I've seen him in person and certainly come across better in person than thru the idiot box.
Posted on 01/29/2016 5:00:11 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The concept strikes me as bestowing punishment for a crime not committed. We were supposed to rise above such behavior centuries ago.
I campaigned for RR in VA in 1984. Cruz is not Reagan. Reagan appealed to people of all political persuasions. He won the Republican vote, the Independent vote and a huge number of blue collar democrats. Cruz will NEVER have that kind of appeal. His appeal is very limited and not even a majority of Republicans support him. Trump is the only guy running who has a snowball’s chance in July of winning that kind of broad based support.
I've seen him in person and certainly come across better in person than thru the idiot box.
Are we voting for the best glib comedian or a president? Cruz's sense of humor is very dry, as others have noted. He doesn't have the timing or delivery of Bob and Ray for goodness sake, but he's not too bad for a politician.
I personally like the fact that he's not liked by insiders. To me the complaint that he's not liked is idiotic.
Cordially,
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Megyn Kelly: “The record supports you.” [Cruz: “Anyone here illegally is permanently ineligible for citizenship.”]
Cruz: “It was a poison pill.”
Kelly: “You do have a consistent record on that; I will give you that; we did look back on it.”
To me the above exchange tells me that she did TOO MUCH DAMAGE to Cruz and was trying to soften the blow a bit, as the above, while true, could have been torn to pieces.
For example: “Anyone here illegally is permanently ineligible for citizenship.”
Both Cruz and Kelly know the word “permanently” DOES NOT EXIST in the legislative world. The next Congress simply re-writes the law...or the Courts simply re-writes the law.
Just one example.
“Absurd.”
There is nothing unusual or absurd about it at all. Foreign citizens who have qualified to be Permanent Residents are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, must pay taxes, and are subject to being drafted into the Armed Forces of the United States and serve in combat. U.S. Nationals do not have the right to vote in Federal elections, and they are required to pay taxes.
“Cruz’s problem is no one likes him. Except for the evangelicals. If he was running for Preacher he would be a lock in. As president....he got nothing”
3 declarative sentences and not one actually true. Hyperbole Much? Not an evangel & i like Cruz. Butt if Trump sez so, eh??
Ted Cruz’s fine or not fine character has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact he is a naturalized U.S. citizen and is therefore not eligible to be President of the United States and is acting illegally by trying to do so.
I don’t like Trump, it is because of his LIEberalism and big-government cronyism. Has nothing to do with the spray-on orange tint.
“If no one liked him, he couldn’t have come from behind to beat David Dewhurst, the favored GOPe choice, for Senate in 2012”
If the people of Texas had known Ted Cruz was still a Canadian citizen when he campaigned for the Senate, Sarah Palin would not have been there to help him win that election, and he would not have been a Senator campaigning for President now.
How can someone that would not even have been a US citizen prior to the Naturalization Act of 1934 be considered a natural born citizen? Cruz was naturalized at birth by legislation. If a law makes you a citizen you are a naturalized citizen. A natural born citizen does not need legislation to make them a citizen, they just are.
” campaigned for RR in VA in 1984. Cruz is not Reagan. Reagan appealed to people of all political persuasions. He won the Republican vote, the Independent vote and a huge number of blue collar democrats. Cruz will NEVER have that kind of appeal. His appeal is very limited and not even a majority of Republicans support him. Trump is the only guy running who has a snowball’s chance in July of winning that kind of broad based support.”
Yeah, people were saying that about Reagan when he ran in ‘76, thinking him another Goldwater. GOPe took ‘the safe choice’ and nominated Ford instead. Their safe choice, a sitting President, lost to an unknown peanut farmer.
Since you campaigned for him, you know the rest of the story, Reagan beating a sitting President in ‘80 then went on to have a landslide victory against a former VP, winning every state save one, including the home state of his opponent.
I cannot possibly see where you can construct the unelectability of Cruz having history as a guide.
And I have also learned: Never say ‘Never’.
“naturalized U.S. citizen “
You better go back and read your civics book, friend.
Perhaps you meant a natural-born citizen?
“You better go back and read your civics book, friend.”
I’ve been studying the law and history of law concerning the Constitution’s natural born citizen clause and Presidential eligibility ever since I was given the assignment to write a paper about it during the Goldwater campaign in the election of 1964. Accordingly your assumption I need to read a “civics book” to understand the meanings of those words is about as ludicrous as it can get. Instead, why don’t you try to read the actual law and comprehend the fact it leaves absolutely no room for any doubt whatsoever that Ted Cruz could only possibly be a naturalized U.S. citizen. See:
66 Stat. Public Law 414 - June 27, 1952. TITLE III - NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION. Chapter 1 - Nationality at Birth and by Collective Naturalization. NATIONALS AND CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES AT BIRTH. Sec. 301. (a) The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth; . . . (7) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than ten years, at lest five of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years: Provided, That any periods of honorable service in the Armed Forces of the United States by such citizen parent may be included in computing the physical presence requirements of this paragraph.
U.S. Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual Volume 7
Consular Affairs. 7 FAM 1151 INTRODUCTION... b. 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(23); INA 101(a)(23)) defines naturalization as the conferring of nationality of a state upon a person after birth by any means whatsoever. . . For the purposes of this subchapter naturalization includes:... (5) “Automatic” acquisition of U.S. citizenship after birth, a form of naturalization by certain children born abroad to U.S. citizen parents or children adopted abroad by U.S. citizen parents.
United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649, 18 S.Ct. 456, 42 L.Ed. said “A person born out of the jurisdiction of the United States can only become a citizen by being naturalized....â€
Trying to spread the meme of Cruz as unlikeable?
A lot of BS here, this meme is one of the things that I dislike Trump for starting. Even if he's not someones first choice, continuing this marginalization of him sucks.
Dittos!
I like Senator Cruz better than any of the other candidates, much better than one in particular.
He was an American citizen and a Texan, and that's all they cared about.
If you would care to look, instead of beating that some old drum, you could easily find his mother’s birth certificate, showing her to be an American citizen. If you are looking for a personalized declaration, addressed directly to you, and endorsed by every government official above the level of dog catcher since 1970, well, I don’t think you are going to find it. Sometimes you just have to accept that some blanket decisions regarding citizenship status are covered under existing law.
If you would care to look, instead of beating that some old drum, you could easily find his mother’s birth certificate, showing her to be an American citizen. If you are looking for a personalized declaration, addressed directly to you, and endorsed by every government official above the level of dog catcher since 1970, well, I don’t think you are going to find it. Sometimes you just have to accept that some blanket decisions regarding citizenship status are covered under existing law.
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