Canadian born Ted Cruz gets birther treatment from Donald Trump
I know this is a rather shallow blog post. I simply had to write it. Poetic justice is a powerful thing.
It should have been expected that an ascending Canadian born Ted Cruz would cause Donald Trump to go birther at some point. Well, he finally has. Lawrence O’Donnell’s piece is rather funny. Trump did not believe there was a citizenship problem until Ted Cruz became a threat. Now he has changed the script.
According to the Washington Post:
LOWELL, Mass. — Donald Trump said in an interview that rival Ted Cruz’s Canadian birthplace was a “very precarious” issue that could make the senator from Texas vulnerable if he became the Republican presidential nominee.
“Republicans are going to have to ask themselves the question: ‘Do we want a candidate who could be tied up in court for two years?’ That’d be a big problem,” Trump said when asked about the topic. “It’d be a very precarious one for Republicans because he’d be running and the courts may take a long time to make a decision. You don’t want to be running and have that kind of thing over your head.”
Trump added: “I’d hate to see something like that get in his way. But a lot of people are talking about it and I know that even some states are looking at it very strongly, the fact that he was born in Canada and he has had a double passport.”
Cruz responded to Trump’s comments on Twitter later Tuesday evening by referring to an iconic episode of the sitcom “Happy Days,” in which the character Fonzie jumps over a shark on water skis. The image has become a symbol of something shopworn and overdone.
So here is the big question. Will those in the Right Wing that harassed President Obama for almost a decade give Ted Cruz the same treatment? To be clear, President Obama was born in the U.S. of an American mother and a Kenyan father. Ted Cruz was born in Canada of an American mother and a Cuban father. Whose American citizenship is really questionable? This Cruz supporter describes the birthers in a microcosm.