The conservative media's civil war over Ted Cruz 'birtherism'

Washington Post ^ | 01/14/2016 | By Callum Borchers

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If you thought some in the conservative media lost their minds over President Obama's birth certificate, you were right. But the current brouhaha over Ted Cruz's place of birth -- in which Donald Trump reprises his role as chief instigator -- might be even more compelling, in its own way, because of the civil war it has sparked on the right side of the press.

Sadly, there is no way that Ted Cruz can continue running in the Republican Primary unless he can erase doubt on eligibility. Dems will sue!

-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2016

Witness this week's heated exchange on MSNBC (of all places) between conservative provocateur Ann Coulter and Republican media strategist Liz Mair. Coulter insisted that Cruz -- born in Canada but a U.S. citizen from the moment he left the womb, thanks to his mother's citizenship -- is not eligible to be president. Mair asserted with equal force that Cruz is eligible and at one point charged that Coulter is "in no way conservative." Card revoked!

(Coulter is an ardent supporter of Trump, the GOP presidential front-runner; Mair heads the anti-Trump super PAC Make America Awesome.)

And Coulter -- for those keeping score -- has changed her position on this subject. That's awfully convenient, since no one would stand to gain more from Cruz's disqualification than Coulter's favorite candidate.

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Yes, both. Each contributes one third. Equally.

However, in older, more patriarchal times, the mother's citizenship contribution would have been automatically and legally the same as the father's due to/because of the legal partnership of marriage.

I'm not sure how that would have worked with "illegitimate" children back then, though.

There once was a lot of negative stigma attached to being a "bastard" child for a lot of reasons.

Regardless, the mother contributes one third of her child's citizenship inheritance at birth the same as the father does. Neither greater than nor superior to the other.

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The first link in this post #10 is the one you are looking for.