Posted on 08/12/2013 9:08:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
There are no polls showing Ted Cruz leading the 2016 Republican presidential field in the Iowa. A PPP survey last month found Cruz in sixth place in the state, behind Rand Paul, Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, and Marco Rubio. But after a particularly well-received appearance at a conservative event in Ames, Iowa over the weekend, there seems little doubt that Cruz, who has been in the U.S. Senate all of eight months, is zooming toward the front of the GOP pack in the nation’s first-voting state.
The gathering, sponsored by the social conservative organization Family Leader, featured appearances by Rick Santorum, winner of the 2012 Republican caucuses, and Cruz, along with billionaire gadfly Donald Trump. From all accounts, Santorum was a popular speaker; the social conservative crowd appreciated not only his positions but the enormous effort he has made to get to know the state of Iowa and its conservative residents.
But Santorum’s welcome could not compare to the wildly enthusiastic reception for Cruz. Joined by his pastor father, Rafael Cruz — he was a big hit, too — the Texas freshman senator wowed the crowd, and then wowed them again.
“The reception for Santorum was appreciative, consistent, and steady,” Bob Vander Plaats, head of the Family Leader and organizer of the event, told me via email. “The anticipation for and reception of Cruz was over the top. He was propelled by an amazing speech by his father, Rafael. All that said, Cruz delivered. Most walked away talking Cruz!”
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We’ll see. I’m rooting for Cruz.
Obama has nothing to do with Ted Cruz’s own position on his own eligibility. Had there never been an Obama, Ted Cruz is eligible and would explain it the same way, regardless of others’ circumstances.
When you link it with Obama, you’ve gone so far off the track of the issue of “natural born” and what that means, that the issue isn’t even rationally debatable.
I’ll take Ted Cruz on the defintion of “natural born” and his eligibility over the misinformed daily opines, any time, any place.
Just to have fun throwing this in, those who are the most adamant that Cruz is not natural born are actually - if you follow out the “logic” of what they’re claiming - saying that Cruz is not even an American. Not any kind of American.
Even if they don’t use those words, and even if they feign shock and surprise that they are claiming that whether intentionally or not, that IS the end result of their claim he can’t run.
The same claims made against his presidential eligibility would - if true - make him a foreigner. Either Canadian or Cuban - take your silly pick, or the only other option, A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY.
Whereas Cruz says you’re either a citizen when you are born, or else you must become naturalized later on, to be an American citizen.
Cruz and most legal scholars say being the offspring of an American citizen mother who was of legal age is the controlling factor making him a citizen at birth (natural born).
Not the soil of Canada, not the ancestral land of Cuba, not the naturalized father.
I’m advancing CRUZ’S position on the matter. Will I debate it with the outliers on FR? No, why should I? Cruz can handle it fine, himself, and has plenty of qualified help on the issue.
I don't think where Cruz was born will be an issue. The issue will be one citizen parent which is what he had, versus a two citizen parent requirement.
Don’t kid yourself, the circular firing squad hasn’t even loaded their weapons yet.
First, there will be the outcry from conservatives over his birth status, and then the e-GOP will tell us who our canddiates are going to be.
Let’s see...isn’t it about Jebbies turn??
Cruz’s mom was born in Delaware. Of course that brings to mind all kinds of Biden jokes, but Biden was actually born in Pennsylvania....
Now, Sarah Palin - I'd vote for her again in a heartthrob. :-)
Is Ted Cruz the 2016 GOP frontrunner?
Yes.. he is in my house!
STOP IT! He was born in CANADA!
“Oh never mind. Did my research. Appears his Mom was an American citizen at the time. That solves it.”
WHAT? You are uninformed.
HE WAS NOT BORN ON U.S. SOIL, THAT solves it.
” I wasn’t sure about McCain, though he was born on U.S. territory in the Canal Zone.”
NOOOOOOO he wasn’t The canal zone never was U.S. Territory and McCain was born in the city of Colon, which specifically was not under U.S. control.
OMG, the ignorance of the American people is breathtaking.
” Federal citizenship wasn’t clearly established until the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868”
This is absolute BULL$HIT. The 14th amendment has NOTHING to do with Article II, Section 1, clause 5. “Natural Born Citizen” REQUIREMENT for president. Find the term “Natural Born Citizen” in the 14th amendment and I’ll give you a million dollars.
” So under federal law, Cruz was born an American citizen by virtue of his mother.”
IT IS NOT ABOUT CRUZ BEING A “CITIZEN”!
It’s about the constitutional requirement that the president has to be a “Natural Born Citizen” Article II, Section 1, Clause 5.
Posting these LIES twice doesn’t make it any more true.
Cruz is ok, but he is funny looking. I’m not a big fan. Even if I were, I want my president to be constitutionally eligible. Call me old fashioned, but I still believe in the constitution and the founders and framers. It’s bad enough that we have had TWO ineligible presidents, let’s not throw out the constitution based on that. Forty-two others were eligible.
According to the official obamabio, that makes him a natural born Canadian.
The only way there is no controversy about a person's citizenship, resulting due to the circumstances of their birth, is if they are born in the country that both parents are citizens of when that child is born.
This is the ONLY circumstance where all people and nations agree about the person's citizenship. No law or treaty required needed. This has always been so, no matter if citizenship comes from where you were born or if from your Father or if citizenship comes from your mother.
Whatever they or we choose to call the most pure of all citizenship status, born in country to citizen parents (father in their time) is what the FFs meant with the eligibility requirement: "Natural Born Citizen".
What was the FFs' intent for this sole office holder, with command of the military, in needing/requiring this purest level of citizenship? What were they trying to accomplish?
What is meant by the only exception to that NBC status?
They weren't being arbitrary about it. This was a Revolution against the King and they took loyalty and American citizenship seriously. Remember what they did to hero Ben Arnold.
Had we heeded their requirement, we would have avoided both McCain and obama! Instead, we argue like children over the meaning of "is".
Cruz is, and will be shown to be, right about the meaning of natural born (citizen at birth, not by naturalization).
And yeah, he’ll have to make it without your vote.
Sniff...
Sob!
Not.
Inform yourself.
It ain’t the soil.
RE: It’s bad enough that we have had TWO ineligible presidents
Who was the other one?
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