[GregNH]

by electing Ted, you legitimize Obama.

Exactly. And have you noticed that the MSM welcomes a Cruz run and have for a while. I wrote this in the Summer of 2013 in an The problem with now allowing a GOP ineligible candidate is that AII S1 C5 is forever gone. Notice without even hinting he was running the libs marched out to declare Cruz eligible. They don't care if he is running or not they just want to legitimize Obama's presidency.
The only hope we have in preserving the Constitution is to have a successful challenge to the term of art "natural born Citizen" while Obama is still in office. I wrote this in the summer of 2013 in this NBC thread:

The problem with now allowing a GOP ineligible candidate is that AII S1 C5 is forever gone. Notice without even hinting he was running the libs marched out to declare Cruz eligible. They don't care if he is running or not they just want to legitimize Obama's presidency.

The only hope we have in preserving the Constitution is to have a successful challenge to the term of art "natural born Citizen" while Obama is still in office.

Even today the MSM is in line with him being qualified. If not for Trump we would not be discussing this. In my heart of hearts I want the gavel to declare Zippo to not be a NBC, I am sure we will ever see that. But what really concerns me is that who else now "gets in" in the future as POTUS? Would Cruz be a good president? Yup. But remember Obama "got in."

[Duchess47]

You are and were so correct. I feel like part of the marketing of Cruz for President is with this end in mind.

[GregNH]

PS: And this is who "got in" in 2008...

The ‘Obama is a Muslim’ conspiracy theory is still reverberating in the Middle East

[LucyT]

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Back to the thread.

by electing Ted, you legitimize Obama.

Ping to # 170 , and to comments after the ping yesterday. Don't worry if you can't keep up. Nor can I; information overload.

NB: Heidi Cruz helped prepare, and endorses a form of "governance" inconsistent with our form of government.

http://i.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/NorthAmerica_TF_final.pdf

[Albion Wilde]

The only hope we have in preserving the Constitution is to have a successful challenge to the term of art "natural born Citizen" while Obama is still in office.

You are correct. Interparty actions have equal but opposite reactions.

For instance; when the GOP allowed the special prosecutor and the media to focus the Bill Clinton impeachment investigation on his sex life instead of his chief executive law-breaking, they squandered any possible GOP impeachment power for a century (assuming survival of the US).

Now, if they hypocritically back Cruz without settling this matter, there will be no going back.

It's been hard for me to realize that this talented Senator may have let his wealthy connections and his ambition push him into this corner; but everybody's human. I so wish he had followed his own original instincts and backed the winner in the polls and likely nominee so he could become AG or judge of the SCOTUS. Then the issue may have lay dormant until he could fix it.