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Scary Cruz control (Ted Cruz not falling in line like McCain/Rubio/Grahamnesty)
The Washington Post ^ | April 19, 2013 | Dana Milbank

Posted on 04/20/2013 1:51:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Jed Eckert; 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz knows he was born in Canada and says he does qualify.

So because his mother, a life-long American citizen, gave birth to him while working in Canada, he’s a....what?....a Canadian?

Do some research. And while you’re at it, as I mentioned, be sure to look up what Cruz says about it. And try to remember he knows a tad bit about the Constitution.

Boy this gets tiresome on every Ted Cruz thread.


21 posted on 04/20/2013 2:13:01 PM PDT by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear..."(Glenn Beck))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

John F. Kennedy was 42 when he ran for President and 43 when he took office.


22 posted on 04/20/2013 2:13:05 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (LBJ declared war on poverty and lost. Barack Obama declared war on prosperity and won. /csmusaret)
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To: txrangerette

cruz is eligible...these people are paid to follow cruz for president threads and plant the idea that he isn’t eligible. why else would they do it?


23 posted on 04/20/2013 2:14:56 PM PDT by willyd
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“GOP lawmakers encouraged the rise of the tea party...”

They did, but not in the way I think this clown is thinking. The Republican leaders encouraged the rise of the Tea Party by treating conservatives like shit, to the point of picking sides and spending money in PRIMARY CONTESTS.


24 posted on 04/20/2013 2:15:12 PM PDT by BobL (Look up "CSCOPE" if you want to see something really scary)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Grassley was smart like a fox wanting Cruz to present this type of bill to the public.

For the reasons you mentioned and more.


25 posted on 04/20/2013 2:15:17 PM PDT by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear..."(Glenn Beck))
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To: freedumb2003

“John F. Kennedy was 42 when he ran for President and 43 when he took office.”

And this country has been in a downhill spiral since.


26 posted on 04/20/2013 2:16:06 PM PDT by Tupelo (Old, Bald, Ugly, Fat and Broke in Arizona)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, well my senator Rubio is Hispanic too.
Turning in to a schmuck but hey, he is Hispanic.


27 posted on 04/20/2013 2:16:11 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: freedumb2003; 2ndDivisionVet
As of 2008 being born abroad is no longer an impediment to the Presidency.

I guess you didn't get the memo. That only applies to Democrats. All others need not apply.

28 posted on 04/20/2013 2:17:10 PM PDT by Jed Eckert (Wolverines!!)
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To: freedumb2003; 2ndDivisionVet
As of 2008 being born abroad is no longer an impediment to the Presidency.

I guess you didn't get the memo. That only applies to Democrats. All others need not apply.

29 posted on 04/20/2013 2:17:10 PM PDT by Jed Eckert (Wolverines!!)
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To: Joe Boucher

They’re both Cubans.


30 posted on 04/20/2013 2:18:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: BobL

AND Joe served in the House. NOT the Senate.


31 posted on 04/20/2013 2:18:48 PM PDT by willgolfforfood
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To: willgolfforfood
No, Joe McCarthy was a Senator.

Which is one of things that makes the liberals trying to pin HCUA on him so funny.

32 posted on 04/20/2013 2:25:24 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Promotional Fee Paid for by "Ouchies" The Sharp, Prickly Toy You Bathe With!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, shut up America! Stop voicing your opinion if it isn’t shared by Obama.


33 posted on 04/20/2013 2:29:00 PM PDT by toddausauras (FUBO x 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
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To: Jed Eckert

He qualifies.


34 posted on 04/20/2013 2:30:51 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican, no Conservative was on the ballot.)
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To: freedumb2003

Cruz’s claim that he is eligible to run for President is based on the Founders and the defintion of “natural-born citizen”. According to him, natural-born means a citizen at birth, as opposed to later becoming a citizen by the immigration and naturalization law.

He claims citizenship at birth, having been born to a fully, unequivocally American citizen mother, who happened to be working in Canada at the moment of his birth.

It is that parental status, rather than on which side of a border, that he relies on along with the Founders intent by using the term “natural-born”.

Not one “i” or “t” of HIS claim rests on what happened with other candidates, or has anything to do with 2008 or any other year.


35 posted on 04/20/2013 2:32:19 PM PDT by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear..."(Glenn Beck))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s perhaps too early to say this, but people like Ted Cruz would make me consider joining the Republican party.


36 posted on 04/20/2013 2:33:19 PM PDT by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: toddausauras

No kidding. Cruz is doing what the people who voted for him want him to do. It’s a bad thing for a Senator to do the job he was sent to do? My, my....says a lot about the whiners.


37 posted on 04/20/2013 2:33:41 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Cruz is 42, the same age Joe McCarthy was when he amassed power in the Senate with his allegations of communist infiltration....

Have you no shame, Milbank?

38 posted on 04/20/2013 2:34:36 PM PDT by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Cruz is 42, the same age Joe McCarthy was when he amassed power in the Senate with his allegations of communist infiltration....

Oh, you KNOW they're terrified of they guy when they start whipping out the McCarthy comparisons. Problem is, they're associating him with a guy I think they unfairly skewered in public opinion, so it really doesn't help anyway.

39 posted on 04/20/2013 2:35:05 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: txrangerette; willyd
Cruz knows he was born in Canada and says he does qualify.

cruz is eligible...these people are paid to follow cruz for president threads and plant the idea that he isn’t eligible. why else would they do it?

Don't get yourselves all lathered up over my comment. If Cruz says he meets the definition of "natural born citizen" then I'll defer to him. I just never heard him comment on the issue. I would certainly vote for him if he ran.

40 posted on 04/20/2013 2:39:11 PM PDT by Jed Eckert (Wolverines!!)
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