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1) I honestly have always viewed the duel citizen thing as irrelevant so I have never studied that issue.

2) On the loans, I think it was an honest mistake by his campaign - if he was wanting to hide the loans he wouldn’t have reported them on his Senate Report Form which was submitted during the election.

3) My study of the Constitution leads me to believe that Cruz is a natural born citizen since his mother was a U.S. citizen. Most legal scholars would agree with Cruz. It is possible that a court somewhere could rule the other way but the preponderance of the law and precedent is on Cruz’s side.

4) Virtually every campaign begs for money. I have had Rand Paul’s campaign, Ben Carson’s campaign, and I think even Jeb’s campaign all send me unsolicited fundraising letters. I see no moral issue here.

Honestly, their are only two small problems I have with Cruz.

1) Was his initial support for the TPA. I understand his thinking that this was uncontroversial and would be a big help once he was president. However, given that Obama was still President for one year and is going to try and force the TPP through Cruz probably would have been wiser to oppose TPA until Obama left office.

2) Was Cruz’s decision to ultimately join the rest of the Senate Republicans (with the sole exception of Tom Cotton) and vote in favor of the Corker Bill. Cruz’s strategy was to try and do everything he could to delay Obama’s release of the 100 plus billion dollars in frozen assets to the Iranians. Obama was saying that he would completely ignore Congress and do it on his own which would have made it go through faster. So, Cruz tried to amend the Corker bill to make it have more teeth and when that failed he decided to support it because it would at least require Obama to submit the plan to Congress and do nothing while it was being debated. However, I think that it still was a mistake since it was a strategy that could not ultimately stop Obama. That said there really was no good strategy that Cruz could follow unless the entire Republican Senate Caucus was willing to join him in playing hardball with the Obama administration by withholding funds and bringing a lawsuit.