Ted Cruz will never be president - By Joan Walsh

[DonViejo]

Breathless staffers say he’s got 2016 plans, but the Tea Party bully will never win a national election. Bank on it

BY JOAN WALSH

During the 2012 election cycle I occasionally ran stories declaring that various Republicans being touted as White House material “will never be president.” Sarah Palin after her narcissistic Gabby Giffords meltdown; Newt Gingrich early in his race-baiting campaign; Mitt Romney after his British Olympics screw-up.

I batted 1.000 for that cycle, but it was easy. In 2016, Republicans won’t be facing a Democratic incumbent, so somebody has a shot. I recently wrote that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will never be president, due to his out-of-control anger issues, but candidly, I think that’s my riskiest one yet.

I feel no risk in stating unequivocally that despite the delusions of his Senate staffers and supporters, who told the National Review’s Robert Costa that they expect him to run in 2016, far-right Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will never be president. Costa is a good reporter with excellent sources; it’s a good story. I’m not doubting its veracity. So far he’s been more circumspect about his 2016 plans than Rand Paul and Marco Rubio, which some people attributed to questions about his eligibility for the presidency (he was born in Canada but his mother was a U.S. citizen). The story states clearly that Cruz’s legal advisers say he’d have no problem with eligibility. So there are unlikely to be Cruz “birthers”; Democrats don’t do xenophobia and racism quite like the far right, which loves Cruz.

And according to Costa, the Cruz boom isn’t just delusion within his office, or on the outer fringe of the Tea Party. “If you don’t think this is real, then you’re not paying attention,” an unnamed “Republican insider” told Costa. “Cruz already has grassroots on his side, and in this climate, that’s all he may need.”

full article
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/ted_cruz_will_never_be_president/

[Cha]

1. I just want another sane Dem in who's into

REALITY!

thanks DV

[onehandle]

2. Ted 'McCarthy' Cruz Was Born In Canada. Pointing this out does not make you a birther.

Unlike the crapola hurled at President Obama, his birth place is a fact.

Anyway, 30 Rock told me that a baby born in Canada is not eligible.

[DonViejo]

3. And his Daddy fought for Fidel in Cuba. nt

[erpowers]

6. Mom Is American

I am not sure if you are joking about someone being born in Canada not being able to run for President of the United States, but Cruz's mom was an American citizen. As a result, he can run for President.

[Blue Owl]

4. Fantasy Island Cruz

[freshwest]

8. Or Carnival Cruz Lyin'

[ZRT2209]

5. Carnival Cruz! Full of sh** and going nowhere

[Tx4obama]

7. Cruz was born in Canada, and not on a military base. Therefore is ineligible to run for president :)

Show us your birth certificate Mr. Cruz

Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where his parents, Eleanor Darragh and Rafael Cruz, were working in the oil business.[8][9] His father was a Cuban immigrant to the United States during the Cuban Revolution.[10] His mother was born and reared in Delaware, in a family of Irish and Italian descent.[9][11] Cruz's family returned to the U.S. when he was four years old. ... -snip-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz

[Jim Lane]

9. 1. Cruz is eligible. 2. It's in our interests to make it clear that he's eligible.

1. Cruz is eligible. As of the moment Cruz was born, he was a U.S. citizen by virtue of his mother's citizenship and the law in effect at that time. He did not need any subsequent naturalization proceeding or change in the law or anything else to be a citizen. (Incidentally, this would not have been true of Obama if he had in fact been born in Kenya. Under the law in effect at the time of his birth, his mother, unlike Cruz's, was too young to transmit citizenship to her son. Obama's citizenship comes because he was born in Hawaii. Anyone born in Hawaii after we annexed it was a natural-born citizen unless entitled at birth to diplomatic immunity. This would apply even to a newborn whose parents were both noncitizens.)

2. It's in our interests to make it clear that he's eligible. We want the right-wingers rallying to Cruz in 2016. If he wins the nomination, he's probably the easiest candidate to defeat. If, as is more likely, he loses, it will be after a bitter campaign in which his adherents denounce the party establishment's choice. In the general election, we can hope that some of them will refuse to support a RINO for the third time in a row. (These are the people who consider McCain and Romney to be far too leftist.)

[Parable Arable]

10. He can't make a serious run?

Shame, I was looking forward to all the lulz worthy soundbites.