Posted on 02/17/2013 6:52:48 AM PST by SMGFan
Liberals, the mainstream media, and establishment Republicans often reveal which conservatives they fear by their level of disdain and vitriol.
This week, they put their crosshairs on freshman Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a Tea Party conservative of Hispanic descent who undermines the mainstream media's ability to advance their false notion that being a minority and Tea Partier are mutually exclusive. He is a conservative who showed no desire to defer to the Senate's "courtly" ways, the preferences of the institution's old bulls.
The sinking ship that is the New York Times, the so-called paper of record, provided evidence of what it fears most in its Saturday edition: strong, distinct full-throated conservative voices from folks who ain't "country club," geriatric, and white. The Washington Post and Politico joined the times in assailing Cruz this week for similar reasons. The Times did a thorough review of the freshman senator's stunning seven-week run:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
He will suffer the same treatment from the MSM. It is not about what he says; it is about what he believes. As long as he continues to believe in conservative principles, they will go after him.
Not only were they throughout FDR’s cabinet and many cabinet offices below the Secretaries, but many of them were actively passing information to Soviet spies. Eleanor was a fellow-traveller.
Read “The Venona Secrets” for the full story. It is indeed frightening.
So the bottom line is that Ted Cruz *is* a U.S. citizen, and therefore eligible to run for President?
Not nit-picking here, I'm just trying to get it straight...
“Hispanics will start voting R when GOPe fields a charismatic Hispanic candidate.”
Nonsesnse. For one thing, hispanics of Mexican descent do not identify with hispanics of Cuban descent, so the race card would give Cruz and Rubio a slight edge in south Florida and that’s about it.
Yup. they sure do.
bump!
“For one thing, hispanics of Mexican descent do not identify with hispanics of Cuban descent, so the race card would give Cruz and Rubio a slight edge in south Florida and that’s about it.”
ssshh! You’re not supposed to tell all the secrets!
Godwin’s Law: as an argument grows longer and more heated, it becomes increasingly likely that somebody will bring up Adolf Hitler or the Nazis. When such an event occurs, the person guilty of invoking Godwin’s Law has effectively forfeited the argument. Violated most often by modern national socialists.
Godwin’s Law II (`Iron law’): under similar heated circumstances, again when the malfeasor arguendo has not a leg to stand upon, he/she/it will accuse the opponent a `McCarthyism’. Always broken by Democrats, liberals, newspapers, magazines, Leon Pitts, and other like-minded hysterical moonbats.
Is he a natural born citizen? I don't know. This would be for the courts to answer (or they can continue to evade the issue). I do believe that if Ted Cruz decided to run for President, he'd face no serious legal challenge in regards to his eligibility.
You are welcome to believe whatever you like. #30 is a fair summary of the existing state of the law. You can bet that if Cruz becomes a candidate, a much more effective attack will be made on his credentials than we have seen in connection with the current occupant of the White House.
Although I agree, it would be really surprising if the citizen issue had not been addressed by his political opponents because he has a fair number of them.
I like Cruz better than any of the alternatives and if this entire story is true, I view it as a disaster.
Cruz is a competent successful person who has a long established record of performance and production at whatever he has undertaken. He is the epitome of the kind of Conservative candidate who would get widespread support.
In order to resolve the citizen at birth question, you need to know the birth date; place and circumstances of birth; mother's age at the date of birth; mother's period of residence in the US; date the mother first became a resident of the US; father's citizenship.
So the bottom line is that Ted Cruz *is* a U.S. citizen, and therefore eligible to run for President?
Not nit-picking here, I'm just trying to get it straight...
Be good if he was--get someone to tell us how he complied with which citizenship at birth statute.
Addendum: See Orwell’s definition of “fascism”: http://orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc
Example: “This fascist cup of Starbucks coffee tastes like burned camel urine! And a fascist dromedary, at that.”
It is a start. So Cruz is not Mexican, but he is Hispanic.
We need all advantages. Cruz is a good start.
Now: Bring back US jobs also. That is a big thing. Jobs.
I remember hearing that blacks wouldn't vote for Obama because he didn't share in their history of slavery and discrimination. Yet they voted for him in droves.
Anyways, don't have to win all of them. Or even most of them. If someone like Rubio or Cruz could pull in a mere 25-30% of Hispanic voters (the same as G.W. Bush did, IIRC) this would probably be enough to swing the election. It's losing 90+% of every non-white demographic that's killing us electorally.
I have the Venona Secrets and the first time I read it, I was stunned how the press, for years, has been protecting the communists foothold in this country.
The question is did his father naturalize to become a U.S. citizen before Ted was born? If not, he is not a natural born Citizen eligible for Article 2 Section 1.
The only way he can be declared a Citizen is because it was passed through the blood of his parent's Citizenship.
Ergo, obammie is a dual Citizen, not NBC.
Yeah, right. Exactly as much as John McCain is Panamanian born.
The standard phrase is "Advise and Consent". Unless the President is Republican, of course, in which case Democrats are perfectly within their rights to obfuscate, smear and lie to sink nominations.
Is he American?
His mother, Eleanor Darragh, was born in Delaware of Irish and Italian descent. She married Rafael Cruz, a Cuban, who immigrated to the US in 1957 and graduated from the U of T in 1961. Ted was born in Calgary in 1970, where his parents were working in the oil business. They moved back to Houston when Ted was four. Therefore, he is not Canadian-born, but, rather, born in Canada.
By virtue of his parentage, Ted Cruz is a natural born citizen, being entitled to US citizenship by birth via at least his mother (I don't know if his father was naturalized).
“Advise and Consent” - thank you for the correct phrase. Notice the Constitution does not say “Rubberstamp”. According to all the pundits and Lindsey Graham et al, it sure sounded like a Rubberstamp to me; they just wanted to play politics with the nomination process for a bit.
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