‘Cruz said that some of the more extreme birthers think that, not that he does.’
That is not true. No one believes this because it is an impossibility. After the debate I asked Cruz supporters to provide examples of birthers who believe this. None could. Not only that, but what IF you could find some halfwit with an IQ of 80 who believes it? So what??? You can find halfwits who believe a lot of nonsensical, impossible things. What does that prove? That some people have well below average IQ?
It was a strawman on Cruz’ part. The EXACT type of strawman Obama depends on. “Some say X,” Obama drones—when in reality nobody in the world says X. It’s just Obama’s mentally deficient way of making a stupid point no intelligent person would be caught dead making to begin with.
In Cruz’ case, he wanted to boorishly, nastily and illogically drag Trump’s mother into it. So he created a class of birthers that doesn’t exist and used it to try to get a rise out of Trump. And failed.
Debate-tactic-wise, it was stupid off the charts.
I just realized I never specified the thing Cruz claims some birthers believe. Namely, that the ONLY way to get a Natural Born Citizen is via two NBCs, whose parents were NBCs, whose parents were NBCs, etc., on out to infinity. It is a stupid, impossible claim that no real life so-called birther makes.
Then lets look at the exact text from the debate...
"I would note that the birther theories that Donald has been relying on - the more extreme ones insist that you must not only be born on U.S. soil, but have two parents born on U.S. soil."
Every word I said was true. Thank you.
I said this ---> "Cruz said that some of the more extreme birthers think that, not that he does."
So he created a class of birthers that doesn’t exist
Then you says "You can find halfwits who believe a lot of nonsensical, impossible things. What does that prove?"
Listen, I gave up on the Obama birther threads because there was people that believed all kinds of things and it wasn't worth my time to suddenly become a unpaid lawyer in the debate. Personally I would like both parents to be natural born on US soil, but that is not what is required. There is more requirement for a Congressman than for President. Cruz basically has a case like Obama had, without the mother age issue. Obama got a pass, Cruz should too. I believe my IQ is probable better than 80, but never have been tested (did score an 28 on my ACT college entrance test). Not too impressive since dad scored the highest in the state the year he took it.
Trumps mother was naturalized before he was born in America so he had two citizen parents.