Holy Snit: Ted Cruz Calls President Obama ‘Faithless’

Texas Senator and Republican Presidential Frontrunning Possible Outlier Ted Cruz has taken criticizing President Obama for passing on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s funeral to a whole new level. Just a few months after claiming that he didn’t want to “speculate on the President’s faith,” Cruz has apparently now formed a judgement about that faith.

At a campaign stop in South Carolina Thursday, Cruz blasted a scattergun of criticism at Obama for missing the funeral (although he’s attending the wake), planning a trip to Cuba, and of course for being a Godless criminal who’s destroying America:

We’ve got 11 more months of watching damage to this country. From a lawless and faithless president who is eager to travel to Cuba, but is unwilling to show up at the funeral of Justice Antonin Scalia.

In September, after an attendee at a Donald Trump rally called Obama a Muslim, Cruz conspicuously refused to say whether President Obama is a Christian, despite the President’s constant and public demonstrations and professions of faith. A poll taken at that time, and several since, demonstrate that questioning the President’s faith is good politics for a Republican, a fact that has apparently not been lost on Cruz. With only a few days left to close an enormous polling gap with Trump and achieve some separation from Marco Rubio in South Carolina, there’s no telling how wild Cruz’s swings will get.

This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.

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