Funny that both objections so far come from Trumpets. I thought you folks were 100% sure that Don will win this going away? How many more will there be?
I don’t answer for “you folks”, just me. I’ve said all along I think the courts would probably rule for Cruz, but it’s no sure thing. If I had to lay odds I would say 2 to 1 Cruz would win. However it would be a nightmare either way if Cruz was nominated. I believe some Democrat state officials would refuse to put Cruz on the ballot in key states, forcing him to go to court. With appeals, that could drag on and put the whole election into chaos. Gore v, Bush 2000 on steroids.
It will probably be moot in a few weeks anyway because Trump will have the nomination locked up.
That fact is that Cruz was a Canadian citizen until 1 1/2 years ago, when he was 43 years old. I don’t think that is what the founders had in mind as somebody they would want for the Presidency. Cruz himself is a good man but what happens when we get the same situation with a guy who is a radical and was a citizen of Iran until 2 years before an election? Will you still be good with it then?
Ted Cruz’s ineligibility has nothing to do with Donald Trump. He’s an affront to constitutional conservatism as are his supporters.
I. GOLF CHEAT
Americans are a forgiving people. They'll forgive a guy who cheats in business or on his wife. (Trump's been accused of both.) But will they forgive a man who cheats at golf? According to the Washington Post's Ben Terris, Trump is in trouble if they don't.
Despite Trump's allegedly having a 4 handicap and owning scores of golf courses ("the best in the world"), he plays about as straight as a corkscrew. When Alice Cooper was asked who is the worst celebrity golf cheat he's ever played with, he responded, "I played with Donald Trump one time. That's all I'm going to say."
Sportswriter Rick Reilly, who played golf with Trump for his book Who's Your Caddy?, gave Trump an 11 on a 10-point cheating scale, telling the Post that Trump fabricated scores on his scorecard, called gimmes on chip shots, and conceded putts to himself by raking his ball into the hole rather than actually putt-ing. "He rakes like my gardener!" Reilly said.
When Mark Mulvoy, then-managing editor of Sports Illustrated, played golf with Trump in the mid-'90s, the two were forced to take cover when a storm rolled in. After the rain subsided, Mulvoy returned to the green to see a ball that he didn't remember 10 feet away from the pin. When he asked whose ball it was, Trump replied, "That's me."
"Give me a f-ing break," Mulvoy told Trump. "You've been hacking away in the ....weeds all day. You do not lie there." According to Mulvoy's recollection to the Post, Trump responded: "Ahh, the guys I play with cheat all the time. I have to cheat just to keep up with them."
Trump, for his part, denied knowing who Mulvoy is, claimed never to have played with Alice Cooper, and of Reilly, he said, "I always thought he was a terrible writer. I absolutely killed him, and he wrote very inaccurately."
Maybe. Or maybe cheating jibes with Trump's worldview. As Trump told Timothy O'Brien in TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald: "If you don't win, you can't get away with it. And I win, I win. I always win. In the end, I always win, whether it's in golf, whether it's in tennis, whether it's in life." -- Nine Tales of Trump at his Trumpiest