“Somebody find the fatted calf and roast it up!”
The prodigal son was repentant, not calculating.
Do we know that? Either the prodigal son or Sen. Cruz? If I recall the parable correctly, the motivating factor for the prodigal son was starvation. He calculated that the least of his father’s servants was eating better than pigs.
It doesn’t really matter in any case. What matters right now is beating hitlery.