Ted Cruz-Rand Paul competition could reshape Republican Party
Cruz is a Southern Baptist who has been an aficion of free market politics since high school.
His positions on issues of class war, money, and government power in connection with the economy are the radical ones you would expect.
He is an anti-abortion sociocon and strong ally of the Christian Right, and seems a strong Christian Zionist.
As regards political means he is a radical and was behind recent shutdowns, favoring steps and methods urged by conservative publicists like Will and Buchanan but that nearly everybody else, including most leading Republican office holders, feared would crush the economy and perhaps even send the world into deep depression.
His academic record shows he is quite bright and his educational path - the standard cursus honorem minus a stage in the military - displays his early emerging will to power.
Paul, a baptized Episcopalian, was trained as an MD and an Ophthalmologist and like Cruz he has been an aficion of laissez-faire since high school.
He has been politically active since that time, though clearly his educational choices were more influenced by his Dad's biography than by political aspirations.
Like Cruz, he is solidly pro-life.
Though not the globalist Cruz is, he is not so much a consistent isolationist or "Little America" man as he is a loose canon.
He appears not to be the Zionist Cruz is.
Both men are firm enemies of the achievements of over a century of Democratic and Republican progressivism, all the way back to McKinley.
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