"Were it not for the transformative love of Jesus Christ, I would have been raised by a single mom without my father in the house. God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation. Over and over again when we faced impossible odds, the American people rose to the challenge. This is our fight, and that is why I'm running for president of the United States."Unfortunately for Cruz, in conservative circles filial piety isn't an advantage, but an albatross. After all, the right wing made Barack Obama's Kenyan father—a man he hardly knew—the key to understanding "The Roots of Obama's Rage." But if the likes of Dinesh D'Souza and Newt Gingrich are going to claim Obama's supposed "inherited rage" and "anti-colonial worldview" were handed down by Obama senior, Rafael Cruz represents a huge problem. The former Castro ally turned immigrant and Born-Again Christian has all the zealotry of the convert combined with a zero-sum, us-versus-them Cold War mentality. For father and son, that sound and fury signifies something, none of it good for wide swaths of the American population.
As it turns out, the preaching of Rafael Cruz provides a window into the soul of his son. In July 2013, CBN host David Brody asked Rafael about the meteoric rise of his son, suggesting it was "a thing of God." The elder Cruz agreed, explaining that his Ted was indeed the anointed one:
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