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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCruz-ing strategy: Texas senator attacking Obamacare with an eye on 2016?
Cruz-ing strategy: Texas senator attacking Obamacare with an eye on 2016?
By Maria Recio | McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON Sen. Ted Cruz is smack in the middle of the No. 1 political story in the country, has energized his partys conservative base and has become the most visible 2016 Republican presidential wannabe in an early and crowded field.
Politicians live for these kinds of moments.
A senator for not yet even a year, the Texas Republican is at the epicenter of the faceoff between his party and the Democrats that may well lead to a government shutdown Oct. 1.
Elected in November in his first bid for office, he started an unlikely crusade this summer to force House of Representatives Republicans to defund the Affordable Care Act Obamacare which they did last week.
unhappycamper comment: If Teddy is going to make it into the 2016 National Election, he better get busy changing the US Constitution:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Two_of_the_United_States_Constitution
Article Two Clause Five says:
Clause 5: Qualifications for office
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.
By the time of their inauguration, the President and Vice President must be:
natural born citizens (including naturalization passed from parents)
at least thirty-five years old
inhabitants of the United States for at least fourteen years.
Eligibility for holding the office of President and Vice-President were modified by subsequent amendments:
The Twelfth Amendment (1804) requires the Vice-President must meet all of the qualifications of being a President.
The Twenty-second Amendment (1951) prevents a President from being elected more than twice.
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Cruz-ing strategy: Texas senator attacking Obamacare with an eye on 2016? (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Sep 2013
OP
The Congressional Research Services has determined that Cruz is natural born.
Agnosticsherbet
Sep 2013
#3
OMG, please, we have had years of terrible governors, it is time for a break. I hope this is not
Thinkingabout
Sep 2013
#6
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)1. Of course he is the mark of a teabagger is
that they care only for themselves!
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)2. from the day he came on the stage
seeking POTUS was his goal.
I bet he isn't as batshit crazy as he pretends to be...but he is playing to a gullible audience and they slurp every drop of crazy he oozes.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)3. The Congressional Research Services has determined that Cruz is natural born.
(Warning PDF)
Qualifications for President and the Natural Born Citizenship Eligibility Requirement
"The weight of legal and historical authority indicates that the term "natural born" citizen would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship "by birth" or "at birth," either by being born "in" the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents; or by being born in other situations meeting legal requirements for U.S. citizenship "at birth."
"The weight of legal and historical authority indicates that the term "natural born" citizen would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship "by birth" or "at birth," either by being born "in" the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents; or by being born in other situations meeting legal requirements for U.S. citizenship "at birth."
Actually, they did this back in 2011. So if he should win the nomination by Republicans, no one will blink an eye.
The bigger questions is his dual citizenship in Canada, and he has moved to fix that problem. Ted Cruz, Tea Party favourite, to renounce Canadian citizenship
I suspect that anyone with power and the backing of a party will be able to run for president, but there is a strong cynical streak in my DNA.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)4. No question that this is about 2016 and playing the wingnut wing of the GOP
to get himself the nomination. And it is brilliant insomuch as that is concerned.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)5. Future governor of Texas. nt
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)6. OMG, please, we have had years of terrible governors, it is time for a break. I hope this is not
In our future to have Cruz to elected to any office would not be good, we want to turn blue.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)7. Perry won every election by more than double-digits. nt
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)9. It did not make him a good governor.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)10. No, it means there are a lot of bad voters.
Cruz is smarter and more ruthless than Perry.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)8. Please. One can only hope so. nt
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)11. He's going to throw his hat in the ring...
Puglover
(16,380 posts)12. It is difficult to believe that
even this gargantuan douche nozzle could be so self deluded that he thinks it would be nothing but a colossal waste of time to go for the presidency.
randome
(34,845 posts)13. You attach too much significance to the word 'thinks', IMO.
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