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Donald Trump Is Right About Cruz's Presidential Eligibility
Reason.com ^ | January 20, 2016 | Jacob Sullum

Posted on 01/21/2016 5:31:08 AM PST by VitacoreVision

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1 posted on 01/21/2016 5:31:08 AM PST by VitacoreVision
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To: VitacoreVision

This born in Canada mess is hurting Cruz in NC.


2 posted on 01/21/2016 5:33:28 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 (I like Trump and Cruz. Leave me the heck alone.)
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To: VitacoreVision

Maybe, just maybe, all of this bickering over and investigation into Cruz’s citizenship will lead to evidence of Obama’s lack of it.


3 posted on 01/21/2016 5:34:28 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Cboldt

Fyi


4 posted on 01/21/2016 5:37:51 AM PST by hoosiermama (Make America Great Again by uniting Great Americans)
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To: VitacoreVision

It is a cheap campaign trick. Donnie is the one losing cred. Good grief.


5 posted on 01/21/2016 5:38:47 AM PST by libbylu (Trump's supporters have the same brain disease as Hillary's supporters)
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To: equaviator

We can hope. WHERE is Cruz’s CRBA? And WHY is he stonewalling? It just looks bad, & the longer it goes on, the worse he looks.


6 posted on 01/21/2016 5:40:19 AM PST by KGeorge
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To: VitacoreVision

Sigh.

This issue is going to kill Cruz, and destroy his chance of being VP.


7 posted on 01/21/2016 5:40:56 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: libbylu

Wow, demanding that we follow our Constitution as written is now a “cheap campaign trick”.


8 posted on 01/21/2016 5:44:09 AM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: equaviator

Obama lied about his birthplace AND loyalty. Cruz didn’t. That’s tge big difference

It is disgusting to watch this

Obama will never be caught. Because his supporters also lie their way through life.


9 posted on 01/21/2016 5:44:09 AM PST by stanne
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To: TornadoAlley3
-- This born in Canada mess is hurting Cruz in NC. --

Laws and the constitution are pesky things.

10 posted on 01/21/2016 5:44:10 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: VitacoreVision

If Cruz is eligible to run for president, then how many other people around the world (who don’t even live here) are also eligible???

Think about that one for a moment.


11 posted on 01/21/2016 5:45:59 AM PST by Safrguns
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To: libbylu

If you want to know why the founders but the natural born citizen (NBC) clause into our constitution, look no further than the current administration. We would be wise to follow our constitution, and Cruz is not a natural born citizen. In fact up until 1934 Cruz would have even been considered a citizen of the USA. How can someone naturalized by a 1934 law be a NBC. It is a absurd proposition.


12 posted on 01/21/2016 5:48:09 AM PST by jpsb (Rush is)
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To: equaviator

The problem isn’t lack of citizenship. The problem is dual citizenship.


13 posted on 01/21/2016 5:48:46 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: equaviator
Cruz has citizenship. One should have little doubt of that.

The issue is over the application of natural born Citizen.

The article shows a crack in the dam of grossly misleading public discourse. The question isn't unsettled at all. It is settled very clearly, and it is settled (other than saying it applies to Cruz) that all persons born abroad are naturalized citizens.

I share your fantasy (and think it might turn into reality) that Obama is to be seen as ineligible. The first president to be improvidently seated by Congress. It can happen. I pray to God that it does happen. This country is full of good people who deserve to be told the truth, and to be lead by honest people, not dishonest ones.

14 posted on 01/21/2016 5:48:56 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: VitacoreVision

I don’t think he is right.

But I am convinced some Liberal judge will decide he IS right if Cruz is elected.


15 posted on 01/21/2016 5:49:31 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TornadoAlley3

This born in Canada mess is hurting Cruz in NC.

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Just curious where or what are you hearing? At some point it has to be addressed
in some form or fashion if it gets to be a common discussion among voters.


16 posted on 01/21/2016 5:49:32 AM PST by deport
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Case Western law professor Jonathan Adler, who initially said "there is no question about Ted Cruz's constitutional eligibility to be elected president," later conceded he "may have been too quick to suggest that this issue is completely settled."
This is significant.

I think unwinding a big lie works better, if worked slowly. I bet that a week or a month or three months from now, the public will be of a clear mind that born abroad cannot be NBC.

17 posted on 01/21/2016 5:51:07 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: ConservativeDude
-- This issue is going to kill Cruz, and destroy his chance of being VP. --

The fact of the matter is that he is constitutionally disqualified. It isn't the publicity or uncertainty that gets him (although it does erode his votes), it is the law that gets him for certain.

18 posted on 01/21/2016 5:52:52 AM PST by Cboldt
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Don’t you know that our presidential elections now have absolutely nothing to do with a candidates morals, beliefs, convictions, policies, historical record and abilities.

It is entirely dependent on a candidates popularity, just like high school elections. Trump is a tv star, a WWF star, talks smack. Got it?


19 posted on 01/21/2016 5:53:42 AM PST by biff
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To: stanne
-- Obama will never be caught. --

That depends on how awake the public becomes. It's possible that the public will view him as a usurper. Time will tell.

20 posted on 01/21/2016 5:53:54 AM PST by Cboldt
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