Posted on 01/27/2016 8:22:34 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Trounced.. why not just say yugley trounced.. it would be just as true.
St. Paul: “I helped kill a guy named Stephen” (FLASHBACK)
St. Peter: “I denied Jesus Christ 3 times” (FLASHBACK)
No worries...I’m sure all the liberals on the USSC would agree he’s eligible.
You read him as I do. Talks the talk, sways the walk.
“I don’t think I’m all that conservative,” he said. “And it’s interesting. Reagan never once beat his chest and said ‘I’m the most conservative guy who ever lived.’ Reagan said, ‘I’m defending commonsense principles.’”
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This is why Cruz scares them most of all and the Uniparty is going all out to stop him because when not viewed through the liberal media filters, conservatism can’t be demonized as the other. People can see it is just normal and common sense and isn’t all that “conservative” as conservative is presented as some extreme, way out there evil thing.
I doubt he will even stay in the race until the end.
He will drop out as soon as he knows he can’t win and it is costing him too much.
http://www.constitution.org/abus/pres_elig.htm
To be “natural born” is to be born on a spot of soil somewhere, and that also makes one a citizen, of jus soli countries like the United States, if that soil is part of the dominion of that country, which in U.S. law is referred to as “incorporated” territory, as distinct from a protectorate, leasehold, or other merely “administered” territory.
Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz
Born December 22, 1970, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, of a father who was a citizen of Cuba, and a mother who was a citizen of the U.S.
Sen. Cruz is not eligible to be president, and could only be made eligible in two ways.
One would be for at least the small parcel of land in Calgary on which he was born to be ceded to the U.S. and made incorporated territory for the duration of a term as president. It could not just be U.S. soil at the moment he might be inaugurated, but it could remain Canadian soil until that moment, and then be ceded back when his successor is inaugurated.
The second would be for the province of Alberta to secede from Canada and be admitted as a state of the U.S. before the term of presidency would begin. The spot doesn’t have to be U.S. soil as of the date of birth, only for the duration of the term in office.
Conservatism is not about ideology regardless of what some in the "movement" claim. It's about abiding by certain principles and using common sense.
The Neocons are conservative ideologues. Look where their "leadership" took us.
Conservative libertarians are ideologues. Look how successful they've been. They couldn't even capture the imagination of the Libertarian Party.
Free Marketeers and their economic ideology gave us what? The elimination of the Glass-Steagall Act. Whoopee!
And besides, the whole left/right dichotomy is a false one. There are more interesting concepts to divide along than sides of a room some past legislative body happened to be standing in. Collectivism vs. Individualism vs. Communitarianism. Centralized vs. Decentralized government. Economics driving social policy vs. Social policy driving economics.
There are rightwingers and leftwingers to support all possible combinations of the above topics.
But of course we will continue to divide ourselves childishly between right and left for decades to come or until the republic is reduced to the status of Rome after its sacking.
The Constitution as a “living document” would allow any US Citizen to be considered “natural born”. The meaning of “natural born citizen” when the Constitution was written means born on the land, or at least of parents who were American citizens. The law at the time was that a women takes on the citizenship of her husband. So under that interpretation, Ted Cruz is a natural-born Canadian.
While Ted’s dad has said that he was a Canadian citizen when Ted was born, we have yet to see a definitive statement from or about whether his mother had also accepted Canadian citizenship. All we have been shown is her birth certificate.
Either Ted Cruz is a original-intent Constitutionalist and therefore ineligible to be President or he is a living-document Constitutionalist and eligible to be President. It is one or the other, but it can’t be both.
Yes! That is why it is so strange that he hasn’t gone for the Declaratory judgement. After all, Ted is best buddies with the Chief Justice.
I’m surprised you would post this considering how the candidate you support is not conservative at all. Your double-standard is quite telling.
Well, I’m trying to make up my mind and it does make me wonder. Born with dual citizenship, out of the country ... we don’t seem to mind because it’s Canada, but it’s the same status as if he were born in Saudi Arabia to a Saudi man and an American woman. Not sure we’d be quite as comfortable with that. I thought it took both parents being US citizens to convey natural born citizenship ... no question of dual loyalties and all. Of course, it’s clearly not settled.
Just trying to sort it out, and it does give me pause.
conservative = common sense
When doesn't it?
Exactly.
People are running around talking about Cruz is a “pure conservative.” There is no such person, even Cruz says he isn’t one.
No one on this earth is a “pure” anything. The ONLY pure Person to ever walk this earth is Jesus the Christ.
Thank You, Jesus!
“And trump is???”
DRUM ROLL....
Answer? TRUMP.
“I’m surprised you would post this considering how the candidate you support is not conservative at all. Your double-standard is quite telling.”
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I’m surprised you would comment on this considering how the candidate you support is not conservative at all...he even says so himself. Your hypocrisy is quite telling.
There, fixed it.
Thanks.
“Nice try, try again.”
Okay, if you say so...
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