If Ted Cruz decides to run for the Presidency and he appears to be the strongest conservative running, I will support him to the hilt. He's one of the few conservatives in the Senate who actually has the balls to stand up for conservatism and against Obama and the GOP-e RINOs. This is a battle for the survival of America as a free nation. If we allow the democrats and the GOP-e statists to select our next opposition candidate for us, ie, Chris Christie or Jeb Bush, this nation is kaput.
We stand united or we fall. We cannot afford to destroy our best candidates or to split our conservative vote to the point that the likes of Christy or Bush gets the nod and someone like Hillary waltzes into the White House.
Supporting the "electable" Dole, McCain and Romney gave us Clinton and Obama. Supporting the crazy conservative gave us President Reagan.
Dittos!
Cruz is my guy. Anyone who can get McAmnesty in such a fit is the perfect candidate! NO MORE RINOS!
Well, now that the precedent’s been set I guess a donkey could pretty much be “president”! :O
I would fully support Ted Cruz as president from the knowledge I have now. May God bless him and protect him and watch over us and give us strength to return to freedom and to him.
Thank you for posting this, JimRob. Common sense hasn’t been very common on a lot of threads about potential presidential candidacies of Td Cruz, Marco Rubio or Bobby Jindal. A natural-born citizen of the U.S. is a person who was a U.S. citizen at birth, under the laws in place ar the time if his birth. Period.
Me, too, which is why I did a double-take when I read this above:
I'm pretty sure I've heard Levin make a good case against citizen status for offspring of illegal aliens.
Neither CATO nor Levin have an ounce of Legal authority in America. Both made convincing arguments that the individual mandate was unconstitutional. Clearly the judicial branch is controlled by liberal dems... sad, but true.
I am so pissed off at the left and their phony president and his communist ways that I would vote for a Russian born with both parents Russian capitalist and freedom lover just to spite those a holes for what they put our country through.
I know it might be wrong, but damn the torpedoes. Cruz has my vote.
Supporting the "electable" Dole, McCain and Romney gave us Clinton and Obama. Supporting the crazy conservative gave us President Reagan.^^^ this cannot be said enough. I don't think Cruz is the guy though. What's wrong with Lee? He seems far more Reaganesque to me.
Hear, Hear!
I am so in line with your thinking. I just wish more people had as much common sense or at least, the brain power to acknowledge that common sense.
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Jim, I really love Ted Cruz and if he wins the primary I will certainly work for him and vote for him. I think it’s a bit too early to settle on one candidate just yet. After watching both of them, my instinct says Scott Walker is the one who can carry it all the way. He and Cruz are the two I’m watching, and I think that Cruz will have the same problem that Sarah had. He will be Alinskyed to the point where sqishy moderates will be convinced he is satan incarnate. Walker has already been through that and came out smelling like a rose. Note the response he got in Iowa. He & Cruz were the two who got the most response.
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I support Cruz for anything but the Presidency, I can not in good conscience have opposed Obama’s qualification to President, and then turn around and support Cruz when I don’t believe neither is a natural born citizen.
The article states “In other words, anyone who is a citizen at birth - as opposed to someone who becomes a citizen later (”naturalizes”) or who isn’t a citizen at all - can be president.”
What??? where did he get that?
There is a difference between a natural born citizen and a citizen.
Being a citizen at birth is not the same as being a natural born citizen. The author fails to make the connection.
Reading the Supreme court cases is interesting, for example United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U. S. 649 (1898):
The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution ... contemplates two sources of citizenship, and two only: birth and naturalization. Citizenship by naturalization can only be acquired by naturalization under the authority and in the forms of law. But citizenship by birth is established by the mere fact of birth under the circumstances defined in the Constitution. Every person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof becomes at once a citizen of the United States, and needs no naturalization. A person born out of the jurisdiction of the United States can only become a citizen by being naturalized, either by treaty, as in the case of the annexation of foreign territory; or by authority of Congress, exercised either by declaring certain classes of persons to be citizens, as in the enactments conferring citizenship upon foreign-born children of citizens, or by enabling foreigners individually to become citizens by proceedings in the judicial tribunals, as in the ordinary provisions of the naturalization acts.”
So its pretty clear to me that anyone NOT born in the US is a citizen by naturalization.
They may be a (naturalized) citizen at birth by virtue of the citizenship of their parents, or under different circumstances through the process which is what we normally think of the as the naturalization process.
This is just my opinion, but this highlights the need for the Supreme Court to make a ruling on this issue.