Guess I'll have to watch more closely.
Cruz doesn’t speak Spanish and is an Evangelical, which of course is all that matters on this site. He has talked about this and presents himself this way. To me, this is pandering as much as claiming you’re black, Hispanic, Asian or whatever. I’m Catholic, and I couldn’t stand Rick Santorum because he kept presenting him and his family as sort of Catholic paragons, and somehow we should vote for him because he was a Christian.
Forget that, I want somebody who has ideas, can express them, and understands our history. Few of the candidates do.
Incidentally, on Spanish radio, the Spanish language ads depict Cruz as Hispanic and being in favor of changes to immigration laws (which I think there should be, so he’s realistic...fewer Muslims, and bring back the old larger Latin American legal quota that Obama gave to Muslims). So maybe Cruz is trying to play it both ways.
I think Cruz is a brilliant guy, I don’t think he has the ability to win friends and influence people and be president, but I’d love to see him as AG. He would totally clean up our country and is probably the only one with the determination and guts to root out Obama’s corruption. Don’t forget, it was Cruz who argued Bush vs. Gore in front of the Supreme Court.
But I hate it when people here automatically start screaming ugly things about Rubio, not based on his ideas, but on the fact that he’s (in their minds) “Hispanic.” Personally, I think he considers himself “American.” But maybe that’s old fashioned of me.