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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Maher said he thinks Ted Cruz could win the Republican
nomination because the last time around Republicans tested anyone other than Romney (Bachman, Santorum, Perry, Gingrich, Cain) but couldn't find anyone who wasn't wacky. So they went with the non base candidate in Romney. And Cruz went to Harvard Law so he's not a flake. He doesn't think Chris Christie won't appeal to the base voters because he's been lucid a few times over the years and the GOP base hates that. How can Cruz be stopped?
Maher was on Piers Morgan tonight when he said it.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)applegrove
(118,658 posts)littlewolf
(3,813 posts)makes it easier for the sane people to win.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)MiniMe
(21,716 posts)Seems like he would be ineligible
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)Congress enacted this legislation just three years after the drafting of the Constitution, and many of those who voted on it had participated in the Constitutional Convention. The act provided that children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond the sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural-born citizens ...
By Sarah Helene Duggin
http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/10/is-ted-cruz-a-natural-born-citizen-eligible-to-serve-as-president/