Posted on 01/15/2016 1:18:15 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I have to leave for an appointment in a few minutes, so I’ll have to provide a short answer. Simply put, there have been all too few of you who make these types of complaints who have been willing to stand with us in demanding the natural born citizen clause to be respected. As a consequence you got Chester Arthur, the Wong Kim Ark decision, and the entire rogue’s gallery of ineligible candidates ever since then. Had the citizens of all political parties stood up and defended the natural born citizen clause, Obama and his subversion of the Republic could not have happened. Given yet another election and another opportunity to stop this abrogation of the natural born citizen clause, yet again there are too few defenders to stop the continued destruction of this safeguard for the Republic and the destruction of the Supreme Court of the United Sates by unqualified appointments.
G. Romney campaign tanked before his elligibility got challenged in the courts.
McCain was born of two American citizens on a military base while they were serving in the military. Congress passed a near unanimous resolution confirming McCain’s eligibility to run for President. There was no legal challenge.
Hillary should be on trial for crimes but not eligibility.
Obama managed to get all the cases dismissed without any being heard on their merits.
Because the Democrats, GOPe, and some GOPc; and the judiciary are conspiring and/or collaborating to give them protection and virtual immunity. As a consequence the not so conservative conservatives and outright non-conservatives are getting the kind of government they asked for and deserve. And, they’re dragging the rest of us along with them into the catastrophe.
I could be wrong, but it seems as if your m.o. is just to get Trump the nomination by hook or crook - you know, the "New York" way...
(BTW I reject your premise outright: Cruz is eligible to run and we should not even be having this conversation.)
Look at Obama’s elective history prior to 2008... Look carefully at his Senate campaign, and before that his State Senate campaigns... How did he win?
Cruz wants to be the “Defender of the Constitution” but he is dodging this very important constitutional eligibility question.
Every time he gets a case dismissed on standing or technicalities it’s going to hurt Cruz. How can he defend the Constitution when is own eligibility is questionable and he won’t go through the steps necessary to resolve it once and for all.
Maybe the lawsuits will resolve it. But I bet those drag out until it doesn’t matter because Trump has won enough primaries that Cruz concedes and drops out.
And if that is the result - they drag out and effect the primaries - those of us with long memories will remember it in November and, as in 2012, sit out the general. Count on it. Trump may have cost us the WH this past week.
effect = affect
Trump didn’t file the lawsuits. And there is no indication the suits are being filed on behalf of Trump in any way.
Trump tried to get Cruz to head this off. But Cruz either refused or dallied.
The entire thing is a "when did you quit beating your wife scenario?"
Not even close.
Cruz isn’t being accused of doing anything wrong. It’s just he may be ineligible because he wasn’t born in the U.S. to two American citizens.
Dude, chill. Cruz brought up the most extreme tin foil hat arguments that are floating around for a laugh to let Trump know his argument is as baseless as the claim he, Cruz, just made. Cruz doesn’t think Trump is not eligible. It just went over your head is all. I guess you missed the entire audience, Trump included, laughing. Listen to it again. Christy could be heard laughing louder than anyone because it was... funny.
Cruz REALLY should have gotten ahead of this.
He’s effectively being accused of existing in America. The Donald is doing what Obama did, trying to remove him on some technicality to “clear the field”.
"...I know it's a lot to ask, but you are one of my best supporters and that's why I'm turning to you first. If I can't count on you, I have nowhere else to turn..."
Ted is so toast. Because his "best supporter", me, is totally in the tank for Trump.
I write the bots that send mass e-mails like this and can assure you they do not distinguish. That’s not a Ted problem, it’s a software limitation.
RE: Ted Cruz said the theory is supposed to be that both parents have to be natural born citizens for the child to be a natural born citizen. That is a lie. The parents only need to be naturalized citizens or natural born citizens, and not just natural born citizens.
Let’s be accurate here. Referring to what people have argued in the past does not make it a lie. It makes it a RECOGNITION that such theories exist.
Cruz was referring to theories being touted by MANY people who insist that both parents have to be natural born citizens for the child to be a natural born citizen.
Of course that theory is NOT a lie. The best you can call it is that it is a MIS-UNDERSTANDING of the term “natural born” as it applies to a child.
But to say that such theories do not exist does not comport with reality. THEY DO. I’ve debated it with a few FReepers myself.
RE:He said this falsehood,
Let’s make that a bit more accurate.
He REFERRED to this falsehood which is believed by quite a number of people interested in this subject in order to rebut it.
RE: Ted is so toast. Because his “best supporter”, me, is totally in the tank for Trump.
LOL, you think a mass e-mail is a very personal one directed specifically to you?
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