Link from The Hill:
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said on Sunday that the concept of birthright citizenship is illogical given America’s struggles with rising illegal immigration.
“I think birthright citizenship as a policy matter doesn’t make sense,” the GOP presidential candidate told host John Dickerson on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“We have right now upwards of 12 million people living here illegally,” he said. “It doesn’t make any sense that our law automatically grants citizenship to their children, because what it does is it incentivizes additional illegal immigration.”…
Brave words for a candidate born on foreign soil whose own father’s immigration to America was legally a little iffy. Except that Ted Cruz doesn’t seem to be running for President any more — he’s running for God-King in the Republic of Gilead.
Conventional wisdom is that Cruz is now deploring “illegals” in an attempt to lure the angry racists populists once Trump gets bored. I’m sure those voters would, as Austen might phrase it, make a tidy supplement to the marks already cheering for Cruz’s long con. Which wouldn’t worry me, if there weren’t a lot of desperate women going to get hurt by his ongoing maneuvers to draw Talibangelical attention…
Ted Cruz is teaming up with 100,000 pastors to defund Planned Parenthood http://t.co/VwobKbbrui
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) August 23, 2015
The Washington Post, on the Iowa event last weekend:
… Here in Iowa, 57 percent of Republican caucus-goers identified as evangelical Christians, according to entrance polls. Cruz has been courting faith leaders here, dispatching his father Rafael, a pastor, to speak at events around the state and announcing Friday that he wants to recruit a pastor in each of Iowa’s 99 counties to do faith outreach.
Cruz’s Iowa campaign chairman, Matt Schultz, suggested Cruz was chosen by God.
Meanwhile, on the Republic of Gilead Campaign Trail…Post + Comments (68)