Exactly. And as several commenters on The Blaze have pointed out, he has yet to speak an original idea. Teddy boy, if you have any, now would be a good time to lay them on the table.

Why did Dad leave Cuba if he was a communist? If Jesus convinced him to do that, maybe He did some good after all.

Running a life, or a country, on blind faith is simply sidestepping objective rationality. That's a disease which afflicts most of humanity. But it's "good PR"!

How much does it cost to get into Cruz's paradise?

Very good, Ted. An entirely logical beginning - let's see how you develop this.

You see: peterchunt and I (and others) would vote for him based on his actual agenda; most people vote based on emotion. Therefore, the segment of the population he needs to 'win' is the emotionally connected segment, not the rationally analytical portion of the country. So this is possibly a canny beginning to a successful campaign:
You come out with a strong emotional appeal to acquire the support of the Christian community, and then you propose conservative financial and political policies to be the viable alternative to Hillary for the non-religious conservatives. OK, this does meant that you probably have to be anti-abortion...the Christian community will not tolerate any other stance. I can live with that for a few years if it means getting rid of the EPA (as 'too being expensive to maintain'), Common Core, HIPAA, ACA, Article 21, etc.

Jan, willing to segue on intersection between anti and pro abortion policies

For all the elements of his better side embracing Constitutional principles, he is going to give a lot people the creeps acting like an evangelist and improperly tying the two together.

He is running for President of the United States, not exercising freedom of speech to promote a religion. He doesn't just happen to have nominal religious leanings, he is militantly promoting a fanatical religion. That does not belong in a secular country (not that it belongs anywhere) and will only be destructive.

Unfortunately his religious fervor _is_ part of his ideas. It is incompatible with rational thought and undermines whatever else better he may be. By loudly and publicly tying the individualist, Constitutional right to religion he also undermining the kind of intellectual advances in cultural reform that are necessary, setting up the usual false alternative of religion versus the left presenting itself as reason and practicality for dealing with real world problems.

80% of voters may be nominally Christians, but they are for the most part normal, secular people trying to live their lives here on earth in a secular country, not obsessed with religious evangelism. Cruz's wild-eyed preacher persona is going to turn a lot of them away. Few voters want someone who comes across as a fanatic of any kind. He may be appealing to the evangelicals, but that's it..

I always get the creeps from him.

Too be honest I don’t give a damn about his religious crusade. What I do care about are what are his ideas, his program for dealing with the serious problems facing America, how will he work with those who may not support everything he is pushing in enacting those programs (legally and constitutionally). A lot of the things that candidates say are politically motivated, so lets study the issues, not the lofty sound bites. I’m not religious or anti-religious; religion is just something I rarely think about, but I do recognize that 80% of Americans are Christians, so it will be used for political purposes.

I'm out

here's the story. parents were having trouble-dad bolts. he somehow gets jesus and is reborn and goes back to family. tehy all convert and stay together.

That's definitely the $64 billion question.
Or are we not supposed to ask?

Um...so his Dad would have bolted and not hung around and his mother would have been a single mom if not for Jesus Christ? How so?

omg...I'm stealing that... lol

Jesus, you nailed it ;^)

gods' hairy balls! fail. epic.