March 30, 2015
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According to the U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 1:
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Cruz was born in Canada in 1970, although he renounced his Canadian citizenship recently to accommodate his political aspirations. His father was born in Cuba, however his mother was born in Delaware. Still, does that qualify Cruz to run for the office of President of the United States?
Cruz was one of the most outspoken critics of Barack Obama’s run for the presidency, leading the pack of “birthers” who challenged Mr. Obama’s citizenship and demanding to see his birth certificate to prove his legitimacy. Now, the tables have turned on Cruz, as scores of Americans are beginning to believe his Canadian birth and longtime Canadian citizenship proves he is not a natural born citizen and is therefore ineligible.
TED CRUZ = THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE GOP
Now that Ted Cruz has become the first to announce his candidacy for President of the United States, his fellow Republican lawmakers have already started throwing darts and making fun of the man who thinks he has a shot at becoming America’s Commander-In-Chief. According to them, he hasn’t a chance in hell!
Rep. Peter King called Sen. Ted Cruz a “big mouth” who “basically led the Republican Party over the cliff” and suggested the Republican Party should ignore his candidacy for its 2016 presidential nomination.
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“To me, he’s a guy with a big mouth and no results,” King said recently during a CNN interview. “We have very, very complex issues facing the country today, and he goes out of his way to oversimplify. Ted Cruz may be an intelligent person, but he doesn’t carry out an intelligent debate. He oversimplifies, he exaggerates … he doesn’t provide leadership and he has no real experience.”
“Shutting down the federal government and reading Dr. Seuss on the Senate floor are the marks of a carnival barker not the leader of the free world,” King added, referencing Cruz’s anti-Obamacare speech on the Senate floor that last more than 20 hours and led to a 2 week government shutdown.
Peter King was not the only GOP critic of Ted Cruz. Sen. John McCain called him “a wacko bird,” while South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham used a recent speech to the Council on Foreign Relations to make fun of how a President Cruz would handle a nuclear crisis.
“Ted with nukes, Ted with nukes, let’s see …” he joked, drawing laughter from the crowd. “I dunno what Ted would do, but he should come up here and answer these questions, don’t you think?”
Is the Canadian-born Sen. Ted Cruz eligible to run for President of the United States, or is he merely the “carnival barker” laughing stock of the Republican Party who should simply disappear into oblivion?
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