Tend to agree, so where's the Consular Report of Birth to put this to rest then, and why hasn't Cruz provided it?
This whole issue would go away 15 minutes after Cruz produced it, instead it appears we have the Republican equivalent of Obama here.
More and more, so-called "legal scholars" are divided on whether or not Cruz is a natural born citizen. Despite the claims of others on this forum, the USSC has not ruled on cases such as Cruz's either.
This issue isn't going to go away unless either Cruz produces the Consular Report of Birth, or this goes through the Courts.
If this has to go through the courts, I expect Cruz will be toast. No way the Republican Party wants their own "Obama citizenship" issue on their hands. They can't be that stupid, can they?!
No it wouldn't. A CRBA is prima facie evidence of being naturalized, but Cruz would deny that, and most of the public would be fooled on the same logic they are fooled by now.
Anybody whose citizenship depends on an act of Congress is naturalized, whether that act makes them declare intent, go through a ceremony, or not. The legal act of making an alien into a citizen, no matter how that is done, is naturalization.
Cruz knows it. But his ambition depends on making people believe something he knows to be false.