If a candidate claims "God told me to run" or "God is on our side" ...

[NurseJackie]

... and if "God's support" is the cornerstone of the campaign, and mentioned in every stump speech; and then that candidate (or party) loses, how's it explained? What do the candidate's supporters think?

Did God change his mind? Was God playing a joke? Was the candidate lying?

Do they fear that they (as a group) fail God's test of faith and His call-to-action?

[JoePhilly]

1. God is a big kidder!

[NightWatcher]

2. If they believe it, it's a sign of mental illness.

Fortunately for most of them, they are just pandering to fools.

[The Wielding Truth]

3. The candidate is delusional. Sad, isn't it?

[redwitch]

4. Hey, God ain't no fool.

Too bad for Ted Cruz.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Is God going to kick in some cash to his preferred candidate?

Probably not considering the deity is always dead broke. Thus, "Pass the basket".

[NurseJackie]

12. You make an excellent point.

[FLPanhandle]

6. This guy explained it perfectly

This means that, to Ted, the use that his Lord picked out for him was to completely destroy the Republican Party as we know it while gettin’ dusted by a carnie-handed mango man.

Guys, stuff like that makes me wanna rethink my stance on God!

I mean, not really, on account of mah brain workin’, but still!

[NurseJackie]

11. "That's how boogedy-boogedy cray-zee the rest of the country thinks you are!"

That guy's a trip! Thanks for sharing it!

[Uben]

7. All the ones claiming God told them to run have quit already.

Says a lot about their faith, huh? LOL

[RufusTFirefly]

8. Welcome to the wonderful world of cognitive dissonance!

In the late 1950s social psychologist Leon Festinger followed around a doomsday cult led by Dorothy Martin. When the day of reckoning came and went without incident, Festinger was shocked to find that the fact that the world didn't end as predicted actually strengthened the resolve of Martin and her disciples.

Martin claimed that the world had been spared because of the "force of Good and light" that the group members had spread throughout the world. Rather than abandoning their discredited beliefs, group members adhered to them even more strongly and began proselytizing with fervor.

[malthaussen]

9. I have explained this many times...

... this god-thing told them to run, he never said doo-dad about winning. As for "God is on our side" and other such assertions, they are not to be construed as direct messages.

-- Mal

[Fumesucker]

10. The book of Job, they should read it and reflect upon it

God not only plays dice with the universe, He sometimes rigs the game.

[MADem]

13. Everyone who heard God tell them to run has dropped out!!

Guess they didn't hear the "NOT" word ....

Yo, Ben Carson/Marco Rubio/Ted Cruz/etc.....I'm telling you NOT to run....

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. There is no god. Period. Full stop. End of sentence. None, zip, zilch, zero, nada.

[whatthehey]

15. Hah but apologetics has this covered

It can't be God's fault. This is just the unworthy vessel who could not fulfill his responsibility to carry out God's plan and lacked sufficient faith to move the Almighty to intervene. Scan the Bible to see what happens when prophecy fails. It's always the human's fault, never the fault of the omniscient omnipotent chap whose idea it supposedly was.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. When do we start?

[GeorgeGist]

17. You're not serious ...

are you?

[rurallib]

18. even worse, they got beat out by a person that they claim is the last person

god would pick.
That one would have to hurt.

[alarimer]

19. If any candidate (either party) says that, I am automatically voting against them.

In fact, I would prefer it if they all shut up about how religious they are. For some, it comes off a completely phony. In any case, it is a major turnoff.

[Major Nikon]

20. It's all fun and games until god tells them to invade Iraq and over 100,000 people die

[FLPanhandle]

21. Cruz would have pushed the button to bring about the "end times"

He was that crazy

[Major Nikon]

22. I don't think Cruz is crazy or stupid

I've seen him away from the camera and he doesn't strike me as either. He's just a grifter that knows his constituency is crazy and stupid.