Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) presidential campaign responded Wednesday to renewed attention from birthers who believe the Texas Republican isn’t eligible to run for commander-in-chief because he was born in Canada.
Conspiracy theory website WND, which has functioned as a sort of hub for birthers, recently pointed to Cruz as one of four Republican candidacies that self-styled “strict constitutionalists” oppose.
Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler dismissed the birther chatter in an email to TPM.
“Senator Cruz has not spent a single moment on this earth where he was not an America citizen, indeed a natural born American citizen because his mother was and is an American,” Tyler wrote.
He also pointed to a Harvard Law Review article on the “natural born” citizen question written by a bipartisan pair of former solicitors general.
“Despite the happenstance of a birth across the border, there is no question that Senator Cruz has been a citizen from birth and is thus a ‘natural born Citizen’ within the meaning of the Constitution,” the article read.
Nuh-uh! Can’t avoid it by avoiding it. Every GOP demand and accusation must be met with fury and shouting. C’mon, Raphael, jump into this pit and get muddy.
Yet when Obama, whose mother was a natural born citzen, was born inside the United States…
‘‘Despite the happenstance of a birth across the border’’ Huh? Mr. Cruz is a white Canadian. President Obama is a black American born in Hawaii. Only in America can a natural born black man be denied his birth right, whilst a white Canadian roams free. Damn…
Obama is a Democrat. IOKIYAR. Don’t forget that rule!
I do wish we had a bigger field in our primarires. We really need a few folks that have zero chance to win, but have a great wit, to just troll these bozos endlessly for us.
There still ain’t no “Real American” in “Cuban Calgary Ted Cruz.”
(Still needs to buy an M, and L and an I).