The Presidential eligibility of Ted Cruz

8/29/13 | Lakeshark

[Lakeshark]

The Presidential Eligibility of Ted Cruz

Got your attention yet? I have a modest proposal for ALL FReepers concerning this issue, but let me explain why there is a proposal at all.

The last couple of weeks our venerable and sainted media (peace be unto them) has decided to, after all these years of silence, bring up the issue of Presidential eligibility. The strange appearance of article after article would make you think they were about to expose the birth certificate of messiah Bambi from a Kenyan hospital and show proof of a renouncement of his citizenship while in Indonesia .

Alas, no it’s not about the eligibility of our current fearless reader, instead it’s about the eligibility of Senator Ted Cruz. For those of us hiding under rocks, Ted Cruz just happens to be one of the finest conservatives to hold office. He’s smart, engaging, persuasive, handles MSM traitors journolists like pathetic kindergartners begging for more candy, presents conservatism naturally as a compelling counter to totalitarian leftismliberalism, plus he really wants to move the country to the right normal place of excellence it once was.

Right now, Ted Cruz is trying to rally the GOP to try to defund Bambicare. He is lobbying for it in the Senate, the House, and more important is rallying the GOP voters to sign a petition urging all GOP members of Congress to join the effort to defund this monstrosity. He is in the breach, fighting the good fight, he is the spearhead of this effort. With this and other efforts he appears to have risen to the top of the leadership of conservatives in America. He has the ear and confidence of most conservatives at this point.

So, does anyone hear believe the MSM is interested in simply following the Constitution when they bring up the question of his eligibility? If you do, read no further. If you don’t believe the MSM wants us to be fighting amongst ourselves at this point, read no further.

Based on what I’ve said above: Here is my proposal:

As conservatives, as FReepers, let’s no longer do what the MSM/Soros/democrat complex wants us to do on this issue, namely fight over the eligibility of Ted Cruz and divide the conservative movement at this crucial time. For those of you who believe he is not eligible, understand these two facts:
1. Senator Cruz has not declared for a presidential run at this point, so there is NO issue. Kindly stop making it an issue, particularly right now. Stop. Cease. Desist. It is not important, he’s not running yet. Kindly don't post articles from the MSM or comment on said articles if they are only about the eligibility of Ted Cruz.
2.You are doing the bidding of the MSM/Soros/democrat complex when you do so. They’ve made it clear they want to divide us on this issue, don’t take the bait. Also, see 1. above. Kindly realize that when the Wa ComPost runs 12 articles in 2 days about this issue, it’s not to help conservatives unite.

For those of us who think he is eligible. Remember number 1. above: He is not yet running, there are more important things to do right now. If you see someone on the opposing side, I suggest you link them to this proposal and ask them if they want to continue to divide conservatives during this crucial time, ask them if they really want to carry the water of the media/Soros/democrat complex.

So here again to all: Let’s call a truce on this issue. Not to surrender your beliefs, no one has to do that yet, he is not running. Rather, let’s unite behind the conservative principles that Cruz is pointing us all to, particularly let’s unite to ask the GOP to defund Bambicare. It’s important to do so rather than to quibble over what is at this time, a nonexistent issue ginned up by our domestic opposition.

Thank you for your support.

[Lakeshark]

Have at it, I think this would be a good day to call a cease fire.

[LibLieSlayer]

If Cruz runs... I will back him... and Jim Robinson is on record saying the same. We ALL need to embrace Conservative Tenants and to praise those that live by them in DC. Cruz is one honest man that does!

[JRandomFreeper]

A call for sanity. How quaint.

Never happen.

/johnny

[bigbob]

Amen. Sick of this issue being posted many times per week.

[babble-on]

tenets

[Lakeshark]

FYI ping.

[Qwackertoo]

IF he runs, he has my vote and my support and a nice donation to his campaign.

[Baynative]

Factoid: Section 301(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act extends citizenship to anyone born to an American citizen — such as Cruz’s mother at the time of his own birth.

[Norm Lenhart]

“Not to surrender your beliefs, no one has to do that yet, “

I liked that part. You know, “Yet.”

[Sherman Logan]

Sounds reasonable to me.

[JRandomFreeper]

I caught that, too. Gonna suck for them when I don't surrender my beliefs, me being a purist, and all.

/johnny

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Ditto.

[Norm Lenhart]

The best part is this opinion piece reads like a GOP memo. I see many familiar arguments.

I love Cruz, But he’s gotta get this straight at the Supreme level. If not, it’s going to get ugly.

[nathanbedford]

I agree with your admiration of Ted Cruz, in fact I have long poasted that he looks now to be our best potential candidate for 2016.

I also agree that the time is not now ripe to argue among ourselves concerning his eligibility.

However I vehemently disagree with your recommendations to self censor our views and to self censor what we choose to post. So long as we stay within the general guidelines outlined by Jim Robinson, we should expand our horizons as widely as possible. If we are to know what the enemy is up to and marshal our arguments on behalf of conservatism, we simply have to expose ourselves to these articles and test our opinions in the crucible of FreeRepublic.

I believe the tendency to ban and to jot is regrettably far overdone and in the long run extremely unhealthy for the premier voice of conservatism. We decry the censorship from the left in our universities but want to practice the same thing ourselves. It is bad in both places.

[xzins]

I’ll be glad to follow the proposal.

Unilateral disarmament is not in my nature, though.

[Norm Lenhart]

The thing is, if we don’t settle this now and we follow the advice given, then the issue will be front and center come election time IF he runs.

We were told LAST TIME by many people in many articles like this that the time to settle these things id before or in the primary. Now we are being told, to, as Andrew Kalven so succinctly put it, just shut up.

Speaks for itself.

[Lakeshark]

I also agree that the time is not now ripe to argue among ourselves concerning his eligibility.

I agree fully. I disagree that this is a call to "self censorship", I never used that term, it was more a call for self control, like you say "at this time". We have far better things to concern ourselves with.

[Lakeshark]

Trust me, I’m not willing to unilaterally disarm either.

[P-Marlowe]

Since this issue seems to appear on every single Ted Cruz related thread, I would propose that we should treat the introduction of the NBC issue on a Ted Cruz thread as an attempt to hijack said thread and the poster should be warned and serial violations should result in suspension and zotting.

I can’t believe all the freepers who start every post with “I like Ted Cruz, but...NBC...”

It is not for us mere voters to decide if Ted Cruz will be ruled ineligible, it is for us to ensure that if he runs, he wins and it will be up to the weak kneed Congress to certify the election.

No judicial body will ever take up the case so this is a MAJOR DISTRACTION that is irrelevant to our fight to restore Liberty in this once free country. The Constitution is not a suicide pact. Yet so many seem so bent on using three obscure and archaic words to ensure the destruction of this Union.

I’m sick and tired of presenting the evidence of Ted Cruz’s eligibility to people who are either incapable of weighing evidence or who have a Destroy Ted Cruz agenda.

Ted Cruz is eligible. Let’s now move forward in the battle against tyranny. If Ted leads that battle I will be following his lead. I pray he does run. I pray he does win. But if he doesn’t run, I pray that someone with the political courage of Ted Cruz does run and win.

We have less than 3 years to prepare for the war to save this nation from tyranny. Let us not spend those years shooting at our Generals.

[JRandomFreeper]

If you will just surrender, there won't be all these arguments.

/johnny