Posted on 02/22/2016 5:33:43 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Your charts mean nothing unless you can tell us how many votes were Dem cross over and who they went for. States like S Carolina that allow crossover voting are suspect in every way.
That's false.
He renounced the Canadian citizenship only the past year or two after the media leaked it.
The formal process Cruz undertook was to dispel any notion that because Canadian law could consider him citizen - that he does not, and has never entertained or claimed such a right under their laws. Show me that "dual citizenship" proof.
Cruz is looking more and more like the late unlamented prez candidate,
ex-Texas Gov Rick Perry---two stealth candidates trusting Texans hardly knew.
At first, Cruz (like Perry) looked good....prez material, even. Then candidate Cruz (like Perry) began admitting things that trusting Texans knew nothing about.
Perry shocked his constituents when he admitted in a debate that he was using trusting Texans tax dollars to give illegals in-state tuition. Perry also installed the country's first Sharia Court in Texas....active to this day.
Cruz heaped on the surprises:
<><> I didn't know I was a Canadian citizen when I ran for the Senate until the media exposed it.
<><> I told trusting Texas voters wifey and I were liquidating family assets so I could get into the Senate.
<><> I didnt know I was supposed to tell the FEC I borrowed over a million from my Wall Street margin accounts to fund my campaign.
<><> I told Mark Levin the borrowed funds were used for campaign ads....but I didn't report this as required.
<><> And so on and so forth, ad infinitum, ad nauseaum.
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BACKSTORY Cruz/s Senate election fairy tale has become legendary......portraying himself to trusting Texans as a scrappy populist putting everything on the line to overcome a wealthy establishment opponent.
He was whining in the media, telling trusting Texans that he, and his faithful little wife (a $700,000 globalist lawyer employed by G/S), were forced to liquidate their entire family savings (of slightly more than $1 million) to fuel a come-from-behind win in the Republican primary.
NOW TRUSTING TEXANS LEARN Cruz did not liquidate family assets.....he got his hands on over a million dollars from his hefty margin accounts at G/S and Citibank......and did not disclose this on FEC reports (to keep it a secret from trusting Texans).
Cruz did not disclose loans on FEC reports (required by law) b/c Texans would have discovered he was not the aw-shucks rube he pretended to be. He continued the rube act in order to milk votes from trusting Texans.
At the same time, he also did not disclose he was a dual Canadian citizen......the Harvard-educated lawyer w/ two Ivy League degrees said he didn't know. When the Dallas Morning News published his Canadian birth certificate, Cruz put trusting Texans through the charade of renouncing his Canadian citizenship.....even though Canada did not recognize dual citizenship at that time.
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Cruz (like Perry) didn't know when to keep his mouth shut. Political blunders piled up ... it was one disaster after another. The dumb moves made will be required learning.... what not to do...... for any candidate!
Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle Corp., made a $1 million donation to Rubio’s PAC yesterday.
Opponents of the Cheap Labor Express take note.
Your charts mean nothing unless you can tell us how many votes were Dem cross over and who they went for. States like S Carolina are suspect IMO.
I already early voted in Texas for Ted Cruz.
I fear McCarthy might be right about Cruz. Cruz is my first choice, but the path does seem to be getting narrower for him. Cruz is getting squeezed on both flanks. Trump is doing well among very conservative and evangelical voters, while the GOP-e is making a very pointed statement to Cruz by endorsing Rubio at every opportunity.
I also tend to think Ben Carson is sticking in the race to siphon off a few more percentage points from Cruz to weaken his efforts against Trump. Just a gut feeling on that point, though.
I agree. Carson is helping the man who said he was sick, and as incurable as a child molester.
OMG....Arnold has the worst plastic surgery and dyed hair transplant I ever saw.
Makes Donald/s combover look fashionable.
You do know that Canada has birthright citizenship don’t you? You do now Cruz was born in Canada and lived there with his Canadian dad for almost 5 years don’t you? How in the hell can you said “Ted Cruz never was a Canadian citizen.” that is a flat out lie. Cruz has a Canadian citizen living in Canada for the first 4 years of his life. Why do Cruz supporters lie so much? Where is his Consular Report of Birth Abroad?
Perhaps some on this board should come to realize that Cruz’s birth status will ensure that Rubio, an anchor baby, will eke out his lead over Cruz in a three person race. IMO, he is damned if he does get out and damned if he does not because neither Rubio (not standing for reelection) or Trump (not leaving while in front) is going anywhere.
Now then, if he does go voluntarily, the point becomes does he throw support to Trump. If he does not support Trump, Rubio will be the beneficiary of enough of his votes plus those of the GOPe to sustain a victory over Trump IMO. What is really interesting will be why he would support Trump over Rubio because what would Trump give him after the nomination? Surely he could not be on a ticket wherein his eligibility is in question. Supreme CT appointment or attorney general perhaps the only avenues but for either he would need senate approval which he probably would not get for SC, AG perhaps. Rubio is in position to offer more.
From such an analysis, I can see where Trump may not get the nomination after all regardless of his popularity. Win win for Hitlery.
Now, the battle is between Cruz and Rubio for 2nd place.
Some reported a Kasich surge in SC, but after the votes were counted, that did not materialize. He is a short-termer in the race.
Cruz needs to stay in through SuperTuesday as the counter balance to Rubio. That last thing we need is a Rubio surge.
Voters in Texas have watched the very nasty Cruz campaign. He better start worrying about his senate seat. If I were him I’d drop out before Texas votes. Trump will do well here in Cruzs’ home state of Texas.
I guess we will see, assuming that deals are not already done.
I agree...I forgot the sarcasm tag.
You’re incorrect.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3385617/posts
“.......Birthers have been asserting that, since Rafael Cruz did not become an American citizen until 2005, and while he was in Canada with his wife, during which time Ted was born, he became an Canadian citizen. This, in the Birthers’ view, disqualifies Ted from this Presidency, as “the Founders” never would have intended someone like him becoming President
But look closer at the bolder portion. It never says that the father has to be a citizen of the United States at the time the child is born. All it says is that citizenship “shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States.” It is indisputable that Rafael Cruz was in the United States for a period of time prior to both Ted’s birth and his marriage to native born American citizen Eleanor Elizabeth Darragh Wilson in 1969. He fled Cuba in 1957 at the age of 18, arriving in Texas. There, he attended the University of Texas, graduating with a degree in mathematics in 1961. He even married his first wife there, Julia Ann Garza, in 1959. They later divorced, but not before he had two daughters with her. He was also granted political asylum in 1961 upon his graduation from UT.”..................
A good way to look at it as my opinion carries as much weight as anyone else. I hope I am wrong but it is what it is.
BTW, I did not post an opinion I have that we could see a Trump/Rubio ticket based on fact Trump has not leveled many barrages at him. He removed Bush from the playing field and has diminished Cruz quite a bit but has left Rubio alone mostly. If he does not pick it up on Rubio, the fix is in. Remember something my dad said: if a politicians lips are moving, he is lying.
Did Canada have birthright citizenship in 1970? Yes.
Was Ted Cruz born in Canada? Yes
2 + 2 = 4
Ted Cruz is and was (until a couple of years ago) a natural born Canadian citizen
There is only one vehicle for Cruz to acquire US citizenship at birth. A Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA) is the equivalent of a US birth certificate. Where is Teds'? Since Canada did not allow dual citizenship in 1970 a CRBA would have negated his Canadian birth. But it gets even worse for Ted. Without a CRBA technically Cruz is not even a US citizen. I would like to know what documents he used to get a US passport.
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