I agree completely with your analysis. I am concerned only that we protect the country from being ruled with someone who doesn’t have American loyalties.
The situation needs to be clarified even though no matter what laws you write you can’t avoid a possibility of that happening, nor can you avoid the possibility that true patriots such as Cruz will have to serve the country in another capacity than President depending on the definition of natural born. That last point is the silver lining in the cloud of our present mess, Cruz can run and hopefully in the near future the criterion can be clarified for the future. In an imperfect world we need to take our wins as we find them.
Obama’s presidency is instructive. His loyalties were not here.
Anwar al Awlaki’s anchor baby US citizen children are eligible for the presidency if I understand correctly, even though they are not being raised loyal to this country or culture.
The appearance of divided loyalties is hard to write into law.
I think I’d require 3rd generation birth citizenship and their formative years up to age 21 living in this country OR with military/consular type parents, if I could write a new law now. That is not to say that I don’t think Cruz is eligible. I do.
After Obama, I’d rewrite the Constitution and the law.