Rubio now jumping on the Cruz is Canadian train?
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I don't know what to think. I know one thing, he needs to get it cleared up before primary season is over. Because quite frankly, if he is the nominee it'd be a HUGE distraction.
I can't believe you people are entertaining this fallacy. Cruz is eligible and by all rights is the best candidate the repubs have. He needs to get the nomination to save the Republican Party.
This would be a big issue if it were a different country. Most American's think of Canada as pretty much part of the United States. If it was Mexico or Cuba this thing would have legs!
In the immortal words of Cotton McKnight...
"It's time to separate the wheat from the chaff, the men from the boys, the awkwardly feminine from the possibly Canadian."
"It's time to separate the wheat from the chaff, the men from the boys, the awkwardly feminine from the possibly Canadian."
He should be declared eligible or ineligible before the caucuses if you want to be fair about it.
I wonder if the Cuban refugees (Rubio and Cruz's immediate ancestors) were vetted as much as they and other politicians now want nowadays refugees to be. After all, Communists could have sneaked in from Cuba disguised as refugees.
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The cool thing is that I can use that same post on about 6 or 7 other republican candidates.
The cool thing is that I can use that same post on about 6 or 7 other republican candidates.
In the immortal words of Cotton McKnight...
"It's time to separate the wheat from the chaff, the men from the boys, the awkwardly feminine from the possibly Canadian."
Cotton,
TC is awkwardly feminine and Canadian. He has more feminine characteristics than Hilary.
IMO Cruz is not eligible and founding fathers "Natural born citizen" was meant by them to be taken literally.
Did they say a person must be 35ish in age to be eligible? No. Did they say that since women's brains generally develop 2 years faster than men which causes them to mature 2 years faster they only are required to be 33 to be president? Of course not. Were the founding fathers specific when they also set the requirement that a citizen had to live in the US at least 14 years prior to becoming POTUS? Yes they were.
Our founding fathers were very specific about the requirements to run for POTUS and so their requirements should be taken quite literally. They clearly never intended every US citizen to be eligible to be POTUS. If the country believes their requirements are outdated and require more definition or changed the proper procedure needs to happen and an amendment put into place. Until that happens it should mean a big no to the Canadian born Cruz who actually didn't renounce his Canadian citizenship until May 2014.
Did they say a person must be 35ish in age to be eligible? No. Did they say that since women's brains generally develop 2 years faster than men which causes them to mature 2 years faster they only are required to be 33 to be president? Of course not. Were the founding fathers specific when they also set the requirement that a citizen had to live in the US at least 14 years prior to becoming POTUS? Yes they were.
Our founding fathers were very specific about the requirements to run for POTUS and so their requirements should be taken quite literally. They clearly never intended every US citizen to be eligible to be POTUS. If the country believes their requirements are outdated and require more definition or changed the proper procedure needs to happen and an amendment put into place. Until that happens it should mean a big no to the Canadian born Cruz who actually didn't renounce his Canadian citizenship until May 2014.
I'm not sure how a "literal" interpretation of "natural born citizen" means born on US soil.
