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Grayson. Ugh! Thank you for the name. I couldn’t think of his name at the moment. Yes, “certifiable”, is the word for it.

Now about the Cruz citizenship issue— I was reading elsewhere that Rick Sanchez (former CNN afternoon anchor) who is also an immigrant, explains that Rafael Cruz is Cuban, that though Mrs. Cruz is American born, he emphasizes that Rafael was not.

Now the two of them go to Canada, they reside in Canada of their own free will, and Mrs. Cruz becomes eligible to vote in Canada, becomes politically active there, and did vote in Canada.

The only way, according to Sanchez, that anyone inherits voting rights in Canada is through obtaining Canadian citizenship.

Sanchez claims that Ted Cruz is then born to a Cuban father and a Canadian-citizen mother.

Neither parent resided on American territory, while in Canada, nor were they serving in any capacity the interests of the USA while there. (As in the case of Senator John McCain, born in Panama, on a military base, to a parent serving in the American military and on assignment).

You can see where this is going and that if it is to be settled at all, once and for all, the questions of dual citizenship have to be clarified. Ted did not apply for Canadian citizenship, nor could he apply for American citizenship at his birth.

People are going to want to understand this argument about “dual citizenship”, “naturalization”. John McCain’s situation was a piece of cake. Ted’s is more complicated, because he loses the cover of his parents being on an American assignment to a foreign country and he was not born on an American territory in Canada, as in McCain’s case.

In fact, it was only very recently that Cruz untangled himself from his Canadian citizenship.

The government should have settled this thing once and for all, so these arguments don’t come up again and again.