re: #85 withak

Sure, but their views aren’t mainstream GOP thought.

And, IMHO, neither has a chance at a nomination.

Edit: Not sure why this deserves a downding.

Depends on how you define the term mainstream.

Huckabee was a Governor and won 8 state primaries in 2008. Cruz won a US Senate seat in a landslide in the nation’s second most populous state. (That’s hardly fringe territory.)

Throw in former Sen. Santorum, former Gov. Perry and current Gov. Jindal, all of whom also have strong theocratic tendencies, and you’ve got one-third of the giant gop field made up of wanna be Clerics-in-Chief.

Maybe this hyper-religiosity isn’t mainstream gop thought to you. But it’s clearly mainstream gop thought in the south (and some of the midwest), the places which happen to be gop strongholds. So there’s a very strong case to be made that this is indeed mainstream gop thinking today. The gop of 2015 is much different than the gop of 1965.