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Ted Cruz meets the birther-in-chief
Ted Cruz meets the birther-in-chiefThe Texas senator, born in Canada, comes to NYC to raise money. Will Donald Trump demand his papers?
JOAN WALSH
Fresh from the Senate filibuster vote in which he played a starring role for the losing team, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is in New York Friday to raise money from blue state infidels. But he’s also making time to see GOP carnival barker Donald Trump.
“Mr. Trump is a friend and the senator had some down time in NYC,” a Cruz spokeswoman told Politico.
Trump Tower might just be a normal stop on the road to the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, as it was in 2012. Eventual nominee Mitt Romney humiliated himself courting Trump despite his ugly birther-baiting of President Obama. Well, maybe not despite it, maybe because of it. But it did lead to some not-so-magic moments for the GOP nominee, like the time he was photographed with the Trump plane logo behind him, looking like he played for the Trump team and not the other way around.
But Cruz may have an additional agenda besides just kissing Trump’s ring and eying his wallet. In August, Trump told ABC’s “This Week” that the Canadian born senator was “perhaps not” eligible to be president.
Ironically, even though “birthers” make up a large chunk of the Tea Party, they’ve had no problem when it comes to Cruz, who was actually not born in this country (though many experts believe he is still eligible to be president). You’ve got to hand it to Trump – maybe his crazy is a consistent kind of crazy, and he’s going to give Cruz the same trouble he gave Obama?
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http://www.salon.com/2013/11/22/ted_cruz_meets_the_birther_in_chief/
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And maybe that birther shit isn't really about racism, it's just about genuine concern for the legitimacy of the constitutional process.
Maybe.
