I don’t have a link to the Cruz citizenship issue, but I read the theory. Evidently both Cruz’ parents were listed on Canadian voter rolls barely a year after moving there. Only Canadian citizens can vote, and in most cases it takes five years for a foreigner to gain citizenship.
So what happened?
According to one theory, Eleanor Wilson became a British citizen during her protracted stay in England with her first husband. According to the article I read, Canada has a special provision that allows British citizens to naturalize in one year. Rafael Sr, being the husband of a British citizen, would have been allowed the same consideration.
Is it true? I don’t know. All I know for certain is that if Ted’s Consular File were in perfect order, he’d have revealed the contents by now. It doesn’t help him, and indeed, it hurts him, to have people wondering exactly what happened following his Canadian birth. Did his parents even report the birth to the American embassy? We simply have no way of knowing.
The biggest clue is that when the issue first came up, Cruz did not provide simple, straightforward answers. Rather, he linked to an idiotic video. That’s exactly how Obama handled similar questions: by mocking and ridiculing the questioners, rather than by providing respectful, substantive answers.
There would be no reason for Cruz to deflect on this issue if he had nothing to hide.
Personally I believe those around here who argue, from seemingly very informed points of view, that the Constitution is clear about the NBC requirement for two citizen parents, (Jus Sanguinus, or something like that) and ON AMERICAN SOIL, which I seem to recall as "Jus Soli".
Also statutory law and case law which has never been superceded has been cited by very well-read freepers around here...
So here we are in this position, all admiring the wannabe Emperor's new clothes, and it all started way back when everyone looked the other way with Chester Arthur or whomever, Barry Goldwater... old man Romney too if he counts... and another guy in the early 21st Century. [Sips water and clears throat.]
I can understand ordinary people falling for this deception, but every damn one of these media people know better but don't GAF, and it goes double for the "Conservative" media people and exponential for those who have heretofore portrayed themselves and Constitutional scholars but sell their souls for the price of a few thousand unsold books and maybe something unknown like Mark Levin.
Kudos to Trump for having raised the issue early in the campaign, but other than him, when are people going to face up to the fact?
(Answer, of course, now that I ask, is that G-d forbid, if Ted gets the nomination (and I once supported him!!), Bernie or Princess Fauxwhatsername will smear this all over him with a bucket and a mop.)
And that's when the MSM will swing into action; I can hear the Today Show music cueing up right now with the voice-over: "What DOES the Constitution say about being President...?
And as long as we're on the subject, I've got another question...
Winston Churchill was English, a subject of the crown. His mother was American, is that correct? And isn't it also correct that after the war, because of his leadership, he was granted by Congress the title of "Honorary American Citizen", or something to that effect?
Why was that necessary? Why wasn't Winston Churchill already a Natural Born Citizen? His mom was American, wasn't she?
Why didn't Winston Churchill relocate to America after the Labor party threw him out of office in 1945, and run for President here? He would have been a NBC then, wouldn't he?
His mom was an American, right?