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Well, the proper conservative candidate has to be above reproach as far as qualifications, and if either of Cruz’s parents were not citizens, then we’d better hold out for a conservative beyond question.

And let it be perfectly clear that such a lack of qualification does not besmirch Cruz’s name in the least. If we want to be a constitutional republic, we’d better insist on acting like one.

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[T]he proper conservative candidate has to be above reproach as far as qualifications, and if either of Cruz’s parents were not citizens, then we’d better hold out for a conservative beyond question.

Exactly! -- one who is Constitutionally qualified beyond reproach.

If we want to be a constitutional republic, we’d better insist on acting like one.

Exactly right again. Although you've got to love Ted Cruz's effective, unashamed promotion of conservatism (we certainly could use a few dozen more politicians on the national scene like him), he is not a natural born Citizen, so he cannot ever become a legitimate president or vice president (yes, I know that didn't stop aka obama).

He could do the country a great service by holding a series of very public press conferences whereupon he discusses the very serious doubts about his ineligibility based upon both his foreign birth and his father's non-citizen status at that moment. He could educate the country as to the original intent of founders and remind the press and public that this issue has already been decided by the supreme court as affirming the definition requiring birth free from any foreign allegiances (born exclusively 100 percent American by both blood and dirt). He could bring up the simple, irrefutable fact that the founders intended that to assume the presidency, one must be more than a mere born citizen, but be in fact a natural born Citizen. He could then rhetorically ask, "Why would the founders have included the modifier 'natural' in the phrase if it added absolutely no additional meaning?"

Ted Cruz has been presented with a golden opportunity to bring this issue to the national spotlight. I hope he is man enough and patriotic enough to yet do so (yes, I know a spokesman in his camp already said some weasel words about this issue, but I want to hear it from his own mouth discussed in detail).