Showing posts with label President. Show all posts
Showing posts with label President. Show all posts
Saturday, March 12, 2016
The Only Way to Stop Trump
It's probably too late for Republicans to keep Donald Trump from getting the Republican presidential nomination. There is a remote possibility that Gov. John R. Kasich could defeat Trump if Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Ted Cruz dropped out and threw their support to Kasich.
Neither Rubio nor Cruz has any chance of winning the nomination. They appeal to only a portion of Republicans with little chance of appealing to those Republicans who don't call the selves "conservatives". Many of the people who are voting for Trump are only doing so because they don't want Cruz or Rubio and Trump is the only other Republican with a chance to win the nomination.
If Cruz and Rubio drop out the voters who are supporting Trump as the least of the three "evils" might switch to Kasich If there are enough Republicans in this category, Kasich might be able to compete with Trump.
Perhaps Rubio and Cruz could be bought off with promises of positions in a Kasich administration. Rubio is a plausible vice presidential running mate. Cruz could be offered the Attorney General position
with a secret promise of a Supreme Court nomination late in the administration.
Monday, February 29, 2016
Republicans Who Don't Want Trump Need a Viable Alternate Candidate
Those Republicans who don't want Donald Trump need a better
alternative candidate than either member of the Cuban junior
varsity.
Neither Senator Ted Cruz nor Senator Marco Rubio can win in November. Cruz and his supporters aren't even smart enough to realize that he isn't eligible to be president. Rubio might be a viable candidate when he grows up, but right now he's just an inexperienced virtual political child. Their only appeal is to Republican true believers who don't understand that most people don't share their simplistic view of political reality.
The Republican Party is a minority party and must attract Democrats and Independents to win. Cruz and Rubio can't attract Independents or Democrats. The only thing they can do is attract enough Republicans to keep Trump's competitors from winning enough votes to compete. If they had stayed out of the race it is very possible that one or two of the governors would have been competitive with Trump. Some of those who want a candidate outside of politics might be supporting Dr. Ben Carson or Carly Fiorina if they hadn't been stuck at the back of the pack because they couldn't pass the Cubans.
Trump is winning because the Cubans have eliminated his competition. Those who would have voted for the other candidates have switched to Trump as it has become apparent the other candidates cannot win. Trump is also winning because people recognize he is a leader who is larger than life. He's the only presidential candidate since President Ronald Reagan who is larger than life. Being larger than life refers to a person's personality. Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon were larger than life in spite of their flaws.
Trump's opponents may have waited too long to stop him. The longer they wait the lower their chances of stopping Trump. Chris Christie and Jeb Bush may be the only ones who have enough name recognition to have a chance.
Cruz is a naturalized citizen because his citizenship come from naturalization law. He did not become a citizen by being born. He became a citizen because his parents met the conditions necessary to have a child become a naturalized citizen.
A natural born citizen automatically and unconditionally becomes a citizen at birth if the birth occurs in the United States. Consider the following examples. A Mexican woman crosses the border into Arizona. Fifteen yards into Arizona she gives birth. They child would be a citizen because it was born in the U.S. In a Los Angeles hospital an Iraqi woman gives birth just before dying from wounds she received while conducting a terrorist attack. In spite of the mother's actions the child would become a citizen because it was born in the U.S.
Cruz did not automatically become a citizen at birth because his mother had to meet certain conditions to obtain citizenship for him. If she had only been 18 when he was born he could not have become a citizen. If she hadn't been married to his father he could not have become a citizen.
Neither Senator Ted Cruz nor Senator Marco Rubio can win in November. Cruz and his supporters aren't even smart enough to realize that he isn't eligible to be president. Rubio might be a viable candidate when he grows up, but right now he's just an inexperienced virtual political child. Their only appeal is to Republican true believers who don't understand that most people don't share their simplistic view of political reality.
The Republican Party is a minority party and must attract Democrats and Independents to win. Cruz and Rubio can't attract Independents or Democrats. The only thing they can do is attract enough Republicans to keep Trump's competitors from winning enough votes to compete. If they had stayed out of the race it is very possible that one or two of the governors would have been competitive with Trump. Some of those who want a candidate outside of politics might be supporting Dr. Ben Carson or Carly Fiorina if they hadn't been stuck at the back of the pack because they couldn't pass the Cubans.
Trump is winning because the Cubans have eliminated his competition. Those who would have voted for the other candidates have switched to Trump as it has become apparent the other candidates cannot win. Trump is also winning because people recognize he is a leader who is larger than life. He's the only presidential candidate since President Ronald Reagan who is larger than life. Being larger than life refers to a person's personality. Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon were larger than life in spite of their flaws.
Trump's opponents may have waited too long to stop him. The longer they wait the lower their chances of stopping Trump. Chris Christie and Jeb Bush may be the only ones who have enough name recognition to have a chance.
Cruz is a naturalized citizen because his citizenship come from naturalization law. He did not become a citizen by being born. He became a citizen because his parents met the conditions necessary to have a child become a naturalized citizen.
A natural born citizen automatically and unconditionally becomes a citizen at birth if the birth occurs in the United States. Consider the following examples. A Mexican woman crosses the border into Arizona. Fifteen yards into Arizona she gives birth. They child would be a citizen because it was born in the U.S. In a Los Angeles hospital an Iraqi woman gives birth just before dying from wounds she received while conducting a terrorist attack. In spite of the mother's actions the child would become a citizen because it was born in the U.S.
Cruz did not automatically become a citizen at birth because his mother had to meet certain conditions to obtain citizenship for him. If she had only been 18 when he was born he could not have become a citizen. If she hadn't been married to his father he could not have become a citizen.
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Sen. Ted Cruz Is a Naturalized Citizen, not a Natural Born Citizen
The United States Constitution requires presidents to be
"natural born citizens". The original Constitution
doesn't define "natural born citizen", but the 14th Amendment states
there are two categories of U.S. citizens: those who are born
in the United States and those who are naturalized under Acts of
Congress.
Sen. Ted Cruz was not born in the United States so his citizenship is conferred by Congress under its naturalization authority. Children born to U.S. citizens outside the United States do not automatically qualify as U,S, citizens under the Constitution. They can only qualify if a parent meets the criteria required by the law. For example, when Cruz was born one U.S. citizen parent had to have lived in the United States for 10 years before the birth with at least five of those years coming after the 14th birthday. t
The criteria can be changed by Congress at any time. For example, Congress might decide to require that both parents be citizens or change the residency requirements. The specific criteria required of Cruz or others aren't important. The important point is that a person whose citizenship is due to naturalization law cannot be a "natural born citizen".
Cruz has stated that he never checked to see if he became a Canadian citizen when he was born in Canada until the Dallas Morning News said he was a Canadian citizen. I hope that he checked to see if any required applications for U.S. citizenship registration have been met. If registration requirements have not been met, Cruz is not any kind of U.S. citizen.
Sen. Ted Cruz was not born in the United States so his citizenship is conferred by Congress under its naturalization authority. Children born to U.S. citizens outside the United States do not automatically qualify as U,S, citizens under the Constitution. They can only qualify if a parent meets the criteria required by the law. For example, when Cruz was born one U.S. citizen parent had to have lived in the United States for 10 years before the birth with at least five of those years coming after the 14th birthday. t
The criteria can be changed by Congress at any time. For example, Congress might decide to require that both parents be citizens or change the residency requirements. The specific criteria required of Cruz or others aren't important. The important point is that a person whose citizenship is due to naturalization law cannot be a "natural born citizen".
Cruz has stated that he never checked to see if he became a Canadian citizen when he was born in Canada until the Dallas Morning News said he was a Canadian citizen. I hope that he checked to see if any required applications for U.S. citizenship registration have been met. If registration requirements have not been met, Cruz is not any kind of U.S. citizen.
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