Posted on 01/29/2016 5:00:11 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Don't choose your candidate based on who you'd prefer to have a beer with, but whom you trust most to remain aligned with your principles. For me, that's Ted Cruz.
Earlier in the primary season, when the frontrunners were just beginning to emerge, I expressed concern that Cruz was untrustworthy. It wasn't just my vaguely bitter recollection of Cruz's actions in the government shutdown fiasco, but something about his personality--the inflection of his voice, the way he too often lowered it to a whisper, the way he paced back and forth across the stage like a fired-up Baptist preacher going off his sermon notes, except I knew that he carefully chose every talking point, every word.
Although I knew Cruz has one of the highest-rated conservative records in the race (98 percent lifetime average from the Heritage Foundation), I was convinced he'd be unable to build the necessary coalitions to "get things done," much less win the election, because he wasn't a team player. Not only that, I thought I couldn't trust him.
Cruz Is Unlikable, But Principled
My beliefs about Cruz' methods and personality began to change after reading two articles. The first was from National Review editor Rich Lowry, who contended that Cruz was being compared to the wrong twentieth-century presidential candidate. Lowry says Cruz isn't destined to lose in a landslide like Goldwater, but that he is much more like Richard Nixon, minus the paranoia, plus a more heavily defined ideology.
The two are similar in personality: "Cruz is cut from roughly similar cloth. He wears his ambition on his sleeve and isn't highly charismatic or relatable. In high school, he could've been voted most likely to be seen walking on the beach in his dress shoes....
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Imagine
"CNN clips."
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It certainly isn't like the old days 'round here.
Do you have links to Cruz’s US Birth Certificate?
How about other documents?
If Ted is not eligible, like and dislike matter not
I guess you’d go for a Saudi Prince POTUS over Trump?
-- If Ted is not eligible, like and dislike matter not --
Not everybody is as principled as you are. Many people (correctly) believe that the government has been subverted already, so "playing by the rule of law" is a chump's gambit.
I might yet vote for Trump, but if I do it will be with the very clear knowledge of who and what he is.
I’ll take the wall if I can get it from him and then cut him off at the knees in a heartbeat without a second thought.
If I vote for Trump it will be to use him, not to offer myself up as a naive and blind supporter.
I'm not. I love Ted Cruz. I just don't think he can win and I know that Trump will. It's that simple.
Jus soli.
Happersett v minor
Let’s see: If you do not like female Hillary, you are sexist. If you do not like half-black Obama, you are racist. If you do not like Hispanic Cruz you are ....?
“I just don’t think he can win and I know that Trump will. It’s that simple. “
Wow, just wow. Are you old enough to be around when Reagan was running for President?
“I’m not going to take your word on that one.”
Please don’t take my word on that, and don’t take the word of other people on that either. Read the statutes and the case law of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Ted Cruz was born in Canada in 1970, and the law which authorized Ted Cruz to acquire U.S. citizenship on the basis of his mother being an alleged U.S. citizen was the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952 which said:
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66 Stat. Public Law 414 - June 27, 1952. TITLE III - NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION. Chapter 1 - Nationality at Birth and by Collective Naturalization. NATIONALS AND CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES AT BIRTH. Sec. 301. (a) The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth; . . . (7) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than ten years, at lest five of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years: Provided, That any periods of honorable service in the Armed Forces of the United States by such citizen parent may be included in computing the physical presence requirements of this paragraph.
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Note this law naturalizes a child born abroad with a parent who is a U.S. citizen, so such a child and Ted Cruz are naturalized U.S. citizens by the authority of this law.
The U.S. State Department Foreign Affairs Manual acknowledges that immigration and naturalization law and says such a child and Ted Cruz were born abroad and naturalized as U.S. citizens.
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U.S. Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual Volume 7
Consular Affairs. 7 FAM 1151 INTRODUCTION... b. 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(23); INA 101(a)(23)) defines naturalization as the conferring of nationality of a state upon a person after birth by any means whatsoever. . . For the purposes of this subchapter naturalization includes:... (5) “Automatic†acquisition of U.S. citizenship after birth, a form of naturalization by certain children born abroad to U.S. citizen parents or children adopted abroad by U.S. citizen parents.
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[The Supreme Court of the United States also decided a child born abroad such as Ted Cruz can only “become a citizen by being naturalized.”
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United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649, 18 S.Ct. 456, 42 L.Ed. said “A person born out of the jurisdiction of the United States can only become a citizen by being naturalized....”
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Ted Cruz was born in Canada in 1970, and the law which authorized Ted Cruz to acquire U.S. citizenship on the basis of his mother being an alleged U.S. citizen was the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952 which said:
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66 Stat. Public Law 414 - June 27, 1952. TITLE III - NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION. Chapter 1 - Nationality at Birth and by Collective Naturalization. NATIONALS AND CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES AT BIRTH. Sec. 301. (a) The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth; . . . (7) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than ten years, at lest five of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years: Provided, That any periods of honorable service in the Armed Forces of the United States by such citizen parent may be included in computing the physical presence requirements of this paragraph.
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Note this law naturalizes a child born abroad with a parent who is a U.S. citizen, so such a child and Ted Cruz are naturalized U.S. citizens by the authority of this law.
The U.S. State Department Foreign Affairs Manual acknowledges that immigration and naturalization law and says such a child and Ted Cruz were born abroad and naturalized as U.S. citizens.
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U.S. Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual Volume 7
Consular Affairs. 7 FAM 1151 INTRODUCTION... b. 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(23); INA 101(a)(23)) defines naturalization as the conferring of nationality of a state upon a person after birth by any means whatsoever. . . For the purposes of this subchapter naturalization includes:... (5) “Automatic†acquisition of U.S. citizenship after birth, a form of naturalization by certain children born abroad to U.S. citizen parents or children adopted abroad by U.S. citizen parents.
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[The Supreme Court of the United States also decided a child born abroad such as Ted Cruz can only “become a citizen by being naturalized.â€
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United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649, 18 S.Ct. 456, 42 L.Ed. said “A person born out of the jurisdiction of the United States can only become a citizen by being naturalized....â€
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Principled. Period. It’s not a popularity contest. We’ve tried that the past 7 years and it doesn’t work. Cruz doesn’t have Greek columns behind him or use a YUGE amount of adjectives when he speaks ....SO WHAT!? Can we please get past the superficial nonsense. I’ll vote for Trump if it comes down to that, because the left of the left cannot win.
That'll never do with this electorate.
Many of us agree, that is ridiculous.
Perhaps the more immediate issue here is:
Whether the U.S. should elect as president someone born in another country to a non-American citizen.
It sounds crazy on its face, and certainly under no theory would the founders have intended such. It is unbelievable that an attorney well-versed in the Constitution would propose such a thing.
I have to pay taxes..but can never vote??" Absurd.
Write him off because he is a lying weasel who is owned by Goldman and the gay marriage lobby - sometimes. Then again he is owned by the Wallbuilder gang and Pastor Kevin Swanson other times.
If no one liked him, he couldn't have come from behind to beat David Dewhurst, the favored GOPe choice, for Senate in 2012, and he wouldn't be No. 2 in the race for the presidential nomination. No, those who dislike him are the McConnells, the McCains, the Orrin Hatches, and their ilk.
Has anything about this election been like any of the others? The momentum is clearly on Trump’s side at the moment and there was an article yesterday about how Trump’s ‘ground game’ (that everyone said he didn’t have) suddenly might be bigger than Cruz’.
The fact that someone felt the need to write an article like this one indicates serious problems with Cruz. I know you don’t want to hear that and I wouldn’t either if it had been an article about Fred Thompson back in the day, but it’s true.
“Don’t Write Off Ted Cruz Because You Don’t Like Him”
For me, it’s more that he cannot win in November, which is why I’m voting for Trump. Cruz is still the best conservative out there, just cannot connect well and didn’t do well handling the assault last night, whereas either Trump would have dealt with it in some funny way, or any damage would have slithered right off him.
Cruz has a lot of years left to get himself (and the country) ready for a strong run...hopefully we see him again, soon.
When President Trump pulls a Schwarzenegger and turns hard left, embracing and expanding Obama's agenda, you'll undoubtedly still be singing his praises.
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