Cruz’s answer was brilliant. It made Kelly look stupid for asking, imo.
I thought the best answer would have been:
“Your question is offensive. No, God doesn’t send me a ‘Honey Do’ list each morning. I claim to be a Christian, not a prophet or apostle. I’m not running for Chief Pastor, either. But it is sad and pathetic that you seem to assume religious people believe God sends them emails each morning with a list of instructions! Your scorn and contempt, and your total misunderstanding of what it means to be a believer, are palpable and they disgust me.”
I think that Megyn Kelly did a favour to the candidates by asking them the question(s) they should have an easily ready response and by weeding out early those who have no reasonable response to a simple question that will be sure to come up in a more serious future debates in a more hostile environment and under tougher scrutiny.
If a candidate is unprepared to answer this and similar questions that come supposedly "from the left" (as it was characterized about 4 years ago about a question put to another putative GOP candidate in the primary) - then he/she doesn't know the answer and doesn't belong on a stage or ready to be a candidate.
Better to get these out early and for us to know who is viable, and for them to know what they can expect and be prepared.
Thank God for small favours.
Ted did a great job with the question, and I wouldn’t just blame Kelly; the three moderators were in meetings for days coming up with questions...I suspect Kelly may have, (probably) pushed the stupid war on women-Rosie O’Doughnut question, but from what was said for well over a week, the questions came from Fox internal collaboration.
I thought Cruz’s answer was very well done.
He has my vote, at this point.