I think Cruz brings out the more “religious” crowd.
I don’t have near as much room for “religion” as I used to. “Religion” is how man tries to fumble his way towards God. Faith is how man says Yes when God approaches. It FINALLY got through my THICK HEAD that it is better to call to the Shepherd and have Him find ME, than it is to try to figure out where the Shepherd went. Because what I might think to be the latter might turn out (and in many cases has turned out) to be a wolf.
Cruz, I believe to my sadness, is more religion than faith in his approach.
Cruz ‘gets’ Putin’s broader agenda/intentions in the Middle East. Trump, at best!, is dangerously naive and profoundly ignorant on the subject of Russia and their expansionist agenda. And that “at best” is not what I think is going on. Russia is clearly on the move, in large part thanks to the current saboteur-in-chief Obama, in basically restoring the Soviet Union, or something similar to it. The last thing we need is another clown (and/or saboteur) in the White House.