Good God, even the limitlessly demagogic and heretofore endlessly pandering Christianist Ted Cruz disagrees with Ben Carson:
You know, the Constitution specifies there shall be no religious test for public office, and I am a constitutionalist.
This has now, in the main, become as much of a mathematical question as it is one of politics. Precisely into how many pieces can a party fracture before utter disintegration takes place?
I suppose we could ask the Whigs.
And yet the fundamental paradox remains: Most of these clowns essentially agree with one another.
And so it is that this seems less like presidential than university politics, in which the smaller the internal disagreements, the more vicious the battles.