Posted on 01/08/2016 12:59:43 PM PST by Isara
The Arizona senator says he’s just asking questions.
Arizona Sen. John McCain on Thursday walked back comments that he made earlier in the week when he said he wasn't sure if Canadian-born Ted Cruz is eligible to be president and that the Supreme Court may have to make the decision.
In a radio appearance on the Michael Medved Show, McCain said that he assumes the Texas senator is eligible to run for president until proven otherwise.
"This is something constitutional scholars should make a decision on. I assume that he is eligible, that's my assumption, and I will continue to assume that until it is contradicted," McCain said. "But it needs to be looked at, as every aspect of anyone who wants to be the president of the United States should be quote 'looked at,' and I don't see anything wrong with that. Should you and I say it shouldn't be looked at?"
Cruz's mother was an American citizen living in Canada at the time of Cruz's birth. The issue of Cruz's eligibility was raised by real estate mogul Donald Trump, who told the Washington Post that Cruz's Canadian birth would be a "big problem" for the Republican Party. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday added that he was not sure if Cruz was eligible to be president of the United States either. (Though both men previously had said it was not an issue.) McCain himself added "I don't know" if Cruz's eligible in an earlier radio interview.
On Thursday, speaking with Medved, McCain categorized himself as merely asking questions.
"I do not know frankly whether, Sen. Cruz, where he falls in this scenario of this Constitution of the United States," McCain said. "But every aspect of a candidate needs to be looked at. I'm not saying, drawing any conclusions, or even an inference, but we have to look at all aspects of a candidates background, and this is just something I think needs to be looked at. I would assume that Sen. Cruz himself has looked into this if decided to run and has determined and has information that would put any question aside. The question has been raised, needs to be looked at. That's all."
WHY oh why do they keep electing McCain?
Juan is ineligible to continue in the US Senate....
In other words its not hurting Cruz and may indeed be helping him.
Not so long ago, and still in a few countries, he would just disappear. But the lapdog media always has lots of biscuits to toss out there and see who bites.
That probably took a year off his life.
What happened to McCain today that he suddenly thinks his opinion is relevant?
Uniparty command gave him a talking to.
>>McCain: This is something constitutional scholars should make a decision on.<<
Like Obama, perhaps? Or maybe someone who’s argued nine times in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, and arguing many of those cases on constitutional grounds? That would be constitutional scholar Ted Cruz.
This is all so silly.
Shut up Johnny. You don’t know what you “assume”.
Ted Cruz blew the whistle on Cruz by stating he’s supporting Rubio - neither of whose parents were Americans when he was born here - can we say “dreamer” or “anchor baby???”
“hat happened to McCain today that he suddenly thinks his opinion is relevant?”
Suddenly?????????????
Were the subject Linda Graham, NOT Ted Cruz, McCain would have blown his stack long ago!
He realized Cruz might lose early and, in retaliation, help his primary opponent to defeat him in his bid for re-election, thereby providing yet another example of the truth of Enoch Powell's aphorism, that "All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure".
Maybe someone told him that he would no longer be in the running to be appointed ambassador to Mexico unless he walked things back . . .
Exactly.
GOP-E is down to using Cruz to take down Trump...followed by taking down Cruz, who will be much easier to destroy than Trump.
Ya, Kelli Ward smacked McCain pretty hard on twitter. McCain is nervous.
Thi sounds just like Hillary’s remark four years ago, when asked about Obama’s eligibility: “He’s eligible; as far as I know.” She qualified.
This is a very perceptive remark. It makes a lot of sense for those who deal in triangulation on a daily basis.
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