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In reply to the discussion: Anyone else not laughing off Ted Cruz? [View all]calimary
(81,221 posts)73. Yeah, well I'm still gonna point that out.
And Ahnold could run for Governor. And he did. And he ran our state directly into the ground. Took another Democrat to pull us back out of that abyss of red ink.
You can run for pretty much ANYTHING as ANY non-American nationality - EXCEPT the Presidency.
I realize the GOP sees rules as not applying to them. But the rules are STILL THERE.
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cruz kept on having an impressive resume after university. cotton is the classic
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#161
Um, nobody accepted that explanation with Barack Obama although it was true THERE, too.
calimary
Mar 2015
#64
his mother was a citizen; he's a citizen. doesn't matter where he was born. you
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#157
My nephew was born in Spain, to a U.S. citizen (my sister) and a Spanish national.
Ikonoklast
Mar 2015
#109
At least one of his parents were American Citizens, so he could have been born on Mars..makes no dif
Volaris
Mar 2015
#145
But he isn't. So was Barack Obama. Born to an American mother. Nobody counted that in his case.
calimary
Mar 2015
#66
obviously they did, because obama's president. if you have an american parent, you're
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#159
And the canal zone at the time was considered American territory, and therefore, it qualified
calimary
Mar 2015
#74
Hawaii was a state when Obama was born, but that doesn't stop the GOP from whining. nt
valerief
Mar 2015
#104
Sorry, Cruz' Mom is a US citizen. Also, his party once like Arnold Schwartzenegger for president....
Hekate
Mar 2015
#65
Unfortunately lots of folks like that stuff. Love him invoking slave owner Pat Henry for "liberty."
Hoyt
Mar 2015
#6
Yeah, because a state that hasn't voted Democratic at the presidential level since 1976...
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2015
#48
I don't like it, either. Not at all. The birthers will totally use this because they never believed
Tuesday Afternoon
Mar 2015
#11
thank you for explaining it. I don't understand why/how Birthers kept pushing it. Can we all shutup
Tuesday Afternoon
Mar 2015
#30
I predicted he would be the nominee months ago. He's a dangerous scheming, calculating
stevenleser
Mar 2015
#13
just like "kenyan born" Obama for that matter. fucking birthers and their dumbass shit.
Tuesday Afternoon
Mar 2015
#31
Most of the GOP doesn't like him. Most of his classmates in Harvard didn't like him.
randome
Mar 2015
#52
He sounds like an idiot and the average American will not take him seriously
NightWatcher
Mar 2015
#28
Not me. He has a superficial charm and slick style. Unlike Bush he knows what he is doing.
bklyncowgirl
Mar 2015
#39
There's more than enough of Teh Stupid sloshing around out there to make a win possible
hatrack
Mar 2015
#43
New York is not going red regardless of who the Democratic and Republican candidate are./NT
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2015
#53
Mid terms and presidential elections always have dramatically different turnouts, ergo:
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2015
#140
Not afraid of him winning, but he most likely will pull the country another notch to the right
world wide wally
Mar 2015
#54
His use of a right wing populist appeal will gain him considerable support,
Agnosticsherbet
Mar 2015
#57
When liberal law professor Alan Dershowitz says he's "off the charts brilliant" I cease to laugh
Hekate
Mar 2015
#76
Alan Dershowitz is a brilliant man himself, and a liberal. He's not "swayed" by Cruz, then or now...
Hekate
Mar 2015
#90
Actually, I DO think he's stupid. But that doesn't mean he can't win, or that he wouldn't be
Nay
Mar 2015
#87
I never laugh off an R. They have a lot of money to buy them whatever they want. We have already
jwirr
Mar 2015
#89
Frankly, it wouldn't surprise me if he ends up as our next (and probably last) president.
The_Commonist
Mar 2015
#92
He doesn't seem so smart to me, and I predict his smarmy face will get old fast.
arcane1
Mar 2015
#99
That's one problem with the Birther crap about Obama: the lie about our system sticks....
Hekate
Mar 2015
#136
We mistakenly underestimted Reagan and W and their handlers (and overestimated
tblue37
Mar 2015
#147
definitely not stupid. and no i'm not laughing, he's scary. trained from the cradle
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#153