Seems that Ted Cruz has a bit of a problem. He wants to be president, but according to many of the people to whom he’s catered for the last several years, he’s not eligible. He was born in the People’s Republic of Canada, and if the birthers are consistent, they will have no choice but to conclude that he is ineligible to be president-as ineligible as Obama would have been had he in fact been born in a foreign land, as the birthers claim.
For Cruz really was born in Canada, meaning his fact pattern is identical to the phony fact pattern upon which the birthers based their arguments. How delicious it would be if his candidacy was torpedoed by consistency on the part of his base. But that appears too much too ask, although- who knows, Orly Taitz and Ann Coulter have both weighed in against him, and there’s no reason to think that his primary opponents won’t go full on if it helps to whip up the crazies.
For myself, I’m beginning to see the logic in their position. I’m a proud American, and it pains me to think that a person as hypocritical and mendacious as Cruz could possibly be a red-blooded American. Unfortunately, I find it even harder to believe that someone like him could be a product of Canada, but out of national pride I’m ready to swallow that improbability. So, my position is as follows: for the year 2016, and only for the year 2016, a person born in a foreign country to an American mother is not a natural born American, and is ineligible for the presidency. After 2016 we can go back to a rational interpretation of the Constitution, though the way things are going, by that time it might be that the “natural born citizen” clause will be the only provision of the Constitution getting that sort of treatment.
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