Yeah—what am I misunderstanding?
What you are missing is the simple fact that you cannot possibly know what any of the candidates is really thinking. It is purists that have given us Obama and assuming that anyone at this stage knows for a fact what a candidate is going to do has the foresight of an oracle and should enlighten us all about what is going to happen. Cruz is this, and Walker is that, and Rand is this or that is opinion and like a$$holes everyone has one.