Posted on 01/18/2016 9:50:00 AM PST by Red Steel
GOP presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum says that fellow GOP candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is "misinforming the public" about him being a "natural born" citizen and eligible to run for President of the United States.
The Des Moines Register's politics reporter Jennifer Jacobs posted on Twitter:
Ted Cruz is "misinforming the public" by saying "natural born" issue is "settled law," Rick Santorum says in Iowa. Supreme Court must rule. -Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 13, 2016
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
you forgot one important fact. the most important fact
Trump is ahead and all the rest are losing.
His birth certificate is Canadian.
Having a U.S. citizen mother shows is that he was eligible for a Congressional grant of citizenship, i.e. a naturalized citizen, the status conferred was “citizen”.
I think i’ll go with the opinion of a judge, and until such time as a judge does render an opinion that actually matter, all I see is a bunch of people with opinions that don’t matter.
So yeah, it’s unsettled until an authority settles it, and I sure would not like to see that happen at a time when we are no way to effectively respond to it.
God Bless you. I pray you don’t detract from the real issues and hamper efforts to get a decent president elected.
Ah, yes, the dimmest bulb in the Republican race weighs in. I knew Santorum back in his Senatorial/pre-Senatorial days. One thing I (and the members of his law firm) would not call him is either smart or a legal scholar.
The only way he does, is by subverting the constitution along with a mass of message managers who are folling a gullible public on the law.
Imagine, if you will, an awakening where the public concludes Obama really did usurp the office. He (and Congress) would be disgraced. All it takes is an awakening, and we don't need SCOTUS for that.
+100
“His birth certificate is Canadian.”
He had both. Canada giving him one doesn’t effect his US one.
“Do you think Cruz would withstand a qualification attack?”
Simply and easily and without any of the drama you suppose.
He does not have a U.S. birth certificate.
His parents can apply for a Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA).
That one had me laughing out loud! You are a funny guy. Do you do stand up too?
Sure he does, you need to go back and start at square one.
This country is in deep kimchee, in many ways, and if the people don't wake up, they will lose their nation.
OK. Whatever you say.
Settled Laws is starting to sound a lot like Settled Science.
But now, I think the GOP would take him out at the convention, on qualification grounds, if he came close to the nomination.
I say the intent is exactly the same.
This is the same Rick Santorum who in 2012 prematurely proclaimed George Zimmerman guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin, saying that Zimmerman had a “very sick mind” and “heinous intentions.”
We get sophomoric insults because even FR is seriously tainted with the degraded state of popular culture. There are way too many people who think insult is an effective form of discrediting an argument.
For example, I’m a Cruzer, and you would not believe the number of times I have been accused of terrible personal misdeeds in lieu of a substantive response to the issues I’ve raised. And from people who on any given day can make arguments I’d consider, if the craziness wasn’t mixed in with it. I’ve never seen it worse on FR. I’ve even begun to question the value of the time I spend here. No, I’ll probably never “opus out,” as they say. Too addicted. :) But it does give one pause. What is this need to make everything personal? It is irrational to me.
Peace,
SR
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