Ted Cruz: A Gift Who Just Keeps On Giving

Texas Senator (and Joe McCarthy look-and-act-alike) Ted Cruz really wants to win the GOP nomination for president in 2016.  There is one minor complication, however -- he has the same problem that the Birthers can only fantasize Obama has, namely, Cruz was not born in the United States.

He was born in Canada, which I find hilarious because Ted Cruz is just the kind of guy the Baggers and the Birthers would love in the White House.  I've been waiting to see how the Radical Right addresses this problem (Racist Birther-In-Chief Donald Trump danced around the issue the other day).

The story became more interesting earlier this week when it was revealed that Cruz is currently a Canadian citizen due to the fact that he was born in Alberta.  This has become such a problem for the senator that last Monday he said he would renounce his Canadian citizenship.

And now we have this:

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, who says he recently discovered he is likely a Canadian, must win security clearance from Canada's spy agency, fill out a four-page form and then wait up to eight months to sever his ties to America's northern neighbor.

Eight months?  That's an eternity in American presidential politics.  How do you not see something like this coming, especially a Harvard Law School graduate like Ted Cruz. He could have put this baby to rest years ago, but instead has to now jump through a lot of hoops in order to no longer be a citizen of a country that has long embraced [gasp!] socialized medicine.

And once all that is resolved, how will the Birthers differentiate Cruz's real birthplace (Canada) from Obama's fictional birthplace (Kenya)?  Are they simply going to come clean and say it is okay that Cruz was born in Calgary because Canada is full of white people whereas Kenya is full of black people?

The bottom line for me is that I really don't care where Cruz was born because I think he's constitutionally eligible to become president.  Plus I would really love to see a Radical Right-Wing Bagger like Cruz get the GOP presidential nomination in 2016. 

But would I be upset if some progressive billionaire funded a campaign to make Cruz's life a living hell with regard to this citizenship/eligibility issue?  Probably not.