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Realistically, nobody is going to challenge his right to run for president.

There have been so many threads about this topic in the past. Ultimately you would need a court ruling on what “natural born citizen” means in the context of running for president. I’m just saying, realistically, nobody is going to challenge Cruz in court on this issue.

Barry Goldwater was born in Arizona before it was a state, and still ran for president.

John McCain was born in Panama of American citizen parents.

In 1968, George Romney was a leading candidate for president in the GOP primaries. He was born in Mexico of American citizen parents.

I don’t think anyone ever challenged the right of any of the above to put their names on election ballots and run for president. Accordingly, I would be shocked if anyone would do anything to stop Ted Cruz from running due to his Canadian birth to an American citizen mother.

John McCain was born in Panama of American citizen parents.

I'm of the opinion the 2008 elections were engineered to erode the NBC requirement.
The whole issue is also muddied by the easy confusion of anchor-baby style naturalization and citizen by right of birth [NBC].

The NWO-types hate the NBC requirement because inherent and underlying that requirement is the assumption that nationality does matter, and that those born to a country have a greater chance of being loyal to that country than just anybody.

I don’t think anyone ever challenged the right of any of the above to put their names on election ballots and run for president. Accordingly, I would be shocked if anyone would do anything to stop Ted Cruz from running due to his Canadian birth to an American citizen mother.

You have more faith in the decency of Liberals than do I. I should not be surprised that once he wins the nomination the Liberals will start pushing court challenges.

It doesn't even matter if he wins in court because the damage will be done by the constant harping on the question of his eligibility. They will keep saying "Is Ted Cruz Eligible?" and they will keep implying that he is not.

By the time a court decision comes in, the public may be poisoned on him. The Liberals don't have to win in legal court, they only have to poison the public mind against him, and that might be all that is necessary to insure an election loss.

But I don't know for sure, it might turn out differently, but I always say if you prepare for the worst case scenario, you are often not disappointed.

They key words of NBC are “under the jurisdiction thereof...”.