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To: GBA

Ted Cruz has no natural-born-citizen qualification problem. He does have a serious problem getting nominated and then elected. It won’t be easy.

I infer that Donald Trump has formed the opinion that if he doesn’t knock out Ted Cruz in Iowa, he is going to lose the nomination to Ted. So he is going all-out to accomplish that goal, by any means at his disposal. Mr. Trump apparently has also formed the opinion that he is immune from damaging his own reputation by lying about Ted Cruz. We’ll find out soon enough if his judgment about this is correct. I’ve switched my preference from Trump to Cruz because of this, but I may be unrepresentative of the average Republican voter.


182 posted on 01/10/2016 9:20:09 PM PST by doug6352
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To: doug6352
Okay, I understand where you are coming from and obviously yours is a shared opinion by a lot of people here.

You all could be right about Trump's method and we all agree about his wanting to win and currently Cruz is his only competition.

I don't know if he's been lying about Ted Cruz or not, haven't heard what you've heard him say.

However, we don't agree about Ted Cruz not having a natural born citizen problem; he'll always have a natural born citizen problem if that's what he wants or claims to be!

So naturally, we don't agree about how big the problem might be nor about what it says about him and why nor how potentially terminal for him and his career it is to now be in this current role.

For me, it's better to just give him and Trump the benefit of doubt and entertaining to speculate about whatever the truth may be, since, even best case, we'll still just have to wait and see.

From here, what Trump is doing could easily be seen as a timely rescue attempt while sealing the deal at the same time, and then called as a win for everyone involved.

189 posted on 01/10/2016 9:55:15 PM PST by GBA (Here in the matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: doug6352

If that’s all it took,Then you were not a true supporter of Trump, you just wanted to be on the winning side and now you think it is Cruz on top. In many people’s opinions including experts, Cruz does have a natural born citizen problem. So does Obama. If this is finally brought to a conclusion, it should eliminate foreigners with foreign loyalties from attaining our highest office. Obama would fall as well and that just might be THE reason it is being brought up. Ever think of that?


193 posted on 01/10/2016 10:18:05 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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