What disturbs me most about Cruz and all lawyers, is they claim to be strict in interpreting the law.
B.S. Ted and his followers know damn well what Natural Born is. I know what a natural blonde is, I know what a natural left hander is, and I know what a natural born citizen is, and so did the fathers of this country.
ONLY a lawyer or politician could manipulate it into something else. It is disturbing that this so called “defender of the constitution” is willing to twist this around, and his followers are willing to twist this around to get the results that they want.
THIS is the problem with the country. Lawyers and politicians INTERPRETING the law to their best interest.
I’m not saying that no lawyer or judge will declare him “natural born”, but it’s not right, it’s not the intent. I am certain some judge or lawyer or politician will twist it around.
When up is down and black is white we’ve lost it all, and we are nearly at that point, when a candidate who is supposed to be a stalwart interpreter of the original intent of the constitution can play legal verbiage to his own political needs.
If he was a defender of the constitution, he would step down for the good of America and say “this was not their intent, and I strongly defend the Constitution”.
That would show backbone and character, and then I’d say he’d make a fine SC Justice.
After drilling through the bazillion birther threads here on FR, I believe your conclusion is shared by thousands of Americans. Ted ignoring this issue can do nothing but hurt his chances.
The NBC requirement is interpreted by most Americans to be the strictest standard of citizenship. They simply can not be wrong with the child born in the United States to two citizen parents interpretation. It won’t matter if a court sides with Ted, the voter’s interpretation is all that matters.
From Wikipedia:
After graduating from Princeton, Ted Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree. Referring to Cruz’s time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, “Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant!”