“No, I was right there, commenting like others on the debate thread during it. Cruz made Trump look like an idiot, and if Ted wasn’t such a gentleman, could of made it even worse.”
Ted Cruz embarrassed himself by getting caught in his lies, claiming the natural born citizen controversy was required the parents of a natural born citizen to also be natural born citizens. It is impossible for the parents to always be natural born citizens to confer natural born citizenship, because the first generation of parents cannot possibly be natural born citizens. Ted Cruz also destroyed his own credibility in a number of other ways without any need for Trump to say anything, especially with his not to be believed claims the loans and his Canadian citizenship were oversights. It simply is not possible for an attorney-at-law of his reputation to fail to notice his birth certificate made him a Canadian citizen.
Save your lies for someone that hasn't followed this. Cruz said that some of the more extreme birthers think that, not that he does.
If that were the case then he just announced to the whole world that he isn't qualified for the office and it didn't even register to him that he did it.
“... claiming the natural born citizen controversy was required the parents of a natural born citizen to also be natural born citizens.”
Cruz prefaced that comment with something like “some even say that...”. I guess to point out how goofy they all are.
Oops - found it. From the Jan. 15th debate:
Cruz:
“If an American missionary has a child abroad, that child is a natural-born citizen. That’s why George Romney, Mitt’s dad, was eligible to run for president, even though he was born in Mexico.
At the end of the day, the legal issue is quite straightforward, but I would note that the birther theories that Donald has been relying on — some of 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.
Under that theory, not only would I be disqualified, Marco Rubio would be disqualified, Bobby Jindal would be disqualified and, interestingly enough, Donald J. Trump would be disqualified.”