The Presidential eligibility of Ted Cruz

8/29/13 | Lakeshark

[Lakeshark]

Have at it, I think this would be a good day to call a cease fire.

[LibLieSlayer]

If Cruz runs... I will back him... and Jim Robinson is on record saying the same. We ALL need to embrace Conservative Tenants and to praise those that live by them in DC. Cruz is one honest man that does!

[JRandomFreeper]

A call for sanity. How quaint.

Never happen.

/johnny

[bigbob]

Amen. Sick of this issue being posted many times per week.

[babble-on]

tenets

[Lakeshark]

FYI ping.

[Qwackertoo]

IF he runs, he has my vote and my support and a nice donation to his campaign.

[Baynative]

Factoid: Section 301(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act extends citizenship to anyone born to an American citizen — such as Cruz’s mother at the time of his own birth.

[Norm Lenhart]

“Not to surrender your beliefs, no one has to do that yet, “

I liked that part. You know, “Yet.”

[Sherman Logan]

Sounds reasonable to me.

[JRandomFreeper]

I caught that, too. Gonna suck for them when I don't surrender my beliefs, me being a purist, and all.

/johnny

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Ditto.

[Norm Lenhart]

The best part is this opinion piece reads like a GOP memo. I see many familiar arguments.

I love Cruz, But he’s gotta get this straight at the Supreme level. If not, it’s going to get ugly.

[nathanbedford]

I agree with your admiration of Ted Cruz, in fact I have long poasted that he looks now to be our best potential candidate for 2016.

I also agree that the time is not now ripe to argue among ourselves concerning his eligibility.

However I vehemently disagree with your recommendations to self censor our views and to self censor what we choose to post. So long as we stay within the general guidelines outlined by Jim Robinson, we should expand our horizons as widely as possible. If we are to know what the enemy is up to and marshal our arguments on behalf of conservatism, we simply have to expose ourselves to these articles and test our opinions in the crucible of FreeRepublic.

I believe the tendency to ban and to jot is regrettably far overdone and in the long run extremely unhealthy for the premier voice of conservatism. We decry the censorship from the left in our universities but want to practice the same thing ourselves. It is bad in both places.

[xzins]

I’ll be glad to follow the proposal.

Unilateral disarmament is not in my nature, though.

[Norm Lenhart]

The thing is, if we don’t settle this now and we follow the advice given, then the issue will be front and center come election time IF he runs.

We were told LAST TIME by many people in many articles like this that the time to settle these things id before or in the primary. Now we are being told, to, as Andrew Kalven so succinctly put it, just shut up.

Speaks for itself.

[Lakeshark]

I also agree that the time is not now ripe to argue among ourselves concerning his eligibility.

I agree fully. I disagree that this is a call to "self censorship", I never used that term, it was more a call for self control, like you say "at this time". We have far better things to concern ourselves with.

[Lakeshark]

Trust me, I’m not willing to unilaterally disarm either.

[P-Marlowe]

Since this issue seems to appear on every single Ted Cruz related thread, I would propose that we should treat the introduction of the NBC issue on a Ted Cruz thread as an attempt to hijack said thread and the poster should be warned and serial violations should result in suspension and zotting.

I can’t believe all the freepers who start every post with “I like Ted Cruz, but...NBC...”

It is not for us mere voters to decide if Ted Cruz will be ruled ineligible, it is for us to ensure that if he runs, he wins and it will be up to the weak kneed Congress to certify the election.

No judicial body will ever take up the case so this is a MAJOR DISTRACTION that is irrelevant to our fight to restore Liberty in this once free country. The Constitution is not a suicide pact. Yet so many seem so bent on using three obscure and archaic words to ensure the destruction of this Union.

I’m sick and tired of presenting the evidence of Ted Cruz’s eligibility to people who are either incapable of weighing evidence or who have a Destroy Ted Cruz agenda.

Ted Cruz is eligible. Let’s now move forward in the battle against tyranny. If Ted leads that battle I will be following his lead. I pray he does run. I pray he does win. But if he doesn’t run, I pray that someone with the political courage of Ted Cruz does run and win.

We have less than 3 years to prepare for the war to save this nation from tyranny. Let us not spend those years shooting at our Generals.

[JRandomFreeper]

If you will just surrender, there won't be all these arguments.

/johnny