM! we don’t get our guys following through on what they said they’fight for.
I half-believe our guys count on this occurring so they have an excuse not to fight hard for pie-in-the-sky, down-the-road we’ll-do-this-later promises.