It is a cheap campaign trick. Donnie is the one losing cred. Good grief.
Wow, demanding that we follow our Constitution as written is now a “cheap campaign trick”.
If you want to know why the founders but the natural born citizen (NBC) clause into our constitution, look no further than the current administration. We would be wise to follow our constitution, and Cruz is not a natural born citizen. In fact up until 1934 Cruz would have even been considered a citizen of the USA. How can someone naturalized by a 1934 law be a NBC. It is a absurd proposition.
So far, no serious challenge to these ...
Quick Notes on Eligibility
[I’m no lawyer, but even lawyers have trouble with this — it’s a specialty topic.]
Two Ways of Looking at This
One Way: Original intent. No matter what original intent you look at, Cruz is not eligible.
— Some say ‘must have mother and father — US citizens when overseas.
— Some say ‘must at least have US father when overseas’
— Some insist you must be born in the US.
Other Way: Women Equal.
Now for the ‘women equal’ argument.
As you know, women are treated as equally as possible in the courts these days. That’s what Cruz is banking on — why can’t a mother alone make him qualify?
— But that is not original intent. So while it wins in court, it fails to end the controversy.
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One counter-point to address ...
Even if courts invoke the 14th Amendment, that was debunked by Greetings Puny Humans, not a genuine intepretation:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3384380/posts?page=68#68
That’s it basically.
Ideally, we are best off to have someone absolutely rock-solid as ‘natural born’ by all major definitions.
The only reason we respect Cruz’ argument at all is because he’s such an awsome patriot-scholar in every other respect. Even his arch-enemy Tribe makes that clear. But that only adds to the confusion.
The cage fight continues while Senate Majority-Traitor McConman laughs at the hopelessly mired Tea Party supporters of Cruz.
Original intent v. Cruz and ‘equality of women’.
It’s a no-win either way for conservatives.
The judges will rule on behalf of ‘equality of women’, and then the democrats will quote Tribe and anyone else who knows how to figure out original intent. College radicals and the New Black Panthers will suddenly become the ‘defenders of the constitution’.
A divided nation. Not good.
If Cruz weren’t such a great candidate, I’d have thrown him under the bus on this utterly and without compassion.
As it is?
I would support an amendment to make such a fine patriot eligibible.
FRegards ....
It is a cheap campaign trick. Donnie is the one losing cred. Good grief.
You are correct, except for the name. Replace the name “Donnie” with “Ted”...