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if obama never had to produce a copy of his birth certificate, why should anyone else be required? can’t everyone just cite obama??
This is how scared they are of a real conservative. This is essentially a Borking move to try anything to stop a true conservative from becoming President.
We must fight to the last breath.
Good about the lawsuits. It’s best to get these things settled now BEFORE the nomination and the general election gets going.
Good. Hear it now and settle it. The SCOTUS should be mandated to take this up Monday morning and issue a declarative ruling. This is their job to decide constitutional questions.
Rubio is an actual anchor baby. Geesh America, Wake up!
RNC has standing and needs to file the declarative judgment naming Rubio , Cruz , Trump and even Jindall. It needs to be settled NOW before there is anymore slipping off the slope of the original constitution
I dont think he did. All we tried to do was to suggest that Trump bringing it up was crazy. That won't work in court.
Interesting that this never got anywhere with Obama...
Interesting...
The Court in Miami will rule that it is only necessary for a person to be born in the US, and ‘natural born citizenship’ does not derive from the parents.
The Court in Texas will rule that it is not necessary to born in the US, and that a person with a US parent is a ‘natural born citizen’
The two courts will be in contradiction and then it will have to go to the Supreme Court.
Or both courts could just punt and say the suits lack ‘standing’. Very interesting.
It may not look like it, but this is a gift horse for cruz. Sooner or later cruz is going to face this issue if he is on the ballot for president or veep. Better to fight it out against a poorly prepared and ill-eguipped opponent now on your turf than a well prepared opponent later on their turf.
Why is the date of his mother’s becoming a U. S. citizen relevant, if he was born in the U.S.A.?
Does place of birth hold more weight than the citizenship of the mother? Is an anchor baby’s citizenship greater than the baby of an American citizen mother born out of country?
These are important questions, not just for Ted Cruz, but for all foreign born children of American citizens such as missionaries, contractors, military, and those conducting business in foreign countries.
Cruz REALLY should have gotten ahead of this.
I’m going to say this:
I was born on a US Military Base in a US Military Hospital in the late sixties to two parents who were both born in the US. My father worked at the hospital where I was born and my mother lived there with him.
And I’m - wait for it - *naturalized*... I have papers and everything. And I learned while getting ready to go into the military that I could never be president because I wasn’t “natural born” I was “naturalized”...
So I’m not sure what that means for Cruz or anyone else - but that’s my personal story.
And my understanding is that it doesn’t matter what the laws are *now* but what they were when you were born.
I thought if you were born here, no matter where your parents are from, you are a citizen. If that isn’t the case, a significant number of Democrat voters are ineligible to vote. maybe even hold office.
*Sigh* ... The Rubio supporters tell us that it doesn’t matter who his parents were, as long as he was born in the country. The Cruz people tell us that it doesn’t matter whether he was born in the country, or who his father was, as long as his mother was born in the country. And most Republicans can’t even see the destruction that is being wrought by all of this continued erosion of constitutional standards.