1. Learn how to debate without condescension - which means no more long pauses which can get filled by snarky comments from working-class ‘braindead’ folks who are quicker on their feet than Cruz and
2. Some voice lessons. He has the worst speaking voice after Hillary. High, nasal, piercing and irritating.
Oh, and try being honest and not undercut his fellow Conservatives. That might work.
No Miss Marmelstein, Ted needs to find a way to discover that he was actually born to a citizen father, along with his presumably citizen mother (she had left a British husband, and possibly renounced her U.S. citizenship to become a British subject, not that it matters given Dad’s Cuban citizenship).
Cruz also needs to find a birth certificate that claims he was born on soil over which the U.S. has total sovereignty, if only an embassy or military hospital on a base made sovereign by Congress (which was the problem McCain was trying to deal with. The Canal Zone wasn’t made sovereign until 1937, the year after his birth, and many children of military personnel born in the Canal Zone needed to apply for naturalization to return to the U.S., though born to U.S. citizens serving in Panama, the very bill, SB 2678, sponsored by Senators Obama and McCaskill in February 2008; yes, they knew the truth, with Obama’s constitutional law professor Larry Tribe, trying to explain away the same problem in the Senate Judiciary hearings on the “Senator John McCain Natural Born Citizen Resolution”, SR 511, in April of 2008.
Cruz lied confidently, as pointed out by Larry Tribe, his (and Obama’s) con. law professor in a Jan 11 2016 Boston Globe op-ed. He should not be confirmed for the any court, and might be prosecuted for accepting campaign donations though legally ineligible; he knew he was safe since the Supreme Court is politicized and corrupt, and had refused certiorari, probably based upon the two Obama appointees, Kagan and Sotomayor, who would have lost millions if Obama had been held to Minor v. Happersett or Wong Kim Ark, or Perkins v. Elg precedent - Minor was sufficient.
Cruz’ good conservative opinions must be questioned as pandering to a community to which he might appear, even with his veiled support for his wife’s Trans Pacific Partnership authorship, and his TPA support, before he didn’t support it. Cruz counts on most not associating the 14th Amendment, based upon the Constitution’s enumerated “naturalization” responsibility, while Article II Section 1 requires that a president be natural born, and not naturalized. He lied. The only way around that fact is to declaim oneself, as did Obama and Tribe, to be a believer in a “Living Constitution:. A living constitution is malleable. For legal purposes, it is whatever the majority, or those with political power want it to be. Allowing a majority, Congress, to reinterpret the Constitution violates Article V. Our framers wanted a bit more protection for our inalienable rights, and provided amendments with 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of the states. We have ceased to be a constitutional republic. That is not what Cruz and his “conservatives” want you to understand, but to naively accept. The truth is well documented but most don’t read the documents. Cruz counted on your ignorance.
3. Try not being such a douchebag.