Posted on 01/15/2016 6:55:13 AM PST by sunrise_sunset
"Republican voters nearly mirror independents and the broader electorate in their belief that Cruz cannot hold the White House, with 27 percent of all voters and 28 percent of independents responding he should be disqualified." --- "Only 47 percent of all voters surveyed responded that they thought Cruz is qualified to be president with regard to his citizenship, with 26 percent saying they were not sure."
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It’s a non-issue. Those same independents have no problem with Obama’s hidden birth and school records.
Not in my book it isn’t. Hussein Obama settled that.
Among All Voters
Is Ted Cruz Qualified to be President with Respect to His Natural Born Citizenship ?
47% Qualified
27% Unqualified
26% Unsure
Cruz can’t win a general election with these numbers.
Well, it’s just too bad for them that we are a nation of LAWS, not of opinion polls...
[Not in my book it isn’t. Hussein Obama settled that.]
Unfortunately 53% aren’t reading the same book as you.
And just b/c Obama was able to get away with it doesn’t mean people will still accept it.
“Not in my book it isn’t. Hussein Obama settled that.”
Different situations. Obama was born in Hawaii. He is a citizen. Even if he was born in Kenya, his mother was an American. Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother. He is American.
Settled.
Blame Donald Trump for making noise about it....
“...his mother was an American”
And that’s the rub, that was/is in dispute.
Cruz should have hit this straight on from day one.
He did not.
He has birth certificate that shows that, yes. There are differences in the requirements at the time of HER eligibility as to age (a minor at his birth), length of time back in the US, etc. as to being able to convey citizenship to her offspring.
Regardless, my position is that if this Muslim is ‘qualified’, then Cruz is too.
Well now.
It’s one thing for a quarter of your party to not vote for you in the primary. That can be overcome.
It’s quite another for this “quarter” to be spread evenly over the whole electorate. Especially when a good chunk of it is held by genuine constitutionalists within your own party, thus cutting out your own base of support.
If Cruz doesn’t get this cleared up post haste, then he needs to lose. As it presently stands, he’d be a disaster in the general election.
you realize you just contradicted yourself don’t you?
Rightly or wrongly this is what most people believe. I firmly believe it is why John McCain would not bring up the "Natural born citizen" issue against Barack Obama. The public would see him as having a bigger problem than Barack Obama.
It will all boil down to how Cruz and Trump shake out against each other. The rest, regardless of which one, will work itself out. I’m not really concerned about Cruz’ eligibility at this point.
By what definition,Trump and the rest are saying you have to be born on American soil and you are then a Natural born citizen,but they neglect to say both parents have to be American citizens,Trumps Mother was not and both of Rubios were not as well as Bobby Jindals.
So Trump,Cruz, Rubio get out and leave old Jeb
ROFL! OH MY SIDES! We are most certainly NOT a nation of laws, the election of Barack Hussein Obama saw to that!
Correction. He has a Hawaiian birth record. Circumstantial evidence makes it appear more likely he was born either in Washington State, or Canada.
Hawaii will give birth certificates to the children of Hawaiian residents whether they were actually born in Hawaii or not.
Nobody doubts Cruz is an American citizen. That is not the issue here.
What is in doubt is whether he is a "natural born" citizen, instead of a "naturalized" citizen from birth. Statutorily, the two ARE different concepts.
"Natural born" citizenry seems, based on natural and English common law, to derive either from being born on the soil of a nation (jus soli) or from having TWO parents who are American citizens (or, as for the vast majority of us - both).
The problem for Cruz is that if your citizenship status has to be defined by an act of Congress, then it falls under the classification of being "naturalISED" rather than natural, because Congress is only empowered to make uniform rules of naturalisation. Cruz's citizenship doesn't seem to rise to the level of being "natural born."
Some try to appeal to the Naturalisation Act of 1790 (because it shows what the founding generation "meant" by the term) with its statement about child born across the sea to American citizen parents being "considered as natural born." The problem with this argument is that it refers to "parents" not to one "parent." It's not actually apparent that the Founding generation who wrote that law intended only one parent to be able to transmit natural born citizenship.
They’ll have to wait to not vote for him after he wins he nomination.
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