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Ted Cruz is going to New Hampshire. Will they like him?
Washington Post ^ | August 23 at 6:30 am | Chris Cillizza and Sean Sullivan

Posted on 08/25/2013 7:24:55 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

Edited on 08/25/2013 7:26:09 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) is the hottest commodity in Republican politics these days, winning rave reviews everywhere he goes on the I

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Hampshire; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cruz; cruz2016; naturalborncanadian; naturalborncitizen; naturalborncuban; naturalbornsubject; newhampshire; tedcruz; texas
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To: Jim Robinson

Buuuummp!


121 posted on 08/26/2013 3:58:31 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs stay silent.)
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To: Jim Robinson

I completely agree with you Jim. I am ready to support Cruz!


122 posted on 08/26/2013 4:06:46 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: DiogenesLamp
Well, I'm sure there are good electors and there are better electors. No doubt about that.

However, I am sure that I trust the Founders and the Founders trusted the electors.

123 posted on 08/26/2013 4:07:00 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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124 posted on 08/26/2013 4:10:08 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: RedMDer; Jim Robinson

Well if Sarah likes Him...
125 posted on 08/26/2013 4:13:51 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. This is not the post you are looking for ....move along now....)
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To: Jim Robinson
If Cruz decides to run and he’s the strongest conservative running, I’ll support him to the hilt!! And I’ll bet most of the tea party patriots will too!!

BTTT!

126 posted on 08/26/2013 4:14:36 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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To: Jim Robinson; DiogenesLamp

If Cruz runs, FR is Cruz Country!!

Go, Cruz, GO!!

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YOU BETCHA and AMEN, Jim!


127 posted on 08/26/2013 4:15:12 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: moose07

Palin or Cruz for me.
Can’t think of anyone else and I’ve already said this several times.


128 posted on 08/26/2013 4:16:42 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Jeff Winston
He wasn't talking about any definition of citizenship. That's obvious to anyone who carefully reads the case.

This is another example of that willful lying you are so famous for. When he makes THAT EXPLICIT VATTEL QUOTE, HE IS TALKING ABOUT CITIZENSHIP.

Now of course *YOU* allege the case is not about citizenship, but let's see what Justice Bushrod Washington has to say what the case is regarding.

Justice Bushrod Washington:

"The claims of Maitland, McGregor and Jones are resisted in toto upon an objection to the national character of the claimants."

...

There being no dispute as to the facts upon which the domicile of these claimants is asserted, the questions of law alone remain to be considered. They are two -- first, by what means and to what extent a national character may be impressed upon a person different from that which permanent allegiance gives him, and secondly, what are the legal consequences to which this acquired character may expose him in the event of a war taking place between the country of his residence and that of his birth or in which he had been naturalized?

Yeah, you're wrong about that too. The entire case was about citizenship.

129 posted on 08/26/2013 4:39:09 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: Tau Food
Listen, at first blush it seems like a rather ambitious move for a country like Canada to attempt to draft the president of the United States. But, I have to confess that I have never given much thought to that possibility.

Do you really think strawman mockery is an effective tactic? Obviously no Foreign country would attempt to draft someone AFTER they became President, but that is not the point. The point is that they COULD be drafted and made to fight against us prior to the fact.

If someone with Dual citizenship was drafted by a foreign Nation, and fought against us, would they be guilty of treason for fighting us? Would they be guilty of Treason if they didn't? Yeah, that body of law is clear as mud.

HOWEVER, someone recently turned me on to this treatise on The Law of Nations. It's by a Swiss guy named Vattel who wrote it in French.

A lot of people attempt to mock the fact that Vattel was Swiss, and that he wrote "Droit des Gens" in French.

Two points.

1. Switzerland was the only REPUBLIC in the world at that time, and Ideas for governing a Republic were not likely to come from a land ruled by a Monarchy.

2. The international language of Diplomacy was French. If you intended a large circulation of your ideas among the movers and shakers of other nations, it was compulsory that you write them in French.

130 posted on 08/26/2013 4:49:19 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: Jeff Winston

Why do we put up with you Jeff? You accuse others of what you routinely do.

You have repeatedly exaggerated the statements of Marshall, Story and Kent regarding Bayard. You overstate their endorsement and have them practically co-authors when in fact they approved the ordering of the chapters.

We repeatedly suffer your obnoxious language. And now because you’re frustrated you run to the website owner whining like some little tattle-tale? It’s laughable. Have you never learned to disagree without being disagreeable?


131 posted on 08/26/2013 4:49:25 PM PDT by Ray76 (Common sense immigration reform: Enforce Existing Law)
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To: Tau Food

I think modern law needs to be reevaluated based on scientific advancement that makes paternity certain. It is completely unfair and unnatural to make a man support another man’s children while the actual father is not required to contribute anything.


132 posted on 08/26/2013 4:51:03 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: Nero Germanicus
Yes, you’ve made your position clear.

Nature made my position clear. I merely articulated it.

133 posted on 08/26/2013 4:52:39 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: Jeff Winston
This guy is just a flat-out, bald-faced liar.

No Jeff, you have been proven to be a bald faced liar. You lied about Bingham, you lied about Bayard, you lied about Thomas Jefferson being a French citizen, and you CONSTANTLY LIE ABOUT HAVING ALL THE AUTHORITIES ON YOUR SIDE.

His lies have been factually demonstrated and proven to be false again and again and again.

And you keep CLAIMING that you disproved something, when in fact it is just the echo chamber of your hollow head resonating with your own delusions.

Why do we have to keep putting up with him here at FreeRepublic?

"Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"

You just don't like being called out on the lies you tell. You just don't like having someone correcting all the misdirection you constantly post. You just want someone to silence your critics so you alone can proclaim what you want people to believe.

The bigger question is why we would want someone like YOU on Free Republic.

134 posted on 08/26/2013 4:59:32 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: Jim Robinson
If Cruz decides to run and he’s the strongest conservative running, I’ll support him to the hilt!! And I’ll bet most of the tea party patriots will too!!

I Support Cruz. I like him better than any other potential candidate I see out there. If the Democrats don't have to follow the rules, then we don't either.

To hell with Tokyo Rove, the GOP-e, Chis Kristy, Jeb Bush or any other steenking RINO!!

Amen! I'm sick of the Rino Establishment, especially Rove! He's done enough damage. Time for him to fade into obscurity.

135 posted on 08/26/2013 5:03:40 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: Tau Food
However, I am sure that I trust the Founders and the Founders trusted the electors.

I trust that the founders created the best system of governance that the world has ever seen. But trust modern day electors? Not so much.

136 posted on 08/26/2013 5:04:57 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: onyx; Jim Robinson
If Cruz runs, FR is Cruz Country!!

Go, Cruz, GO!!

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YOU BETCHA and AMEN, Jim!

Cruz is the best man I see on the Horizon. As far as i'm concerned, he's more American than the Jack@$$ we have running things now. As Lincoln said of Grant. "I can't spare this man... He fights."

137 posted on 08/26/2013 5:07:49 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: Jim Robinson

He would be such an exciting AND conservative choice for us! And would fight FOR America!


138 posted on 08/26/2013 5:10:25 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL of you heroes!)
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To: onyx
Palin or Cruz for me. Can’t think of anyone else and I’ve already said this several times.

Look how far we have fallen as a country when out of a population of 300 million we only have two people who have the qualities we need to lead the nation.

How did we get here? What Cruz and Palin believe used to be what all of America believed.

We have lost our way.

139 posted on 08/26/2013 5:14:45 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: DiogenesLamp
I just think that if some foreign government unilaterally chose for any reason and without my request to view me as one of its citizens i would feel no obligation to respond to tax bills that it might send to me or to respond to any request that it might make for me to serve in its military. I am a citizen of the United States. I have no control over what the government of Canada does or says. I cannot stop the government of Canada from viewing me as a citizen of Canada if that government really wants to view me that way.

And, if Mexico chooses to not view me as a citizen of Mexico, that's okay, too. I am a citizen of the United States and have never asked Canada or Mexico to view me as a citizen. How those two governments choose to view individuals in this world is beyond my control.

I don't really care if Canada chooses to view Ted Cruz as a citizen or if Mexico chooses not to view Ted Cruz as a citizen. I am not going to let either of those governments manipulate my electoral choices or my vote by anything that those governments do or don't do.

Now, if Ted Cruz is seen to embrace Canadian citizenship (thereby making the relationship a bilateral one) or if Ted Cruz is found to be applying for Mexican citizenship, then either of those facts would probably be deal-breakers for most voters. But that's not what's happening here.

Our nation's eligibility rules and our nation's pool of eligible candidates must be controlled by our nation and by our nation alone. What other nations do or don't do cannot be a relevant factor.

Canada has extended to Cruz a right to citizenship. Unless Cruz responds to that request by accepting or embracing that offer, Canada has no right to draft Cruz or to tax Cruz or to render Cruz ineligible to be our president. He's an American!

140 posted on 08/26/2013 5:16:20 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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