Read the article above carefully and my comments carefully, because no matter how many times you ask, you’re going to get the same answer. This thread is my advance notice.
IF he runs and IF he’s the strongest conservative running (which I’m pretty sure he will be) I’ll support Ted Cruz as a natural born citizen and constitutionally qualified candidate for the President of United States to the HILT!!
And I’m pretty sure that most freepers and most grassroots tea party conservatives will be right there with us. Those who wish to work against us on this and torpedo his chances thus allowing the democrats and GOP-e RINOs free reign to continue destroying America are certainly free to do so. Somewhere else. I won’t try to stop them or beg them to stay here.
Free Republic—Securing the Blessings of Liberty to Ourselves and our Posterity!!
Rebellion is ON!!
Don’t tread on me!!
I did read it. I have read much on this topic. I am not afraid to read, nor am I interpreting the words, and statements of the very people who wish to do away with the eligibility restrictions. They didn’t/don’t believe it should matter anymore because it excludes people whose dream it is to one day be President, or prevents an otherwise terrific candidate (like Cruz) from running.
THOSE people who filed resolution after resolution, since the early ‘70s, do not want the citizenship clause left in the Constitution. They tried to make their case, and in doing so had to state the reasons.
The reasons all center around allowing for those U.S. citizens who have been naturalized, or whose eligibility may be in question due to being born in a foreign country to U.S. parents (serving our government), foreign children adopted by U.S. citizens, to be considered eligible in spite of not being BORN in the U.S.
They said this, not me. I ask again, what has changed in the past nine years?
June ‘03, and April ‘05 saw yet more of the same Joint Resolutions being advanced.
Fine, you can support Cruz all day long. I’m not calling on you to change your mind of course. I am presenting proof that our Reps have all along known of the restrictions, they have tried many times to amend the Constitution and have yet to be successful. Those Reps agree with you that it shouldn’t matter where a President is actually born, just that he/she obtained U.S. citizenship by some legal means.
However, according to their statements one must still be born in the U.S. without that desired amendment being passed. How to reconcile this with the folks that don’t give a darn where Cruz was born? I don’t know.
Our Congressmen, Senators, learned Professors all agreed on this one point just nine years ago. Birth in the U.S. was required. Again, I am not presenting my opinion here. It’s why I provided a link to the Joint Resolution, it’s all there in official records.
Does this make me wrong, or bad for pointing this out? Seems like you might just think so. But it is what it is.