[ifinnegan]

It’s funny.

Earlier I saw a poster call Cruz an anchor baby.

I thought that was weird because anchor baby means born on US soil to non-citizens who come just to get US citizenship for the kid.

Lots of Chinese Communist kids are US citizens, for example. And illegal alien kids are citizens because of it. All ostensibly “natural born”.

It’s the opposite of Ted Cruz. It made no sense.

Now I know why the poster said it. Just mimicking Trump.

[mmichaels1970]

I thought that was weird because anchor baby means born on US soil to non-citizens who come just to get US citizenship for the kid....

It's the opposite of Ted Cruz. It made no sense.

I think that was the point of the poster and Trump. Trump was calling Cruz an anchor baby of Canada's, not of the U.S. Basically saying Trump's mom went across the border into Canada and had a baby that was made a Canadian citizen.

I think the Canadian stuff is over the top too. But it sure does get under people's skin, I think especially Cruz's. I think Cruz should just get the darned declaratory statement and get it over with. Should have done it three weeks ago.

[Yaelle]

Trump was meaning that Cruz would be a Canadian anchor baby. But again, that does not fit. His parents were legally in Canada. He probably didn’t like Cruz’s bit on him last night so this is his attempt to fight back, but it’s weak and stupid, and I’m for Trump.

[ez]

It makes sense from the standpoint that if Ted is an anchor baby, he is a CANADIAN anchor baby.