Surrounded by throngs Monday at Liberty University, the largest Evangelical Christian university in the world, Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, as hard-right a Christian as they come, wrapped himself in the constitution, cloaked himself with the flag, and talked as if the Lord’s hands were on him as he did what none of the other dozen or so Republicans who aspire to run and win the presidency in 2016 have had the gumption to do so far.

Pacing around a platform today in Lynchburg at the university founded by the late American evangelical leader Jerry Falwell, Sen. Cruz, […]