[2ndDivisionVet]

He must be doing a lot better in the internal polls than the ones we're allowed to see.

[Eva]

Cruz knows whether or not he can run. He’s a very good constitutional lawyer. Even if he doesn’t run, the thought of the possibility moves the conversation in the right direction The inside the Beltway GOP hate him.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

If the current muzzie poser can be pResident then so can Mr. Ted Cruz.

[TexasVoter]

Anwar al-Awlaki was born in 1971 to Yemeni citizens in Las Cruces, New Mexico. US Intelligence reports that, from the age of seven, al-Awlaki was raised abroad, becoming an enemy of America, indoctrinated by the highest powers of Al-Qaida and studying under the same teachers as Osama bin Laden. He eventually influenced various terrorists such as the Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan, and helped plan the thwarted attack of the “Underwear Bomber,” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Al-Awlaki’s phone number was found among the contact information of Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the man known as “the 20th hijacker” in the 9/11 attacks.

Those who suggest that there is no distinction between “citizen” and “Natural Born Citizen” would have us believe and accept that such a person might have been eligible to run for President of the US simply because he was born in America. According to defenders of the alleged eligibility of Barack Obama (or Marco Rubio, or Bobby Jindal), any person born on US soil to one or more alien citizens could be the leader of the free world. At some point, according to that path of logic, this should have included Anwar al-Awlaki.

So, to say that every person born a US citizen is also a natural born citizen is also to say that any foreign interest whose child was born in the US could be allowed to raise that child abroad as an enemy of the US and return that child to this country in time to meet the Constitution’s 14-year residency requirement for President.

[Menehune56]

The Obama Precedent would seem to make Cruz a natural born citizen (i.e. a citizen as a result of being born to a US citizen). However the strategy of the left will no doubt be to flog the issue next year to try to peel off enough hardline “birthers” to swing the election to their side.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

The nation of his birth and the issue of constitutional intent aside, the fact that Ted Cruz didn't bother to renounce his Canadian citizenship until last year is a deal killer for me. A president shouldn't have divided loyalties. I'd sooner vote for a Cambodian cab driver who renounced his old citizenship when he became an American than someone elected to the U.S. Senate who still hung onto another passport.

However, none of this is an issue since Senators make such lousy presidential candidates. Harrison, Kennedy, and Obama are the only sitting senators elected to the presidency of the fifty who have tried. That means that 47 senators have run for president and failed (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/23/AR2008012303783.html). Arguably, Obama shouldn't count since he won his first term against another sitting senator.