The fiction propagated about Barky was that he was born on US soil. Cruz was born in Canuckistan without a doubt and proudly maintained his hockey loving Canadian citizenship until late last week.
Making up $#!+ as you go along doesn't really help your candidate. It's not likely to persuade anyone that we should nominate and elect a real estate baron reality TV star to the highest executive political office in our Republic. The records of two celebrity governors elected with similar enthusiasm in California and Minnesota (the latter State also put a talentless comedian into the Senate) don't argue well for the idea.