Cruz? Please. It would like 1984 all over again, except in the blue column.
Yeah, I like Mitt, I think he'd be an excellent manager of the country. Having said that, I just don't see him being able to win. Latino's already have shown they won't vote for him, so at best he'd improve in that category on the margins. Plus, there is a small yet decisive and loud group of right wingers that won't go out and vote for him. Let's face it, you gotta have an overwhelming segment of the base voters to turn out to win.
Could he improve with "moderate" voters? Possibly, but it's already been reported that Mitt would plan on running to the right of Bush, which of course would hurt in the general elections.
Jeb Bush, I like. Will appeal to more latino's than any other politician from the right aside from Rubio, but the anti immigration reform base voters hate it and at the end of the day will be a wash. But I do like problem solvers and he certainly fits the bill.
The guy who in my view has a shot at getting the most voters from the entire right spectrum is Scott Walker. I can certainly see him appealing to the "establishment" types, simply because he is another problem solver who gets things done (unlike Cruz the clown) and I also see him appealing to right wingers. He has a conservative record and his epic defeat of the unions will win him a lot of kudos in the primaries. Plus, evangelicals will like him as well as he has a good record with them, yet he has an affable personality that even though he has these values that have been ostracized by the media and younger voters, he doesn't where these values on a sleeve and he's politically smart enough to not say Akin-Murdoch like comments.
Plus he comes from a middle class family, which is a positive as well.