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Posted on 05/01/2013 5:39:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Freshman senator Ted Cruz is considering a presidential run, according to his friends and confidants.
Cruz won’t talk about it publicly, and even privately he’s cagey about revealing too much of his thought process or intentions. But his interest is undeniable.
“If you don’t think this is real, then you’re not paying attention,” says a Republican insider. “Cruz already has grassroots on his side, and in this climate, that’s all he may need.”
“There’s not a lot of hesitation there,” adds a Cruz donor who has known the Texan for decades. “He’s fearless.”
For the moment, Cruz’s inner circle is small: mostly aides from his Senate campaign; his father, Rafael; and his wife, Heidi. They didn’t plan on having these presidential conversations so early in his first term. Yet Cruz’s rapid ascent and a flurry of entreaties from conservative leaders have stoked their interest — and Cruz’s. “Ted won’t be opening an Iowa office anytime soon, but he’s listening,” says a longtime Cruz associate. “This is all in the early stages; nothing is official. It’s just building on its own.”
Behind the scenes, there is a palpable fear on the right that the GOP will nominate a moderate Republican in 2016. There’s also growing unease with the field of likely contenders.
Enter Cruz. His supporters argue that he’d be a Barry Goldwater type — a nominee who would rattle the Republican establishment and reconnect the party with its base – but with better electoral results.
Republican power brokers from the early-primary states have noticed. They tell me that the Cruz factor is a frequent topic of discussion among state-based strategists.
“You bet, he’s on my radar,” says Chad Connelly, the chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party. “Conservatives think he’s a rock star. I hear about him from everybody.”
Cruz’s allies whisper that the 42-year-old attorney, who holds degrees from Harvard Law and Princeton, doesn’t take the groundswell of enthusiasm lightly. Besides talking with conservative grandees, he has called his peers in the legal community and raised the prospect.
“We all see a path, and he does, too,” says a former Cruz colleague. “This isn’t someone who needs to be told the obvious. He didn’t run for the Senate to get cozy, so no one who knows him is surprised that he’s at least looking at it.”
Cruz isn’t worried that his birth certificate will be a problem. Though he was born in Canada, he and his advisers are confident that they could win any legal battle over his eligibility. Cruz’s mother was a U.S. citizen when he was born, and he considers himself to be a natural-born citizen.
As Cruz considers a run, his staff keeps adding new speaking appearances to his calendar. This week, he’ll headline the South Carolina GOP’s Silver Elephant dinner; in late May, he’ll speak to Wall Street heavies at the New York GOP’s annual dinner.
Earlier this year, Cruz gave the keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where he was greeted with a raucous reception and praised by Sarah Palin. She touted Cruz as a conservative who “chews barbed wire and spits out rust.”
The debates over gun control, immigration, and President Obama’s appointees have fueled his rise. He has been out front on each issue, brashly battling Democrats and, if need be, his fellow Republicans. “He’s the purest of the young conservative senators — that’s how we see him,” says a consultant who works for a leading conservative group.
That ideological purity and Cruz’s presidential maneuvers make aides close to other Republican contenders nervous. The backroom Republican consensus is that a Cruz insurgency would hardly be a quixotic publicity stunt. He’d outflank almost all of the other candidates on the right, and his debating skills, which once won him national awards, would be formidable. It doesn’t hurt that much of the media already hates him with a passion.
He’s also tighter with Republican donors than most people realize. Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal, is a close friend — one of many donors with Cruz ties. Four years ago, Thiel poured more than $250,000 into Cruz’s aborted race for Texas attorney general, and he has recently donated millions to groups supporting Cruz, such as the Club for Growth. Sources close to other top Republican donors tell me that the senator is as good at wooing financiers as he is at wooing the Tea Party.
Cruz is obviously only one of several Senate conservatives gunning for the nomination. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, among others, have been busy traveling to the early states and slowly building up their political staffs. So have GOP governors such as Wisconsin’s Scott Walker and Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal.
For now, Cruz is running behind in terms of organization. But sources say that doesn’t deter him in the slightest. “If he thinks this country needs bold leadership, he’s not going to shy away,” the former colleague says. “He is one of the most confident people I know, and he’d run to win.”
— Robert Costa is National Review’s Washington editor.
If that were true then if a Japanese woman, for example, gave birth on a U.S. military base then her child would be a U.S. citizen. U.S. bases on foreign soil are not U.S. territory. A child born on them gets his or her U.S. citizenship through the parents and not the location.
If there is evidence of his father having US citizenship at the time of Ted’s birth, then this might be a grey area.
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Everything I’ve seen indicates Cruz’s father became a citizen in 2005.
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Cruz brags about how his Cuban father fought with rebels supporting Fidel Castro against dictator Fulgencio Batista in the 1950s, before Castro announced that he was a communist. Rafael Cruz fled the country and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, then moved to Canada to work in the oil fields near Alberta, where Ted Cruz was born. The family eventually moved to Houston, and his father became a U.S. citizen in 2005.
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Another mention of 2005
http://www.texastribune.org/2012/08/13/texplainer-could-canadian-born-ted-cruz-be-preside/
Wiki and others have that same date......
No I agree with you.
I’m just talking about how the system has decided to deal with the issue.
They aren’t going to change.
He and Palin are the only two qualified as of now. I would fight for either or both of them!
LLS
Don’t mean to burst any bubble, but “understood” = assume and assume will make an ass out of u and me.
Not being any Constitutional authority, I have read lots of what others, who are, have to say regarding NBC and frankly NBC is like a bottomless pit, lots of questions and assumptions, but very few answers.
From those scholars, it sounds like Cruz is NBC simply because of “one US Citizen parent” regardless of birth location.
Until I had read what smarter folks had to say on NBC, I too thought Ted was not eligible. Now that its been explained somewhat, I think he very well could be and don’t see any Constitutional path to prove otherwise. Wish I had saved that info, but it was on FR, somewhere.
Cruz has been studying and arguing the Constitution since he was a kid, if anyone could straighten out our messes from a Constitutional standpoint, he could. I also think the man has enough integrity to not try to trick the NBC issue. That’s why I will support him 100%.
9) Cruz allies laugh at the idea that Canadian birth will be a prob. Say he's brilliant atty, knows how to explain how he's "natural born"— Robert Costa (@robertcostaNRO) May 1, 2013
As per our conversation yesterday.
Hope springs eternal ... our LORD knows how much evil is afoot in America. The people that say we are believers, and Christians must stand up and reject the Abortion on demand. God has removed his hand of protection from America due to the falling away of our values and beliefs. We are hearing feel good messages at church and very little substance about what we are to do as Christians. Being obedient to God's commands. Jesus’ commands. We are turning away from truth. We serve a merciful God. When we repent in truth, he will hear and forgive us and heal our land.
God is the answer. Love the LORD God with all thy heart, soul, mind, and spirit, in Jesus name, amen.
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I'd crawl across broken glass...in the desert...and give up 50% of my net worth...for the opportunity to vote for Benjamin Netanyahu for POTUS.
Since that's not going to happen, I'm sure happy to keep my eye on Sen Cruz for the next 2 years. If he can survive living in D.C., with the constant seduction and brow-beating from his Senate "colleagues", such as McCrazy, and still advocate so consistently for conservative principles, I won't care if Sen Cruz was born on Mars.
The links sure seem to show the left being now “birthers”.
Whereas the right is wanting clarification, with some like Briebart seeing it as clearly Cruz is NBC.
“No court has ruled what makes a “natural-born citizen,” but there appears to be a consensus that the term refers to those who gain American citizenship by birth rather than by naturalization — again, including Texas’s junior senator.” Therein lies the issue, that there is no defining authority on NBC. It obviously was never needed prior to nobama, because those who wanted to be candidates and who did not 100% meet NBC, were honest enough and didn’t force it as did nobama.
I think this is a subject to never be proven if the question of NBC is in a grey area, even by a stretch. One side or the other will always give them the benefit of the doubt.
Historical proof of one’s character should rule in those NBC grey area questions. With nobama, the left opted for “the end justifies the means”. I do not see the Right doing that.
Me too, I have a lot of respect for Mr. Netanyahu.
In terms of where a person was born qualifying them for potus, almost every in the republican party was born here, and I don’t want any of them. Same for the democrat party.
Far as I can see, those born here don’t appreciate or understand a damn thing.
If I have to look elsewhere for a leader who understand and believes in freedom and the fortitude necessary to maintain freedom, then I have to look elsewhere.
There are no "smarter folks" on NBC. They are a propaganda agency.
Not “that” NBC, silly you. But you are correct also.
Only have NBC network on for local weather at 10:15 and Jay’s monolog. After that, back to Backyard Oil.......
It has been a while since I researched and read the specific cases which expanded on natural born citizen status. The wording is easily misconstrued, but is clear in the 2 cases that pertain.
Past that it is clear from the actions of President Arthur that he knew he was not qualified under the Constitution to be President, because his father was a Canadian citizen at the time of his birth. He lied and hid all trace of his birth records to prevent this being an issue.
It is clear that this was understood at the time. There has been no court cases since then that changed that.
That’s it.
“Not being any Constitutional authority, I have read lots of what others, who are, have to say regarding NBC and frankly NBC is like a bottomless pit, lots of questions and assumptions, but very few answers.”
I, likewise, am not a Constitutional authority. However, while this natural born Citizen subject seems complicated, if you look at it through the eyes of natural law, it really isn’t. A child born in a country to parents who are citizens of that country CANNOT be anything but a natural born Citizen.
When you start adding in parents from other countries or birth in another country, you get away from natural law and into manmade law. A country has to legally define who is a citizen and what processes you need to go through to document their citzenship.
There has been some horrible case law on this subject, not to mention a bunch of gymnastic interpretations to try to clarify who is a citizen and who isn’t. If you’re born in the country to two citizen parents, no law or interpretation is needed.
If a man is born in Canada to an American mother and Cuban father, that child is not only an American citizen by manmade law, but also a Cuban citizen. Dual (or tri*) citizen - dual (or tri) allegiance. (*He may also be a citizen of Canada, depending on whether they have birthright citizenhsip or not.)
Ted Cruz, Mario Rubio, Nikki Haley, Bobby Jindal, while all nice people, are American citizens by manmade law. If you’re looking for someone to guide your country and military who has no allegiance to another country, these people don’t fit. If their parents got them passports to their home countries (India and Cuba) when they were born, like Ted Cruz’s mother did to America, unless they have renounced their Indian or Cuban citizenship, they may be able to go back to their parent’s (father’s) country and run for office there. Don’t know that they could, but these are things you can run into with dual citizens. A natural born citizen can’t do that.
I’m very interested to hear Ted Cruz explain how he is eligible to become President.
Don’t we have any Americans, born in America to Americans, who can do this job properly?
So was the mother of Aldo Mario Bellei, but that didn't stop him from LOSING his citizenship because he WAS NOT a "natural born citizen."
Neither is Cruz. I like him, but sorry, it doesn't work that way.
And this is a legitimate argument. It is obvious that no one cares about the correct meaning of article II, although I think if we ran Cruz, the Democrats might very well make an issue of it.
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