Cruz will lose. Cruz is an ideologically pure ideologue, which is great - for people like us. He connects well with such people. But outside of the base he does not connect well. In the generals if Hillary can turn out swathes of low information voters like Obama did, Cruz will get crushed.
Which Founding Father? Probably a combination of James Madison and James Wilson.
Call me an idiot but I read a lot of biographies and Ted Cruz has more in common with them than he does with almost anyone in Congress.
That is why he appears to be such an anomaly.
If Ted Cruz cannot connect with people today then we have lost more than we know.