[Added 4/14/2016] I think that of all the five current Democratic and Republican candidates, Ted Cruz would do the most harm if elected. The reason is that he says what he means, and means what he says. When he speaks of carpet-bombing and torture, it is not hyperbole. He should be taken literally.

Ted Cruz
The post-Reagan Republican Party has been supported by three pillars—(1) the so-called neo-conservatives who think there is a military solution to all problems, (2) the so-called neo-liberals, who think there is a corporate solution to all problems, and (3) the so-called religious right, who think there is a Biblical solution to all problems.
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is a hard-line supporter of all three, but his championship of the religious right is what is most politically significant, both for him and for religious conservatives.
The reason is that the interests of military contractors and Wall Street bankers are well-represented in both parties, but fundamental Christian preachers are represented only in the Republican Party and, from their standpoint, not too well. Unlike the military and high finance, they are not part of the so-called “deep state“.
Ted Cruz’s platform on his web site gives more information about the specifics of where he stands than that of any of the other candidates. It shows that he has obviously given a lot of thought not just to what he believes, but how he would accomplish it.
That makes him a more formidable candidate than Donald Trump, who answers questions about policy as if he were thinking about the issues for the very first time.
I have respect Cruz as a intelligent and committed ideological warrior. But adoption of his political program would mean perpetual quagmire war, upward redistribution of wealth and a vain and divisive attempt to enforce the morality of an earlier America.
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