I agree. I have heard some say he would have made a horrible president. I have no way of knowing one way or another.
I do know that there is nothing in Patton’s biographies about him seeking to avoid military service. Quite the opposite, I hear. :-)
Cruz’s father went to Canada at the height of the Vietnam War in 1969 and returned just as it ended in 1975.
He was born to a foreigner NOT LOYAL to the USA.
But as a General, he definitely must have been who General Lucian Truscott had in mind when he spoke about the necessity for all commanders to have some "sonofabitch" in them.
(I admit one of my favorite anecdotes is about Ernest King, who was known to have a salty mouth: Someone once asked Admiral Ernest J. King if it was he who said, "When they get in trouble they send for the sonsabitches." He replied that he was not -- but that he would have said it if he had thought of it..."