Horror novelist Stephen King is apparently scared by the candidacy of Ted Cruz. The author of truly terrifying books like The Shining and Carrie told The Daily Beast's Marlow Stern he finds Cruz to be “very scary” because the conservative Texas senator is “a fundamentalist Christian” and his election would be “the analog of an Imam.”
The following is the relevant excerpt from the February 15 The Daily Beast interview:
He’s [Ted Cruz] very scary. I actually think Trump, in the end, would be more electable than Cruz because Cruz is a fundamentalist Christian and it would almost be like electing the analog of an Imam—someone whose first guiding principle would be the scripture rather than the Constitution. But I don’t think he could get elected. And, even if he was able to govern without blowing up the world, could we look at a guy who resembles a cable game show host for four years? He has that awful plastered-down hair and everything.
(H/T Washington Examiner’s Jessica Chasmar)
