OTOH, real issues include:
1. Who will be appointed to SCOTUS and other judgeships and what are the mandatory minima of their ideological qualifications?
2. Rebuilding the American military as Reagan did.
3. Cutting the fat out of the federal budget without removing muscle and sinew.
4. Militantly applying the 2nd Amendment RTKBA.
5. Jettisoning sovereignty sapping "trade deals" and restoring the industrial base of the USA, the world be dam*ned.
6. Reviewing the entire relationship between the US and the UN and cutting off the UN's allowance wherever possible and its powers as well.
7. Getting control over the GOP-E Congressional "leadership" and rank and file, requiring that they represent the American people instead of Wall Street, K Street and the US Chamber of Crony Commerce and their respective ilk.
8. Putting a stop to the Holocaust of 60+ million surgically slaughtered innocent babies pursuant to Herod Blackmun and SCOTUS Almighty.
9. Marriage: One man, one woman only.
10. An immediate end to CORE curriculum transmission of academic incompetence and politically correct Marxist propaganda to poison future generations.
Many more available on request but NBC is not one of them.
Birthers can relieve their anal retentiveness by taking a pound of Ex-Lax or a couple of quarts of Miralax solution. They will feel a lot better a few hours later and we will all be relieved of Birtherism which was an irrelevant bore when aimed at Obozo much less at Ted Cruz.
That Cruz is naturalized is an issue. The law says he is, and you say he isn't.
You'd make an NBC of a child born and raised in Afgahistan, of US citizen Polly Pinhead and Achmed the bomber, and you'd defend that conclusion by saying this is what the US constitution says.
BTW, I share your frustration with the state of the law and public policy on those substantive issues.