I was just reading it - it’s pretty long and detailed!
“Yet on second viewing, what’s striking about Cruz’s pivot is how premeditated it sounds. Cruz’s tell is the way he was able to rattle off, with remarkable accuracy, the most unflattering questions his rivals had already been asked. It seems clear that Cruz arrived in Boulder planning to spend the first part of the debate making a mental list of every “biased†query for later use. By the time Quintanilla got around to him, he was ready to strike.”
I’m not sure about that - i think he saw an opportunity and took it. He has that audiomemory thing going, which us why he remembered the questions. He did stumble a little, hemming and hawing just a little. His speaking style, though, does sound scripted even when it isn’t.
Him being calculating actually endears me to him more. I can understand and respect that. BUT is he so calculating as to back something like amnesty to get the nomination? Seems he might be willing to compromise his principles to get the bigger prize. He’s been silent most of the campaign on illegal immigration, and is both conservative and smart enough to know he needed to say something. His just-released policy is vague on the illegals here. More cold calculations? I don’t think I can trust that.
No, I don’t trust him on amnesty at all. I also think that his objection to anchor babies being stopped without a constitutional amendment ties into his own very murky qualifications to run for President.