Can we drop the birther BS on Cruz for now?

[struggle4progress]

Yes, we're all royally pissed about the ignorant noise we've heard about our President not being a real US citizen cuz he was born in Hawaii, which too many people pretend to believe is somewhere in Kenya or whatever part of South America he's from

If Cruz gets the GOP nomination, which I think unlikely, then IMO there's not much of a chance he'd be elected -- but if it happens and you're really worried, feel free to knock yourself out having fun calling rightwing talk-radio and sounding horrified that he picked up the nomination:

Why the bloody blue blazes -- scuse my French: I don't usually talk like this -- but why the heck are the Republicans nominating another foreigner for President? I mean, this is the third time, isn't it? 2008, they ran McCain, not born in the US! Then 2012, Romney, not born in the US! And now, it's Cruz, again not born in the US! What's up? There are millions of real Americans in this country! Can't they find anybody from here to run? Cruz is a Cuban from Canada! That's not one but two socialist countries, there, Cuba and Canada. Romney was born in Mexico for the love of pete! Did the Trilateral Commission secretly take over our country when nobody was paying attention? It's like something you'd see on the X-files!

[JCMach1]

2. in fairness, maybe he should stop the birther stuff on Obama first...

[trumad]

3. I don't think we are full on birthers.

I think we enjoy giving them a taste of their own medicine. We like showing their hypocrisy.

[MohRokTah]

4. Just goes to show, politial ideology does not preclude the nutburgers.

Alan Grayson is a Cruz Birther, for goodness sake, which simply solidifies what I always thought of Grayson.

[MosheFeingold]

6. Grayson likes to seperate idiots from their money n/t

[MohRokTah]

7. That's why WND went full metal Birther, too. eom

[MosheFeingold]

8. Absolitely

Toe sucker, er, I mean Dick Morris, did as well.

[cleanhippie]

5. It's not Birther BS, it's using their own hypocrisy as a weapon against them.

[WillowTree]

9. No. It will keep coming up. I just tune it out.

[truebrit71]

10. Yeah, no. Fuck that guy.

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[DefenseLawyer]

11. I'm not sure I see an analogy to birthers

"Birthers" make false claims about the President having been born in a foreign country. Ted Cruz WAS born in a foreign country. There is no conspiracy theory or dispute about that. Because that is not in dispute, the only question to be answered is whether he meets the Constitutional requirement to become President, i.e. that he is a "natural born citizen". Most agree that Cruz's situation meets the requirement, although there is no precedent that I know of directly on point to definitively resolve the question. I don't see it as unworthy of exploration, even if, in my opinion Cruz meets the requirement. If he wasn't born in a foreign country (if he had been born in say, Hawaii and not Canada) those seeking clarification would be "birthers".

[treestar]

12. True though the documentation demand

would be fair enough. They kept demanding Obama's birth certificate. He produced it. Anyone who continued with birtherism after that is a nut bar.

Cruz's birth certificate and his mother's are fair game to ask for.

I used to ask right wingers why they did not need to see McCain's and one of his parents' (which would have documented citizenship for him) and never got an answer.

[Javaman]

13. Naaaa.

not gonna do it.