Posted on 04/04/2016 5:45:02 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Sen. Ted Cruz is out-hustling Donald Trump and looks set to ensure many Arizona delegates will defect to him in a convention floor fight.
The Texas senator, who ever since Iowa has played a stealthy ground game in contrast to Trump's chaotic populism, is taking steps to snatch the Republican presidential nomination from The Donald at the convention in July.
The New York businessman easily won last month's Arizona primary taking 47 percent to Cruz's 25 percent, scooping up all 58 of the state's delegates. That's nearly 5 percent of the 1,237 Trump needs for the nomination, and they're tied are to him on the first ballot.
But Cruz, exploiting deep opposition to Trump among grassroots Republicans, has been far more active in Arizona than Trump, insiders say. He's recruiting candidates for the available 55 delegate slots, that along with the other three delegate positions filled by party leaders, would be allowed to vote for him in a multi-ballot contested convention.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
He is ineligible to be President by virtue he is not a natural born citizen.
And he knows that, he described in 2012 when asked by someone in 2012 what the definition of a NBC is, and Cruz replied “Someone born on US soil to two US citizen parents”. I posted the article someplace on FR a while ago, or the relevant parts. From News With Views which for some weird reason is not allowed on FR. They have some good researchers.
That’s what I have read; IMHO because Cruz refuses to make public any of his citizenship docs other than his Canadian birth cert, or any of his mother except her American birth cert. If his mother had taken Canadian citizenship at the time of his birth, he wouldn’t be a US citizen of any kind. And I’ve read something about she would also have had to register his birth at a US embassy within 48 hours or something of thtat nature, do you know about that?
I will read the link too.
The fact that Cruz held a Canadian citizenship, and at that time Canada did not recognize dual citizenship, he is not even an American citizen.
Unless he became naturalized as an adult, but he said he renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2014. So what he is now, stateless? I wonder.
Ok, got it. I misunderstood your post.
The argument go as follows: He was given Canadian citizenship and at the time Canada did not recognize dual citizenship. Furthermore, his mother was voting in Canadian elections which means she had to have renounced her American citizenship and become a Canadian citizen herself.
And if he wanted all that to be cleared up, he’s release his sealed records. Things that make you go ‘hmmmmm’.
Yes, no he does not want to clear it up because he knows it will clearly show him to not be a natural born citizen, if a citizen at all.
What a wonderful gem of a post. Our founding was so blessed with men like Washington and Madison and even that genius liberal Franklin. Thank you for the reminder of just how great Washington was. Every word he wrote in your post is being played out in this election season.
Thank you for reading it. I really should post the whole address as a thread - probably somewhere in the bowels of FR - but it is so timely now, especially the parts about political parties, and foreign influence.
I just get so nerve wracked fearing that they will steal the nomination from Trump. I see only disaster if he does not get it.
To borrow a line from the Trumproid Continium ...”it’s a non-starter.
Ted has a habit of adding his name as sort of a “poison pill” in order to help kill bad legislation. Immigration is one of those examples.
My guess would be tax relief for home school folks, and the bill died.
Not sure. Only 3 issues really matter. Income, immigration and I-slam. Ted is right on all three for me.
I’ll take my chances that Cruz will be fine.
And not half the (fill in the blank) vote nationwide is needed. Near or over 50% in certain area's of the country are needed to win the electoral college vote.
And if “conservatives” don't look at demographic breakdowns like the demonrats do.
Say hello to Senate Majority leader Chuck E. Schumer.
No time to go wobbly.
The same is true for the honky vote...only the % is higher. Feel better? Jedi.
It’s not just in Arizona. He’s doing it in all the states. I never realized how you can stack the deck. I’m not sure they are planning to wait for the second round of voting, since they are going to block Trump delegates from the selection process.
I was called and I’m in North Carolina. I heard about calls in Michigan and other states. They are planning to keep Trump delegates from getting elected in the district conventions.
Liberals like to nuance their positions so you got that right too.
CGato
GAO: US debt approaching 100% of GDP; unmanageable, unsustainable
5 weeks later...OUR ANTENNA WENT UP, MY ANTENNA WENT UP...
Trumps boys called up the Schumer slime machine, called in the favor and WOO-LAH
CRUZ AND ALL OF HIS SUPPORTERS ARE NOW ANTISEMITIC!
This insidious and false claim SHALL NOT GO UNANSWERED.
Jedi. HOW LIBERAL IS IT?
You’re sounding more and more like a liberal nutcase propagandist.
I’ll give you a fact you should be upset about but I doubt you would be.
Ted Cruz’s own lawyer was a founder of a PAC that created an outrageous ad comparing Donald Trump and his supporters to Hitler and Nazis.
As someone else pointed out, this is stuff that comes out of nutcase liberal bastions like UC Berkley.
There is nothing conservative or principled about it but I doubt you denounce it and continue on with your propaganda.
CGato
But this charge of Ted Cruz...Ted f#$%ing Cruz and the conservative base being anti-Semitic? That came directly from the new face of the Trump campaign...Gweedoo the Golden Goodfella and his rino minions.
The new delegate hunter for Don-Don. Now when I woke up Saturday morning I and my fellow conservatives and Tea-Party types, were merely anti-Semites. I hadn't seen Meet the Depressed...I never do. But 72 hours after the first whispers of conservatives from Alaska to Maine hatin’ on the Jews, I saw this slick mouthpiece in a clip as I was walking by the tube.
Now, I'm a member of the GESTOPO. People who support, vote, and promote Ted Cruz are now Major f#$%ing Hogsteter of Hogans’ Hero's.
You are correct. Slurs and insidious slanders like the kind emanating from the Dark Tower at Trump Plaza are indeed the work of liberal left-wing socialist types.
Always has been...always will be.
Now me...me self...I'm pulling for Stalinist next....I never could grow a mustache like Old Commie Joe....but I'm willing to try. Perhaps we will all be Pol Pot next. Yep. Don-Don has opened up his liberal playbook...and why not...
He's opened his checkbook to these fine people for decades. Birds of a feather.
Propaganda indeed. IT'S ALL OUT THERE. Do I get a hat?...the Gestopo did have cool hats....
FRgards,
Jedi.
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