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Quarter of Republicans think Cruz's birthplace disqualifies him for president: poll
Reuters ^ | Fri Jan 15, 2016 7:05am EST | Ginger Gibson

Posted on 01/15/2016 5:14:48 AM PST by GonzoII

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To: GonzoII

If Trump makes it past the primary I will likely support him, but I have a grave concern that Trump will be changing his tune after the Republican primary.

My concern is that Trump, being the smart guy he is, is simply playing to the galleries and were he to get elected it is very, very easy for me to see this guy going all kinds of squishy.


21 posted on 01/15/2016 5:30:51 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: bert

Because Liberals depend on Conservatives’ rule-keeping nature and use it as a weapon. They will pound on this relentlessly, not because it is true, but because they believe we will project our feelings about Obama on him.

Happens all the time.


22 posted on 01/15/2016 5:31:00 AM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: GonzoII

The donettes must be feeling pretty down in the trumps this morning after their giant orange muppet got shellacked in the debates last night - so they’re beating on the eligibility can again.


23 posted on 01/15/2016 5:32:15 AM PST by dead ("I'm up to my eyeball in virgin goats!" - Mullah Omar)
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To: Cboldt

LOL that cover sums up what people in the rest of the country believe people from New York City are like.


24 posted on 01/15/2016 5:32:35 AM PST by justlittleoleme (CRUZ OR LOSE)
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To: GonzoII

We have had a lesson ALREADY in what ignoring the Constitution’s NATURAL-BORN CITIZIN clause means.


25 posted on 01/15/2016 5:33:13 AM PST by Flintlock (-Our ballot box STOLEN, our soap box GONE, we're left with our bullet box, now.---)
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To: VanDeKoik
I don't understand your point. Cruz is better off if 1000 potential voters think he is qualified, than if 750 do. Granted, some of the voters will ditch their principles and vote for a person they nelieve is unqualified, still, it erodes the size of the pool of people to extract votes from.

Are you saying that's not logically valid?

26 posted on 01/15/2016 5:35:02 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: AdaGray

What did he say that you didn’t like?


27 posted on 01/15/2016 5:35:39 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Cboldt
Have you seen any other recent Daily News covers, like the one after the San Bernadino shootings that mocked Christian prayer as the problem, or the one where the named the NRA as traitors?

If you find yourself agreeing with the Daily News, check your premises.

28 posted on 01/15/2016 5:36:49 AM PST by dead ("I'm up to my eyeball in virgin goats!" - Mullah Omar)
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To: justlittleoleme
-- LOL that cover sums up what people in the rest of the country believe people from New York City are like. --

I think so too. It's rude and in your face rude. But if I'm Cruz, I'd rather not see the "go back to Canada" part. Now Cruz needs to regain lost ground on two fronts. He needs to be a uniter, and he needs to make his Canada BC a non-issue.

29 posted on 01/15/2016 5:37:54 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: GonzoII

Hey, here is a question.

Who would you trust to pick a Supreme Court Judge that is a strict Constitutionalist?

Face it, this will be the most important task of the next president.

Sarcasm/ Ah, who cares? We can just bring a bunch of judges together and play The Apprentice \sarcasm


30 posted on 01/15/2016 5:38:24 AM PST by mirvin
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To: C. Edmund Wright
"all that 25% are trumpsters anyway"

You may think that but the headline is clear "Quarter of Republicans" Trumpsters or not.

Add to that: "28 percent of independents responding he should be disqualified." How's that going to help him in the General or the primaries for that matter?

Also: "26 percent saying they were not sure." You can't count on these as die hard Cruz supporters.

It's time to move on.

31 posted on 01/15/2016 5:38:33 AM PST by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: GonzoII

The only thing that would clear this up is a Supreme Court ruling.
Arguing ‘experts’ do him no good and distracts from his campaigning.

Big mistake not to have put this into court already- maybe by a friendly challenge from the Texas Secretary of State.


32 posted on 01/15/2016 5:39:06 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Impy; Liz; Greetings_Puny_Humans

I believe that Cruz is eligible [after I learned that Breitbart’s bogus drive-by report was debunked], but when we claim something we believe, it doesn’t mean a blasted thing.

If 1/4 of republicans aren’t sure, then ALL democrats WILL be sure that he is not eligible. And independents? A gamble.

[More coming up. Sure I posted more on this than you care to read.]


33 posted on 01/15/2016 5:40:44 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (1000 muslim migrant gang-rapists in Germany -- Trump helped trigger protests.)
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To: dead

I’m not agreeing with it. Just observing what it says. And I will confess to ingnorance on the usual track of the rag. I don’t read any paper or pundit regularly. My contact with the press is mostly what is posted at FR, and following loacl stories like the Waco biker shootout. Otherwise my contact is driven by google’s choices, not random, but not selected by me.


34 posted on 01/15/2016 5:41:15 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: AdaGray

The Cruz attack on Trump being “a New Yorker” has backfired massively, and destroyed his (Cruz) chance at becoming Trump running mate for VPUS. Cruz is toast....no, burnt toast!!! Not too bright upstairs. Did you notice how quickly Nikkin Haley bowed at the feet of Donald Trump...begging for forgiveness for her mouthing off at the SOTU speech??? She will never listen to Mitch McConnell & Paul Ryan, ever again!!! McConnell shoould be thrown out today...as GOP leader in the Senate. He and Ryan are firmly in bed with Obama & Clinton!!!

GO DONALD TRUMP!!!! And......thanks.....Mr. Trump for the free tickets in Iowa, to the great movie “13 Hours” which depicts how Obama, Clinton and the Democrat low life vermin...stood by while our USA ambassador and three other Americans were slaughtered by Libyan terrorists!!!


35 posted on 01/15/2016 5:42:44 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat Hillary Clinton & totally destroy the entire Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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To: Psalm 73

You need to reread the blurb. Only 47% think he’s qualified. Twenty-six percent aren’t sure, the rest: not qualified.


36 posted on 01/15/2016 5:42:50 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: GonzoII
If this poll is true, then Trump has fatally wounded Cruz.

But he has also precluded himself from choosing Cruz as his VP, unless he can perform a convincing "declaratory judgment" in court to satisfy everyone. But even that may not be enough.

37 posted on 01/15/2016 5:43:23 AM PST by montag813
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To: GonzoII

You mean the GOP-E quarter?


38 posted on 01/15/2016 5:43:41 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Liz; Greetings_Puny_Humans

The Establishment Republicans, those snakes, are influential among low-information voters, especially when they stab us in the back.

And creeps like Professor Laurence Tribe are influential over the senate AND over half of the House.

Even Rush says natural born status is a complex constitutional matter.

If 1/4 of republicans aren’t sure, the democrats WILL be sure. They will quote McStain, they will quote Majority Leader Mc-Conman. They will quote Rand Paul. And they will quote others.

Only two ways to clear this up ...

[You know already what I’ll post next. FRegards ....]


39 posted on 01/15/2016 5:43:46 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (1000 muslim migrant gang-rapists in Germany -- Trump helped trigger protests.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Yup.


40 posted on 01/15/2016 5:44:14 AM PST by Obadiah
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