Why has no one shut down the Ted Cruz for president nonsense? [View all]

[SoCalDem]

I am annoyed to the nth degree at how the media is gushing over his presidential aspirations...and how no one steps up when he says shit like "That's for other people to decide" when asked about his CANADIAN birthplace.

The fact that he's a teaparty guy whose supporters have assaulted the current president and who once upon a time (2K) had snickered about their own potential candidate (Walnuts) for having been born in Panama (but the tea party then.,.but the same sorts of people)

Cruz was not born in the USA..we have long associated the "natural-born" citizen thing to mean IN THE US OR ON A MILITARY BASE outside the US..

Not in Canada or anywhere else.

I know that Romney tried to run way back in the day, but no one thought he was a viable candidate so they never wasted much time going into the weeds about how he was from Mexico..

Cruz is another story. He is determined to suck all the oxygen out of any room he enters, so the time to shut him down is N.O.W.