Discussion: Top Google Debate Search On Cruz: 'Why Was Ted Cruz Born In Canada?'

austin_dave · January 29, 2016, 9:30pm

Genius.

imkmu3 · January 29, 2016, 9:36pm

Yeah, so was my father. He (my father) was no communist though. Neither am I. Ted has a bucket full of faults and is the biggest asshole in the race, but the Cuba connection is an absurd meme.

emilianoelmexicano · January 29, 2016, 9:41pm

[While Trump dominated search engine queries during the Fox News/Google debate despite skipping out on the event, viewers were also searching out more information about the Texas senator, Fox News reported.

The top question: "Why was Ted Cruz born?]

Don’t blame me for trying.

ajm · January 29, 2016, 9:57pm

"Historical research and legal debate as to the meaning of the term and the proper theories to be used to used when construing the Constitution?

doremus_jessup · January 29, 2016, 10:12pm

lol! thanks for the laugh. My wife enjoyed it also.

dr_coyote · January 29, 2016, 10:39pm

Man, that sounds like somebody pulled a real good bit of Google-bombing there…

ajm · January 29, 2016, 11:04pm

For the record: Cruz’s father,a refuge Cuban, became a Canadian citizen and chose to remain so until 2005. Both parents appeared on a Canadian voter roll which was formed by people akin to census workers asking about adults in the household. Ted is a natural born Canadian as the Framers of the Constitution understood the term and is an American citizen since birth by virtue of a statute.

opinionated1 · January 29, 2016, 11:05pm

The top question: “Why was Ted Cruz born in Canada?”

Wild guess: Because that’s where his mother was when she had her little bundle of joy.

greycardinal · January 29, 2016, 11:15pm

This is where abstinence-only sex education gets you.

professorpoopypants · January 29, 2016, 11:31pm

Number 4 was “What cuz a him bein’ bornt in Canadia an all is Ted Cruise to do with bein Predisent an sech?”

1audiofile · January 29, 2016, 11:56pm

Assuming his mother became a Canadian the oath she took would specify she gave up her US citizenship. In that case when he was born in Canada his mother a canadian citizen and not an American citizen. So Ted Cruz was a canadian and not a person with dual citizenship. If instead she did not take the oath to become a Canadian citizen become a Canadian, she would still have needed to file paperwork to naturalize him so he could legally enter the US. His parents failed to fill out the apprpriate paperwork and instead they just carried him across the US boarder. He is in the US ilegally and still needs to fill out the paperwork and become naturalized.

ncsteve · January 30, 2016, 12:13am

To get to the other side?

mattinpa · January 30, 2016, 1:00am

Alla y’all need to brush up on your old vaudeville jokes. AND THE NUMBER ONE REASON WHY TED CRUZ WAS BORN IN CANADA IS—(DRUM ROLL) HE WANTED TO BE NEAR HIS MOTHER!!!1!!!1!!!

dryheat · January 30, 2016, 1:16am

He’s a sentimental guy. His mother was in Canada and he wanted to be near her at such a special time.

(edit) Whoops… too late with this one…

fiftygigs · January 30, 2016, 2:59am

More important for conservatives is where was he conceived.

leftflank · January 30, 2016, 3:51am

Where the Cruz’ screwed up is in not planting the false birth certificates so that he could become President 50 years later.
Plus, Canada isn’t a far away island that makes (dumb) people think that you are from a foreign country.

Obama already laid the tracks and did all of the groundwork, not to mention being President twice. Cruz the birther is too dumb to be an illegal alien or anchor baby, what a maroon.

jimtoday · January 30, 2016, 4:43am

I am VERY CONCERNED that Ted Cruz in not a “natural born citizen”!!!

darrtown · January 30, 2016, 4:50am

Well, the average IQ is 100. And that means at least half of America is below that value… The paste eaters as you say.

jimtoday · January 30, 2016, 4:54am

Wait until we get around to Ted’s Father Rafael Cruz Sr. aka Senor CRAZY! He’s all Jesus all the time, and hates the gays, yet he stepped out on his “traditional marriage” and seems to have completely abandoned his Christian family, and is now divorced? It’s hard to tell since the whole lot of them are such a bunch of fucking LIARS!

darrtown · January 30, 2016, 5:06am

[quote=“AJM, post:47, topic:31977”]
Both parents appeared on a Canadian voter roll which was formed by people akin to census workers asking about adults in the household.
[/quote]What is that date on this “voter roll”? Ted was born in 1970 I believe. It depends on his mom’s citizenship at the time of his birth and not afterward. Further, there is law describing what is required to be “natural born” if born on foreign soil. The parents must be married and one must be a citizen and resident for 10 yrs in the US. Five of those years must be after age 14.

https://americansabroad.org/files/3013/3478/0295/18-04-2012_1318_971.pdf

See the law as of about 1962 in this history.
Ted’s mom’s citizenship AFTER his birth matters not.
edit
Natural born or not I am not gonna be voting for that arrogant slime ball in any case.