James Carville On Ted Cruz

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[pointless]

you mean he's like a clone or a test tube baby or something?

 

[Adre]

Carville likes to create mischief. He'd love to see Cruz run.

 

[Killswitch]

You KNOW he's not a natural born citizen. He's a Cuban Canadian. You're so gullible and searching for a king that you even give Carville props when he throws you a pos bone like Cruz.

Good grief.

 

[LadyVer]

Carville likes to create mischief. He'd love to see Cruz run.

 

[Liar]

Ted Cruz is an extremely talented and fearless troll.

 

[InJest]

Odds of a (free) 2016 election are currently 50%

 

[JackLuis]

Odds of a (free) 2016 election are currently 50%

Nothing is free in Politics. That's why all the politicians are bought.

 

[Squibbs]

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[LillyO]

I find his looks grotesque.

 

[eyer]

Carville referred to Cruz running for President, but I don't think he's natural born.

Cruz's father was a Cuban immigrant from the Revolution there - not yet a naturalized US citizen - working in the oil business in Canada, Mrs. Cruz with him, when the younger Cruz was born in Calgary...

...Cruz's mother is a natural born US citizen from Delaware.

When the senior Cruz was 17 in Cuba, he was arrested, imprisoned, and tortured for voicing his opposition to the Batista regime and took the side of Castro; @ 18, after turning on Castro for recognizing that chump's communist intent, he fled to America with $100 sewn into his clothing, ending up in Austin where he found a job washing dishes 7 days a week, and began attending the University of Texas, where he met the future Mrs. Cruz - Eleanor Darragh had already earned a degree in mathematics from Rice. Their mutual interest in mathematics aiding in cementing them, Mr. & Mrs. Cruz founded their own company conducting seismic data processing for oil companies (which eventually took them to Canada)...

...the family Cruz lived in Canada for the first 4 years of young Ted's life; then they moved back to Texas where Jr. would become Texas' Solicitor General, and, eventually one of its US Senators.

Rafael Cruz became a naturalized US citizen in 2005 and today is a pastor in North Dallas.

The juinor Cruz has said his father once told him:

When we faced oppression in Cuba, I had a place to flee to. If we lose our freedom here, where do we go?

Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton...

...from wiki:

While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship. In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton). Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship.

Cruz's senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled "Clipping the Wings of Angels," draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to James Madison: "If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: "They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers."

Cruz then attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995. While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.As a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, “Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant.”

Two days ago, the junior Senator from Texas challenged the man who swore him into Office - Vice President of the United States of America and President of the Senate, Joe Biden - to an hour long debate, How to we stop crime, in direct response to Biden's clarion call to keep pushing for gun control...

...no word yet on if Obama will let the old dog loose.

What should absolutely scare the holy begeezus out of progressives is that this dude is as academically intelligent as anyone they can hope to offer...

...and the crazy man reveres God, too.



If the seduction of power and compromise do not do him in...

...Senator Cruz's natural love of individual liberty could be the trailblazing light this great nation desperately is in dire need of now.

 

[Midnight_Man]

Carville likes to create mischief. He'd love to see Cruz run.

You nailed it. Too bad Cruz can't run.

 

[1sickbastard]

Carville referred to Cruz running for President, but I don't think he's natural born.

He was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
However, his mother was born in Delaware and was (and still is) an American citizen, and so he would also be considered a natural born American citizen.

 

[eyer]

Google: "can Ted Cruz run for president"...

...elite among the listings are a number of favorite progressive media who are already commenting on his eligibility.

It seems to me, he only way the issue can be legally determined is if/when Cruz files papers to run for the top job itself...

...until that cause, opinion will rule.

BTW...

...neither of Rubio's parents were American citizens when he was born.

 

[badbabysitter]

I think it's cute that the very people that were attacking Obama on his birth status...are now defending Cruz on his

it's so adorable

 

[1sickbastard]

I think it's cute that the very people that were attacking Obama on his birth status...are now defending Cruz on his

it's so adorable

It's only hypocrisy when other people do it.

 

[coastal-boy]

I think it's cute that the very people that were attacking Obama on his birth status...are now defending Cruz on his

it's so adorable

I'm sure they will be able to defend it.

 

[eyer]

As I've posted of before, the "natural born" issue is destined for clear, simple, and precise Constitutional definition very, very soon...

...the multiple millions of the latest batch of anchor babies alone testify to that need.

And I've also posted before that, imwo, neither Cruz or Rubio should be eligible to run for President...

...just as President Obama shouldn't be eligible.

Only those born to parents who are American citizens at the time of birth are truly "natural born", imwo...

...but it does not matter if either or both parents are either naturalized or natural born citizens - just as long as they are American citizens at the time of the child's birth.

Whether a child's parents were in-country at the time of birth is irrelevant - as long as their citizenship status is unquestionable with the State Department, location of birth shouldn't matter at all.

If Ted Cruz is sincerely serious about his love for this country and not just as personally ambitious as practically every other politician seems most definitely to be...

...he would lead the drive to make clear what "natural born" truly means as part of his publicly professed ambition to first serve this nation well.

 

[phrodeau]

What he said is doubtless true. In the past thirty years, Republican politicians have been crap.

 

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[badbabysitter]

I'm not sure that's the case. John McCain was born of two American parents outside the USA and he himself wasn't sure if he was considered a "natural born citizen" so he asked the United States Senate to rule on it, they issued a sense of the senate declaration that agreed he was eligible, but the issue hasn't really been decided in court of law. One thing is for sure, if Cruz runs the Democrats will take the issue all the way to the SCOTUS if he wins.

Maybe Orly Taitz will step up again

 

[Sean Renaud]

Actually what's true is that if Cruz wins the Dems won't say a word about it. The subject won't come up a single time. Dems don't work like that.

 

[renard_ruse]

Actually what's true is that if Cruz wins the Dems won't say a word about it. The subject won't come up a single time. Dems don't work like that.

You're incredible.

The current Democrat party is the most rotten, underhanded, Machievellian bunch of slime in the history of this country. They only reason they would NOT attack someone for anything they could come up with is if they found from focus group testing it isn't helpful to them. That probably isn't so they wouldn't waste their time (or the media's).