No one knows this better than Donald.
Posted on 01/20/2016 2:21:12 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Donald Trump says Ted Cruz is a "nasty guy." The Texan's Senate colleagues agree. Yet here's the surprise from watching Cruz on the campaign trail: Ideology aside, he comes off as ... rather likable....
I knew before seeing Cruz on the stump that he is smart - dangerously so from my ideological perspective. I knew from watching him operate in Washington that he is ruthlessly ambitious. Seeing him in action, it's clear he's adept at retail politics as well.
Cruz knows how to connect with an audience; to soften people up with laugh lines and a smattering of scripture; to deliver his message with digestible details and a warning that aims at Trump without, for the most part, explicitly naming him: Judge candidates based on what they've actually done, not what they promise.
In one telling moment in Washington, N.H., a young mother of four challenged Cruz about whether he would provide paid family leave. His eventual answer boiled down to nothing: "Politicians love to campaign on giving away free stuff," but, as with the minimum wage, market forces mean such intervention would hurt workers, not help them.
But he leavened this response with personal questions (How old? Boys or girls?) and, believe it or not, empathy: He knows about being the "baby brother with two older sisters"; he understands the "hard challenge" of juggling work and family. The woman may have left unconvinced, but Cruz's deft response revealed a politician both skillful and relatable. The crowd applauded.
Because Trump and Cruz seem to be competing for the angry-outsider lane, I expected voters at Cruz events here to be torn between the two. Instead, I was struck by the still-undecided voters I met who had rejected Trump, using words like "antics" and "volatile" to describe him...
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I’m not changing a word, cupcake.
I’m not “concerned” about Cruz. I think he is putting the GOP in great peril, should he somehow win the nomination. And now that 40% of the judges on the Federal bench are Obama appointees, I’m not interested in rolling the dice to satisfy this cat’s ego.
I have said many times that I prefer Trump for POTUS but Cruz for SCOTUS. This is a skill-set election for me. I’ve said that, too. My posts are neither hidden nor secret - anyone can find them.
I’m not concern trolling, pretending to worry about something or someone, while not really giving a crap or caring about an opposite outcome. I am WARNING people that this won’t end well.
There is no good thing that will come from a Cruz nomination, we’ll either be sued to smithereens in front of Obama judges, or he’ll get his ass kicked from sea to shining sea.
No upside at all.
“cupcake”
Ahhhh..
Lol
They just can’t help themselves.
Oh and one more thing before I go to bed....
Should the unthinkable happen, and Cruz is the nominee, we will have have the following to look forward to:
We’ll awake the drug-induced left who have never recovered from the Bush v. Gore thing; Cruz was one of the lead attorneys on this. Oh, the commercials we will get to see. (never mind the legal decision was correct) The media will hammer this 24/7.
I need an aspirin just thinking about this.
Sadly so.
That is a term of affection. My first choice was Walker, also.
:)
So, you’d surrender without a fight to avoid a fight?
That’s what Congress is accused of.
Good night.
Then I will accept your endearment and wish you sweet dreams.
He was an American citizen at birth but he was a natural born Canadian citizen at birth. The Canadian law simply reinforces what the English common law states, what our founders stated, and what has been the opinion expressed in multiple SCOTUS decisions-that a natural born citizen is a citizenship established by virtue of the place of birth and by nothing more or nothing less.
No one knows this better than Donald.
I welcome honest debate of ideas. The rest is fluff.
Exactly the reason I posted about the subject. I am not hunting for places to post about this sad state of affairs but when I see someone declaring its settled and this is why I think it unfair to the truth not to point out why that isn't so.
No, I’m so sorry but no.
Ted Cruz, born of an American mother was entitled to apply for citizenship at birth. His mother or later he needed to provide documentation including his Canadian BC, his Mother’s BC, her proofs of residency etc. They would be vetted by the Consulate or if done later by the Dept Of Naturalization and he would be awarded citizenship if he met the criterion for citizenship. Ted Cruz has citizenship by statute not natural born citizenship.
For example: In Inglis v. Sailors' Snug Harbor (1833), 3 Pet. 99, in which the plaintiff was born in the city of New York about the time of the Declaration of Independence, the justices of this court (while differing in opinion upon other points) all agreed that the law of England as to citizenship by birth was the law of the English Colonies in America. Mr. Justice Thompson, speaking for the majority of the court, said:
It is universally admitted, both in the English courts and in those of our own country, that all persons born within the Colonies of North America, whilst subject to the Crown of Great Britain, are natural-born British subjects.
This is also expressed in that SCOTUS opinion:
The notion that there is any common law principle to naturalize the children born in foreign countries, of native-born American father and mother, father or mother, must be discarded. There is not, and never was, any such common law principle.
As is this:
Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children, even of aliens, born in a country while the parents are resident there under the protection of the government and owing a temporary allegiance thereto, are subjects by birth.
and this:
"The right of citizenship never descends in the legal sense, either by the common law or under the common naturalization acts. It is incident to birth in the country, or it is given personally by statute. The child of an alien, if born in the country, is as much a citizen as the natural born child of a citizen, and by operation of the same principle. "
Before that, in his dissenting opinion of the Dred Scott decision, Justice Curtis spoke of NBCs and article II, section I, clause 5 specifically and stated:
The first section of the second article of the Constitution uses the language, a natural-born citizen. It thus assumes that citizenship may be acquired by birth. Undoubtedly, this language of the Constitution was used in reference to that principle of public law, well understood in this country at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, which referred citizenship to the place of birth.
“Thank-yous” to you and your fellow thread hijackers for bumping the thread.
Bump!
“Thank-yous” to you and your fellow thread hijackers for bumping the thread.
Bump!
empathy - the feeling that you understand and share another person’s experiences and emotions; the ability to share someone else’s feelings
Mine too! GO TRUMP!
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