1st U.S. Presidential Republican Candidate for 2016 ...

a reply to: MALBOSIA

Haha! America is about to get commanded by a colonist. Too good!

Nope. We're moving to NAFTA's next phase - one continent, one country.

I'd like to see Susana Martinez run.

She is a native born US Hispanic.

She is also a she.

A double threat, not only would Hispanics feel obligated to vote for her, but also women would feel obligated to vote for her.

Obama was a single threat, Cruz a single threat, let's run a double threat!

a reply to: windword

As far as soficrow goes, she didn't give enough information in her personal story to completely understand the reason behind her daughter not receiving citizenship.

If sofi had not lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years before her daughter was born, her daughter would not be eligible. That is the way I understand it, anyway.

OBSERVATION:

My "OPINION: He Will Definately ... Stir-the-(poo?)-Pot" appears ... 'Accurate'.

( as evidenced in this thread's prior posts )

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DISCLOSURE:

Regardless of the Actual-Presidential-Outcome and at a Bare-Minimum:

I do appreciate the 'stir-the-pot'-issues he brings to the forefront.

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ADDITIONALLY

I personally know ATS member 'FissionSurplus' who has opinion(s) worth considering that significantly-contrasts anything previously-posted.

SO

Stay-Tuned ... ( and/or keep the popcorn handy ).
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a reply to: queenofswords

The info was in subsequent posts of the deleted thread - and while my daughter definitely qualified for citizenship during that time (and now for that matter), we were applying from New Mexico during an "immigration crack-down" and got caught in the net. Point is, as Tenth pointed out in the deleted thread, rules change for those with money, connections and power.

a reply to: FarleyWayne
You pulling me into this poo pot, FW? Alrighty, y'all asked for it.

Ted Cruz, like all the other glitter-covered turds they're starting to parade in front of us as potential candidates for the job of Sock Puppet in Chief, is not worthy of my vote, much less anybody else's. He's another weasel-snouted bobble head who will say and do whatever his donors tell him to.

I have come to hate the whole presidential debacle. It's gotten so sickening that I find myself imagining maybe Russia or China will drop The Big One on that cesspool on the Potomac and save us all from the continuous bombardment of lies, vague promises, and sheer idiocy that has come to represent the race for president.

However, let us consider this particular turd, covered as he is in Texas braggadocio and Hispanic colors. One needs to look no further than Ted's wife Heidi Nelson Cruz, who is a vice president at Goldman Sachs, one of the most corrupt banking and investment houses on the planet.

Cruz’s connections to Goldman Sachs go beyond the fact that it’s one of his biggest donor bases. Much of his personal wealth is tied to the financial firm as well. Cruz’s wife, Heidi Nelson Cruz, is a vice president at Goldman. In his personal financial disclosure statements, Cruz reported his wife’s salary only as “more than $1,000″ (lawmakers aren’t obliged to be more specific about spouses’ incomes). And in 2011 he also reported having between $158,000 and $495,000 invested specifically in Goldman Sachs products. In 2012, his investments are similar, although CRP has not completed a full analysis.

www.opensecrets.org...

The Reinvention of Ted Cruz Right-wing activists love the Texas senator’s anti-establishment persona. Which is strange, because until recently he was the consummate insider. Michelle Cottle reports. Rand Paul had his 13 hours of filibuster fame last week, but it’s his Senate colleague Ted Cruz who’s really giving the middle finger to that whole idea of upper-chamber comity and decorum. Just a couple of months in, the Texas freshman has made clear his commitment to raising as much hell and as many eyebrows as possible—much to the delight of the Tea Party anti-establishment conservatives who brung him to the dance.

www.thedailybeast.com...

Such feistiness has prompted a wave of media marveling over Cruz’s clash with his party’s establishment. “Establishment attacks only make Cruz more popular with supporters,” read a recent headline on CNN.com. Or this cheeky bit from The Atlantic Wire: “Senate reaches rare bipartisan agreement on Ted Cruz.” (Not in a good way.) Meanwhile, the conservative blogosphere has gone gaga over Cruz’s sticking it to “the establishment.” At last! A true revolutionary who will not be cowed by the Beltway sell-outs. All of which strikes some Republicans as downright hilarious considering that Cruz arguably is one of the most elite, establishment pols around: a double Ivy Leaguer who worked his way up through the party ranks, amassing a GOP pedigree so impeccable he could very well be a missing Bush brother. “His party credentials are unassailable,” says veteran GOP strategist Ralph Reed. “He clerked for Rehnquist, worked on the 2000 Bush campaign, and served as solicitor general of Texas in the state attorney’s office. He’s not some bomb thrower who came out of left field.”

ibid

In other words, he was a beltway insider with conflicts of interest regarding a highly crooked bank. He's not "the people's friend", nor is he a tea partier in the true sense of the term. He's just another groomed insider who will pretend to be something he is not.

We all know and smell the turd despite the glitter and glitz. He's a joke, but ironically, the joke will be on those who believe this lying politician. God grant me the serenity to make it through another frigging election time in the USSA.

I have decided that if they come out of Harvard, Yale, or Princeton, they will not get my vote.

a reply to: FlyersFan

He'll declare from Liberty University? Really? That's a fundamentalist Baptist university. Considering what they preach and stand for, I can safely say that I won't be considering Ted Cruz for POTUS.

As a Conservative Republican i will say i wouldn't vote for him either. His polling isn't all that high compared to others. He certainly wouldn't win. Sadly, I believe we will see a Clinton vrs Bush. I hate to say our politics is broken, but it surely looks like it is. There simply isn't a candidate on the horizon that excites me.

If nothing else continued grid lock is probably the best road for the average American. When they are not doing anything in Washington at least its not getting worse. I don't subscribe to the Progressive Left and there hope that Government is going to save anyone this day and age.

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originally posted by: Variable
a reply to: FlyersFan

He'll declare from Liberty University? Really? That's a fundamentalist Baptist university. Considering what they preach and stand for, I can safely say that I won't be considering Ted Cruz for POTUS.

As a Conservative Republican i will say i wouldn't vote for him either. His polling isn't all that high compared to others. He certainly wouldn't win. Sadly, I believe we will see a Clinton vrs Bush. I hate to say our politics is broken, but it surely looks like it is. There simply isn't a candidate on the horizon that excites me.

If nothing else continued grid lock is probably the best road for the average American. When they are not doing anything in Washington at least its not getting worse. I don't subscribe to the Progressive Left and there hope that Government is going to save anyone this day and age.

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If either a Clinton or a Bush is the next President of the US

The USA has entered a period of dynastic Presidency

it will be the end of democracy and the beginning of family dynasties.

I assume most of you know that Bill Clinton is best buds with the Bush family, tells you everything you need to know.

We need as our next President someone that both the Democrats and establishment Republicans hate.

If that means holding my nose for Donald Trump or whomever is outside the political establishment elite, then so be it.

The time has come for a true third party to emerge, especially if the only offerings are two dynastic families who are best friends with each other!

A fun fact from the deleted post..

He can't run for president he is is not is not a natural born US citizen.. he is Canadian.. so he can't get into the white house.. it is the same deal with Arnold Schwarzenegger he can't be president and neither can this guy..

You people really need a civics lesson.

To the guy above me it will be exactlythst.. Bush will win...
It's called being free and choosing who is good for the job.. Just ask Ron Paul about his thoughts on the legit voting process in the free US.

a reply to: FarleyWayne

He’s a Cuban communist revolutionary whose father was Castro’s shoe shine boy back in Cuba

I can prove it they have his fathers old shoe shine box

a reply to: FarleyWayne

I have already decided on Ted Cruz...

Tears of impotent rage seem to be all we have left. LOL.

a reply to: FissionSurplus

OK ...

I'll admit that it was I that said ... 'GIDDY-UP!'.

Now, I say ... 'WHOA!'.
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originally posted by: FissionSurplus
a reply to: FarleyWayne
You pulling me into this poo pot, FW? Alrighty, y'all asked for it.

Ted Cruz, like all the other glitter-covered turds they're starting to parade in front of us as potential candidates for the job of Sock Puppet in Chief, is not worthy of my vote, much less anybody else's. He's another weasel-snouted bobble head who will say and do whatever his donors tell him to.

Sorry I can only give you one star.
Cruz is another Globalists and Bankster Puppet that will talk out of the side of his mouth for his deluded base while really serving his masters that bought him.

a reply to: FarleyWayne

Well make up yer frigging mind, then! Flip-floppy electorate.

PS. Your camel has fleas.

a reply to: FarleyWayne

Bush / Clinton 2016 !

originally posted by: ThichHeaded
A fun fact from the deleted post..

He can't run for president he is is not is not a natural born US citizen.. he is Canadian.. so he can't get into the white house.. it is the same deal with Arnold Schwarzenegger he can't be president and neither can this guy..

This isn't quite the same situation as Arnold. Ted Cruz is the child of an American although he was born in Canada. Given that natural born citizen is an undefined term there's plenty of room for the courts to say that he can run.

a reply to: Aazadan

Was he born in the US? No.. Therefor logically he us not a US Natural Citizen.. How hard is that to comprehend?
He screwed up by being born somewhere other than the US.. If his birth place does not say bla bla in town of bla bla in the United States of America then there is not wiggle room.. It says Natural US Citizen.

www.presidentsusa.net...

Age and Citizenship requirements - US Constitution, Article II, Section 1
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.

And for the record I know nothing of this guy..

I am still pissed about the 08 and 12 elections where Ron Paul was so legitly robbed of the Election process..

originally posted by: ThichHeaded

And for the record I know nothing of this guy..

Cruz -- full name: Rafael Edward Cruz --was born in Canada in 1970 because his father was working for the oil industry there. The senator’s recently released birth certificate shows his mother was born in Delaware and his father was born in Cuba. The Cruz family left Canada a few years later. Cruz grew up in Texas and graduated from high school there, later attending Princeton University and Harvard Law School.

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We reached her again this week to ask about Cruz’s eligibility. "It would be reasonable to interpret the Constitution’s natural born citizenship provision to include children born abroad to U.S. citizens, including Senator Cruz, for a number of reasons," she said.

But is it 100 percent sure?

"Unfortunately, we cannot say for sure without either a definitive Supreme Court ruling, or an amendment to clarify the Constitution."

Is Ted Cruz, born in Canada,
eligible to run for president?

Some debate exists as to the meaning of this phrase. Consensus exists that anyone born on U.S. soil is a "natural born Citizen."

One may also be a "natural born Citizen" if, despite a birth on foreign soil, U.S. citizenship immediately passes from the person's parents.

Cornell University Law School - Natural born citizen

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OBSERVATION: Perhaps a ... Non-Issue.

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