What Cruz said about immigration during his March 23rd announcement speech, and what he said for months afterwards bears no resemblance to what he is now saying after Trump has for a few months taken the issue to a place no one else had, or would have taken it. Cruz is tagging along behind Trump, modifying his "highly principled" positions to try and catch up with the real leader on the issues of this campaign.
I've seldom seen some Freepers act so silly as to try and pretend that Cruz has led on the immigration, or any principle issue of this campaign. Ethanol is a minor side show with all that is at stake related to immigration and trade policy, where we all know Trump has taken the lead since the day of his late June announcement.
Only silly if you ignore his actual history and blot out the parts that you don’t want to see.
I know of no Cruzers saying he was perfect. But I will note that many people blasting us for ‘purity’ sure seem to want it.