This is the chaos that decades of Progressive PC/Diversity/Multi-Culti BS helped create!
The same diseased dysfunction that we have allowed creep from fringe society into politics and the courts and give us the situation we find ourselves in now where words and their original meaning are subject to reinterpretation simply because assholes don't like what they meant at the time!
Employing the KISS Principle...nobody unless they are a complete back-birth can fail understand what the term "born" and "citizen" mean..."live birth" appears on most certifications and a citizen is merely a dweller in a nation, not necessarily legal in character.
So it all comes down to the meaning of "natural".
Noah Webster is our national treasure, the compiler of the English language in America and he leveraged heavily off of our British genesis, understandably as we were a part of the empire until it became tyrannical and hostile. So there is a lot of English words and their meanings inherited from Britannic English via Samuel Johnson, and much of it and what Noah put in his dictionary are one in the same.
To wit - "Natural" (noun) -
2. A native; an original inhabitant.Even the adjective is in harmony with that concept -
1. ...natural is opposed to artificial or acquired.http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/naturalClearly, one cannot be an original inhabitant without being born within these United States or it's territories (which would include military bases and consulates since they are legally defined as US property). The process of being naturalized is not equal to being natural, naturalization is a artificial/acquired process by which one becomes a lawful citizen in the nation, it does not mean they are a natural born citizen who can be President. IMHO it does not get any simpler than that. Why muck it up? The only reason to do so is for selfish un-Constitutional (unnatural if you will) purposes.
So, let arguments commence...what about Cruz, what about McCain...?
Well, unless his mother was a natural born citizen and had to give birth outside the US because she was an official consular official...hard to make any case for his eligibility regardless of the status of the father. But she was natural born (DE) but she was there with her hubby in the oil business, no official US presence there so Cruz is a natural born citizen of Canada and had dual citizenship in the US, if you recall he had to renounce his Canadian status in 2014 in preparation for a POTUS run. Only an IL case reaffirmed his eligibility to run, if he had gotten the nomination instead of Trump it is hard to know where this would have gone, the corrupt bargain of McCain allowing himself to be used to give political cover to Obama mucked the landscape up royally...and while it is hard to see the Dem's mounting much in the way of a salvo against Cruz had he advanced, can never say never, but deep down I think they like the watered down definition that is now sadly
(stare decisis) part of case law mortar.
McCain was born on a US Naval Base in the Panama Canal Zone too US natural born citizens (IA & OK) so he is (was) eligible IMO.
Without a major case for SCOTUS to rule on (God Help Us!) the situation does not look like it will revert to sound Constitutional ground.
Hope that helps!