Posted on 11/30/2012 6:40:52 AM PST by LoneStarGI
Texas Sen.-elect Ted Cruz advised the Republican Party to rebrand itself under a banner of “Opportunity Conservatism” during a sweeping speech Thursday night that will only stoke speculation about a 2016 presidential run.
Speaking before the conservative American Principles Project dinner at a downtown Washington hotel, Cruz said the GOP’s thumping in the 2012 elections was more the result of poor messaging and communication than the wrong ideology.
“Why did we lose? It wasn’t as the media would tell you: because the American people embraced big government, Barack Obama’s spending and debt and taxes. … That wasn’t what happened. I’m going to suggest to you a very simple reason why we lost the election: We didn’t win the argument,” Cruz said before pointedly lowering his voice. “We didn’t even make the argument.”
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Couldn't agree more...why do they pimp 'blue states' like Iowa and Red Hampshire? Has anyone noticed what NH just sent to Washington???
A Guy Named CRuz
Coming Soon to a pea and chicken dinner fundraiser near you soon.
DeMint / Cruz .. sorry, it’s the best I got ..
both are excellent orators and could teach an electorate a lot .. a lot more than the GoP-e laughers and criers in charge now..
Yeah, he was born in Canada which doesn’t make him NBC.
The silly twists that some people do here because they want it to be over any critical thinking.
Even if born overseas to an underage female US citizen so that makes him NBC!!
Born in the US to alien parents that makes him NBC!!
And now a politico born in Canada who has naturalized father so that makes him NBC!!
What a bunch of clowns.
Let him prove himself in the Senate first.
I’ve come to believe that while free market opportunity society is a key element of conservatism, it must not be the only element.
We need to support and integrate the values of freedom and family and community into this message.
What do you mean he “cannot become President”? The guy who’s president now had a father born in Kenya. Nothing stopped him.
“Why can’t we find a candidate who’s parents were born _here_, and who was born _here_ as well?”
Because _we’re_ too busy working so our government can hand out benefits to everyone else who decides to come _here_.
:P
“i hear that Obamas mom cannot give citizenship to Obama unless she was 18”
IF Obama was born outside of the United States, then here is the law that was in effect at the time of his birth:
I agree. The GOP thought the state of the economy was the only argument needed.
Uh NO
get the facts straight
Ted’s Mother is from Boston, born here is USA
Only his father was born in Cuba
At this point, I like that idea of a third party. It`s not like it would jeopardize the GOP`s chances of taking the White House.
At this point, I like that idea of a third party. It`s not like it would jeopardize the GOP`s chances of taking the White House.
Three types of citizenship are recognized by our government: native born; naturalized; and citizen-by-statute (derived citizenship from parents). All have equal rights. All can serve in Congress, either as a Representative in the House, or as a Senator in the Senate.
The following link will take you to the government’s own Immigration Service web page describing the three types of citizenship.
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=a2ec6811264a3210VgnVCM100000b92ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=a2ec6811264a3210VgnVCM100000b92ca60aRCRD
Natural born Citizen is NOT a type of statutory citizenship. Natural born is ONLY an eligibility requirement for the U.S. Presidency per Article II, Section 1, clause 5, of the U.S. Constitution, and requires, as per the Founders, the President to be born in the United States (jus solis) AND of two citizen parents (jus sanguinas).
The definition of natural born Citizen appears in the holding of SCOTUS’s unanimous decision of Minor v. Happersett (1874).
Virginia Minor, a Suffragette, sued to be included as a candidate for U.S. President based on her eligibility under the 14th Amendment to the U.S.Constitution.
SCOTUS rejected her argument and examined her eligibility, concluding that she belonged to the class of citizens who, being born in the U.S. of citizen parents, was a natural born Citizen, and not covered by the 14th Amendment. This holding has been used in 25 consequent SCOTUS decisions since 1875.
No one has the RIGHT to be President.
The eligibility requirement of Natural Born Citizenship (jus solis + jus sanguinas: born in the U.S. of U.S. citizen parents) must be viewed as a means to prevent split allegiance for any President of the United States.
The following is often used to support people like Rubio who seek to be President, but it was superceded centuries ago and is a false argument.
“The First U.S. Congress included in the 1790 Immigration & Naturalization Act language to alert the State Department to the fact that Americans born abroad are (“natural born” citizens” and are not to be viewed as foreigners due to foreign birth. They were not granted citizenship via that US statute rather their automatic citizenship was stated as a fact that must be recognized by immigration authorities. They were not citizens by any other means than natural law, and statutory law was written to insure that their natural citizenship was recognized.”
This is not a reasonable explanation. It fails to recognize that Congress only has powers over naturalization. Congress has no power to define “natural born Citizen”, which has nothing to do with naturalization. Furthermore, if Congress wants to tell the State Department something, they don’t have to enact legislation to do it.
But more important is that all of the following naturalization acts, 1795, 1802, etc., were also passed to naturalize the children of U.S. citizens born abroad. And the words “natural born” were repealed in the 1795 Naturalization Act and never returned again.
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