‘The left does not care where Cruz was born. Focussing on that will cost them a lot of credibility when they treated it as such a non-issue for the past eight years. The left really hates his conservatism, but they can not target that AND his place of birth at the same time. There is NO advantage for the left to target that.’
I appreciate your thoughtful post.
However, with the help of the media, the left’s credibility won’t suffer no matter what they do. So they will target Cruz’s eligibility because it is the easiest way to attack him. Cruz’s issue is different from obama’s (as far as the left is concerned) - they believe obama was born in USA whereas Cruz is born in Canada! So the media will justify it for them instead of making them out to be hypocritical for ignoring obama’s nbc issue but attacking Cruz’s.
There is every advantage for the left to target Cruz’s eligibility issue - last time they showed off obama’s so-called Hawaii bc to protect him, this time they will blast Cruz’s Canadian bc all over the airwaves until there is chaos and the GOP will replace the entire ticket!
Even if you are right that the left will not target Cruz’s nbc issue, we still have to answer to our own conscience that we are helping to dismantle article 2 in the Constitution.
I personally believe Cruz is a natural born citizen according to the original intent of the founders and the Constitution. The issue has been debated endlessly here, so I do not really want to go down that trail, as most people have made up their minds. And I also do not think any effort to stop him from being elected based on this issue will succeed. Instead, it will backfire.