About 50 IQ points.
Will you be willing to sign this contract with your constituents that you will resign your seat immediately if you do not represent them the way you said you would during your campaign?
Will you provide all your constituents with a copy of the bills that your are asked to vote on and will you always vote on the record?
Will you record any and all conversations, meetings, phone calls, emails, text messages with any lobbyist or special interest group and make those recordings available to your constituents?
Why do you want to run for ________? What issues concern you the most? How are you qualified? What are the specific day to day duties of the position? For a collegial position, how often have you been to public meetings of the __________?
How do you assess the performance of the current incumbent? What would you do differently? Be prepared to ask detailed questions and to discuss taxes, budget, spending, and legal and political issues involving the position up for election.
How have you prepared to run for that office? Can you pass a detailed background check? What issues and negative information would a background check find?
Have you ever run for office before? How would you finance your campaign, and what budget do you have? Do you have a wide circle of friends and family ready to support your campaign? What experience do you have as a public speaker?
How do you assess other candidates for the position? How do you plan to defeat them?
Can you live on the salary for the position? Can you bear the loss of time and income that running for public office imposes? Do your immediate family support your desire to run for office and are they prepared to make sacrifices and accept burdens to do so? Have you analyzed the political demographics of the district you want to run in? Do you have a written out campaign plan?
Those kinds of questions sort out the wishers and wannabes from the serious candidates. They also identify weaknesses that need to be remedied in even the best candidates.
Yet is the candidate someone you actually want to elect? Here is how to find out.
Ask for examples in detail of times when they took a stand for or against something or someone based on principle in spite of the time and effort required and risks to job, career, or reputation?
Did you win or lose, and how and why? What did you learn from such experiences?
What made you into a conservative and a populist? Look for connections between personal events and circumstances and the ideas that animate conservatism and populism. Ask for details of books and articles read and any mentors who influenced them along the way.
The questioner should press for names, contact information, and other details in order to be able to verify what you are told. Most people will stumble badly on this, with even practiced liars unable to contrive supposed examples.
What is the difference between a citizen and a natural born citizen?
Clearly from the language of Article II Sec.1 there is a difference.
The difference is that one can only naturally be a citizen when one cannot be anything else.
The children of foreigners are born something else from their foreign parent(s) and are therefore not naturally Americans.
Same principle that gives Ted Cruz any claim to US citizenship being born in Canada, he inherited it from his mother.
He is just as eligible as Anwar al-Awlaki’s kids, born in Yemen to one citizen parent.
Or all the Chinese tourist babies.