Posted on 09/29/2019 9:00:36 PM PDT by rintintin
en. Ted Cruz sounds ready to run for president again – in 2024.
Speaking to The Monitor after a breakfast session with reporters, the Texas Republican didn’t hesitate when asked if he would take another crack at the White House.
“Look, I hope to run again,” said Senator Cruz, who was the runner-up last time to Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination. “We came very, very close in 2016. And it’s the most fun I’ve ever had in my life.”
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
People born in one of the United States to U.S. citizen parents can prove that they have at least a one generation “buffer” between them and “the old country”, whatever foreign country that may be. Accordingly, the U.S.A. has the paramount claim to their loyalty and fidelity. With respect to any given one of them, if ever an international legal dispute arose as to which country’s armed forces such a person could or should be forced to serve in, the U.S.A. would win in a rout. As opposed to every other type of U.S. citizen (the late Senator John McCain included), no federal law, statutory or constitutional, exists or has ever been passed or enacted establishing, declaring or defining their citizenship status. And why would we ever need such a law? They represent the true raw material, the purest constitutive element, of our national polity. Some 70 percent of current U.S. citizens are the countrymen of which prominent New York lawyer John Jay was speaking when he wrote his famous letter to Constitutional Convention president George Washington in 1788 (”Permit me to hint...”) warning him that the role of Commander in Chief of the U.S. armed forces should never devolve upon anyone other than a natural-Born Citizen. Surely it is not that burdensome a restriction on us to be obliged by constitutional law to select our federal president every four years from among their number, and their number only. Let all ineligible would-be POTUS candidates wail and gnash their teeth in the murky outer darkness. We do not know where you are from. You are not and never were invited to this, our quadrennial national wedding feast.
First he needs to quit hiding behind his beard of shame, and if asked to speak at the next convention, to make damn sure it's an endorsement of President Trump.
I was a rabid fan, but after his ambiguous behavior...NO THANKS.
Ted, I wish you wouldn’t.
Cruz will do as good as Delblasio if he runs for president again...he had his chance to get it right, and he wasn’t capable.
Sorry L&L—I meant to say 1787 (the year of the framers’ convention in Philadelphia), not 1788 (the year when most of the state ratifying conventions were held).
No thanks Ted.
Go run in Canada.
Cruz blew it, thank God the true Cruz has been seen.
His post-Chicago castigation did it for me completely.
I will definitely vote for Cruz in 2024.
Fascinated by how nothing unites FR more than Cruz hate.
Cruz is conservative
I’d rather have DeSantis,but I’d be thrilled to press the lever for pence.
“Not a chance.
Pull your head out of the clouds and get a reality check.”
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Yeh, for sure. I’m a Texan, born and bred as we say down here. And, I will continue to support Cruz as Senator. Having said that, I don’t particularly like him. But, I Way past junior high popularity contests. I voted for Trump and will do so again. I’m all about substance over still and not vise versa...
Correction, *substance over style*
Nominating Cruz would be an exercise in futility.
Democrats may elect an ineligible usurper, but Republicans never will.
Cruz is Constitutionally suitable to run for office. His birth in Canada does not disqualify him to run for President.
The reactionaries had multiple court venues to prove this point wrong in 2016 and failed every time.
I am delighted to have him as my senator and will be delighted to have him as President in 2025.
Millions of us will not vote for an ineligible candidate, have at it if you want to lose.
Natural born citizens are NATURALLY citizens because they have ONE nationality and cannot be anything else.
Cruz was still a Canadian citizen until 2014.
As my dear Mother told me when I was young, “some people are so smart, they’re stupid”.
Ted, do your Job in the Senate. You nearly lost your Seat to a crazy America hating SOB in the great State of Texas.
Learn from History, don’t repeat it.
Cruz. 1,000,000 H-1B, can KMA.
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