I've come to suspect that Cruz is the most crafty of them all. He opposes "amnesty" but defines it exclusively and consistently as a "pathway to citizenship." Cruz supports granting legal status to aliens while falsely promising that we can keep them as second class residents without ever giving them naturalization, believes the Constitution grants birthright citizenship and that it is an impossible fight to engage with (which he admitted even recently when asked by Kelly about his past words in 2013, despite all his carefully worded rhetoric that suggested the exact opposite), and Cruz has described his wife Heidi as a "conservative", comparing her involvement in globalist groups with John Bolton to deflect criticism, despite the fact that she is an open borders proponent and a definite leftist. Why lie about that? Even Reagan had a liberal wife. Her involvement with Goldman Sachs is another huge red flag, and probably explains Cruz's position on illegals. It's good for the cheap labor folks if aliens are not deported.
And then we can even talk about Cruz and TPP, which opens up another whole big can of worms!
Oh, but I'll add this one last thing: he actually comes off fake. He talks like a well-rehearsed machine. Even a YouTuber who did an interview with him mentioned that, when the camera was off, he was an entirely different person than what we see when the camera is on. I think that's a pretty good image, really, of the problem with politicians in the first place.
You contradict yourself here, or are unclear in your reasoning: “He opposes “amnesty” but defines it exclusively and consistently as a “pathway to citizenship.” Cruz supports granting legal status to aliens while falsely promising that we can keep them as second class residents without ever giving them naturalization,”
Cruz has consistently argued for securing the border—through enforcement of current federal and state laws along with new stricter laws to be passed by Congress— and denying amnesty to current illegal residents. He has stated repeatedly, and for years, that there should be no pathway to naturalization and that the laws have to be enforced unilaterally and without prejudice.
Please also clarify how Mrs. Cruz is a “definite leftist”. They met while working on the Bush campaign and her work with Bolton should be an excellent bona fide for a conservative.
Cruz’s stance on TPP has been explained repeatedly. http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/06/12/cruz-tpa-doesnt-give-obama-more-power-sessions-on-not-accurate-on-tpp/
I’m sorry that Cruz comes off to YOU as fake. Thousands of others who have been to his rallies disagree with that assessment. However, since it is a subjective stance, I have no empirical data to argue the point.
I'll take Cruz's voting record as proof, thanks.