Well, you already know that I think Cruz is eligible based on our current laws, so it’s all a moot discussion anyway.
Prof Natelson said it isn’t necessarily clear and suggested individual states might make that known. That’s exactly where it’s been challenged, and there are a few more on the way. And the democrats will probably have another round of them in the unlikely event Cruz wins the primary.
I heard there is now a challenge in California. Do you know anything about it?
By the way, I really like the young Duncan Hunter from your state. Any way we can get him to run?
I think a qualification for president should be that the person be a combat veteran. Only a person who has literally put his life on the line for this country should be entrusted to lead it. (I know, McCain and Kerry would have been qualified under this clause and would still have made lousy leaders, but overall I think it is a much better indicator of loyalty to the country than some obscure rule about where your parents were at the time you were born).
Also those who have witnessed combat are obviously more qualified to be commander in chief than those who have never lost a friend in a firefight and have never actually been on the ground to witness the horrors of war.
When I become dictator, I’m going to write that into the constitution in place of the NBC clause. As dictator I will have a pen and a phone and I can create the America I want. ;-)