I thought McCain was a military brat and so therefore he could be born wherever he wanted because his father was at base. Bruce Willis was born in former West Germany but on a military base there, so technically even he would be eligible to run for president.
I have also heard that because Cruz's mother is an American citizen, he is still eligible to run. Which still boggles my mind about the hubbub over Obama: even if he was in fact born in Kenya, he would still be eligible to become POTUS because Ann Dunham, his mother, was still an American citizen. He could have been born on Mars as long as one parent was American.
(NB: It would be great if he's related to Lena Dunham.) 
But yeah, I know birtherism was never about the constitution or the rule of law. It was about "he's too brown to be president, so let's throw in doubts about whether he's 'one of us'." They don't really care about Latinos either. Cruz is "eligible" in their eyes only because he doesn't have the same complexion as George Lopez. It's all about being white enough.
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