heck, no. heck, no. it s going to continue to cause internal ruptures. all of these things, you know, there are enough republicans who do want immigration reform, who do know that they re not probably going to defund obama care. but rather than reform obama care, rather than tweak it to make it workable, in their view, or at least to reach a compromise, they would rather kill it than reform it. and to reform is to as you say, katty, it s to fail the purity test. i don t think it s helpful in the long run and i don t think it s helpful in the short run, but it does get the base inspired and we ll see which of these candidates is most convincing. that s really what we re talking about. and it seems like what s old is new again, as kathleen points out, trying to redefine the republican party, the old standby is to delegitimatize the president. pete winter writes, what s troubling, because it s more revealing, is that senator cruz, rather than challenging the premise of his question,