I believe so… but, then again, I suspect 2008 (and 2012, to a lesser extent) was an offering of two illegitimate candidates for the purpose of [at some later date] weakening the Natural Born Citizen clause via precedent.
It may just be my cynicism, but looking into some of the crap that was pulled it's what makes sense to me.
Cruz is a Constitutional scholar. I don’t think he’d throw his name out there (which he has kind of done) if he knew he wasn’t eligible.That’s my theory.
I do know this: He would run away with his home state of Texas without even trying. (Which is something I’m not so sure about with Scott Walker. Not a knock against him, but Wisconsin has gone for the Kenyan Fuhrer in ‘08 and ‘12.) We absolutely can’t win with a candidate who can’t win his home state.