Jim:
Given the precedent set by Barry’s inauguration twice, I support Ted Cruz as a candidate for POTUS.
I note that CATO writer, Ilya Shapiro, goes out of his way to point out that if Barry was born outside the US then the same statute that makes Cruz a citizen at birth would prevent Barry from having been one.
Per Ilya Shapiro:
“So why all the brouhaha about where Obama was born, given that there’s no dispute that his mother, Ann Dunham, was a citizen? Because his mother was 18 when she gave birth to the future president in 1961 and so couldn’t have met the 5-year-post-age-14 residency requirement. Had Obama been born a year later, it wouldn’t have mattered whether that birth took place in Hawaii, Kenya, Indonesia, or anywhere else.”
Shapiro, being a friend of Cruz, doubtless ran this by him before publishing it, so it seems to me that Shapiro and likely also Cruz by stating that if Barry wasn’t born in the US he was not a US citizen and therefore ineligible could qualify them both as being a particular kind of “birther”...(which is the kind that I happen to be).
I found it amusing that when Mark Levin was reading this column by Shapiro on his radio program and got to the above quoted paragraph with clear “birther” implications, he stopped after the question posed in the first sentence and then omitted the answer that explains how Cruz’s qualifying statute would disqualify Barry. Levin muttered “Oh Lord if I go down this road, all the kooks will be shooting at me.” so he skipped over it.
Go to the link below to hear Levin omitting this part of the article @4:54:
http://therightscoop.com/mark-levin-explains-that-ted-cruz-is-a-natural-born-citizen/
I don’t know whether Sheriff Arpaio and Mike Zullo have been communicating with Ted Cruz and perhaps Ilya Shapiro, but Zullo claims they have found evidence in their confidential criminal investigation that points to Barry NOT being born in Hawaii. Perhaps Shapiro is giving a little warning to Hillary’s opposition-research team and to Barry not to press too hard on Cruz’s eligibility?
Either give it a rest or go somewhere else to post. I’m not interested in your slander of two great conservatives (Levin and Cruz). Drop it or begone!!