So I am now supposed to depart from rational analysis and debate about the relative qualities of candidates to defend my own sanity.
No thank you, I do not feel the need. I am quite content with my psychological condition. But I am very put off by cheap debating tricks.
But if you were actually engaged in "rational analysis," how, exactly, would you be able to declare that Ted Cruz is a man of convictions and virtue, when he's proven to be lying on national television to millions of people?