Problem is Ted didn't have American parents, he had an American parent and a Cuban parent. IOW, less eligible than Obama.
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CATO institute has veered a lot into the far reaches of libertarian kookdom from what I’ve read (very sporadically) over the last few years.
IMHO if Cruz takes the bait that he’s a NBC, and being a Constitutional scholar or something, he ought to know better, then the Dems/leftist will, at the very last minute, pull out info proving that one must be born on US soil to be a NBC - jus solis, IIRC. Of course the researchers here know that to be a verity.
I am 100% sure of this. They will pull it out. And claim that Steaming is a NBC since his faux birth cert says “HI”. And now so many are running with this - Levin, for example, and a lot on FR will now focus their ire on anyone saying “Hey, he ain’t a NBC - foreign birth, foreign national father - two strikes!” We’re trolls, we’re dupes, we’re leftist traitors.
Anyone who thinks he’s a NBC is duped. And pretty soon there’ll be a long thread zotting anyone who says he isn’t, mark my words.
And then at the very last minute, after he’s gotten the nomination, a judge somewhere will make the decision that jus solis determines NBC status.
newbie.
I’d vote for Cruz in a heartbeat if only to shove the Obama precedent back on the libs but I’m afraid that there are probably enough diehard “birthers” to make his path to victory problematic. What I’d love to see Ted Cruz do is use his possible candidacy as a teachable moment - releasing his college funding records for example and explaining that as a dual citizen he needed to show that he never received as aid as a foreign student or lived in the foreign student dorm.
CAT also supports Open Borders, Illegal Alien Amnesty, and economically destructive Free Trade policies. How people think the are anything conservative when they are quite liberal on most issues
-PJ
I just don't understand this Cruz for President infatuation - over a man who has been in federal public office for less than a year - when yet another clause of the Constitution has to be turned on its head in order for it to work. Cruz is a good guy, but as Theodore Roosevelt famously said, NO MAN IS ABOVE THE LAW. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land!
There are a number of other good Republican candidates for the White House in 2016 who are head and shoulders above anything the 'Rats can offer and who pass the Natural Born Citizen test with flying colors.
Conform to the Constitution and pick an outstanding and constitutionally eligible candidate for the POTUS in 2016, and let Ted Cruz serve with distinction in the Senate for many years to come.
Wikipedia quote is that "A person of exceptional merit, generally a non-United States citizen may, be declared an Honorary Citizen of the United States by an act of Congress, or by a proclamation by the President of the United States.....
Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim, England in the year 1874. His father was Lord Randolph Churchill. His mother was the former Jenny Jerome of Brooklyn, New York.
Winston Churchill was declared an honorary citizen of the United States, by a proclamation delivered by President John F. Kennedy.
I would presume then, that Winston was not considered an American citizen, let alone a natural born citizen. His mother then, could not give him citizenship if this was the case.
FYI ping!
John Jay wrote to George Washington presiding over the constitutional convention to add the natural born citizen requirement to prevent a foreigner from being chief of the Army and the change was accepted without much discussion.
So the original intent of many of the founders was to let any long-term citizen be president. The requirement that the president be born a citizen was to prevent foreigners from becoming president.
So can Cruz be both born a citizen and born a foreigner?
The LIEbertarians liberals at CATO claim we don’t have borders, either. They are globalists and I don’t care to listen to the treasonous turds.