After drilling through the bazillion birther threads here on FR, I believe your conclusion is shared by thousands of Americans. Ted ignoring this issue can do nothing but hurt his chances.
The NBC requirement is interpreted by most Americans to be the strictest standard of citizenship. They simply can not be wrong with the child born in the United States to two citizen parents interpretation. It won’t matter if a court sides with Ted, the voter’s interpretation is all that matters.
and this isn’t just about Cruz. I see all sorts of people who could want him declared natural born because they will have their own agenda, and not directly relating to Cruz, but to other candidates down the road.
I see the possibility of foreign entities financially supporting Cruz and his claim in order to supplant their own Manchurian in the future.
This goes far beyond Cruz, and for such a “strict constitutionalist” he should see this, and I know he does, but he doesn’t care. This is all about HIM and those who have a pony in the show.
This is why I don’t trust lawyers. Cruz is no better than any of his ilk. At first I wanted to believe that he was, but he isn’t. He does not have the interest of the Constitution as his top priority, he has Ted Cruz as his top priority.
Many men have given their lives for this country and what it stands for, and folks aren’t even asking Ted to risk his life for his country like many in my Father’s generation and my generation did, but for the best interest of the future of this nation, he should put his presidential aspirations aside, and do the right thing, and uphold the intent of the constitution, not lawyer up and attempt to change the meaning through legal verbiage.
I think America is tired of lawyers telling us what the definition of “is” is. We know damn well what it is.
He may be a great man, but he’d be an even greater man if he put the Constitution above his own personal aspirations.