There is the not completely unsettled question of eligibility to run for President with respect to the the "natural born citizen" requirement.
There is much debate over the meaning of the term, mostly by those who like to quibble for one reason or another, and it crosscuts people up and down the entire spectrum.
To me the answer is obvious - natural born, as the Founders I am certain meant it, meant being born in the United States (or it's territories, possessions and embassies) to natural born parents, period. The only exception per Article II Section I is the "at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution" qualifier because, naturally, many of the Founders and leading citizens of the day were not native born Americans. That's it, that is the requirement regardless if people like it or not, and regardless any bullshyt legislation like the Corrupt Bargain given by Senator's Obama & Clinton in 2008 that stated John McCain is "a natural born citizen". Per the definition above, he was a natural born citizen as the canal zone was under US military jurisdiction and sanctioned by the Hay-Herran Treaty in 1903, McCain was born in 1936, both of his parents were born in the US (Iowa and Oklahoma). So, why was legislation that is not needed for McCain put forth? To gloss over any irregularities someone might dig up on Obama, obviously! His father, at best, was a Kenyan...giving him more of a need to bogus legislation than McCain, but McCain served as a surrogate for Obama and sadly did not have the good character to object to being made a fool of.
Anyway, back to Cruz...
Cruz is claiming natural born status through the anchor-baby method - his mother...because his father, like Obama's, was not born in the United States, but like the pass given Obama, what people have to do now is decide how many wrongs make a right...if ever.
I will be consistent, I say Obama has never been eligible, will never be eligible and will eventually be shown not to be eligible...and for the same reason Cruz is not eligible. (Sadly, even if the latter is proved, I doubt any of his legacy will be thrown out by the courts...citing chaos and instability blah blah blah, they'll leave it to congress and the new executive to sort out!)
But we are in the era of anything goes so I expect the great many of Americans will go along with the new precedent that is set...much to their eventual ruin I suspect, but, whatever...I am with The Founders or I am with nobody.
And I fully expect to see the MFM flip the other way and not have any qualms at all about assailing Cruz's qualifications.
And I am making this determination on the facts, not because I do not like Cruz, I do, he has been a fighter on many fronts. I think his best legal opportunity to do good is as perhaps a future majority leader in the Senate or as a sitting Justice on the SCOTUS, if we have any time left...
My two bits, for what its worth...
