Rand Paul yesterday declared that Ted Cruz is definitely qualified to be the prime minister of Canada. As for president of the United States, he won’t say. Via Talking Points Memo:
“You know, I’m not an expert on the natural-born clause in the Constitution and people have various opinions,” Paul said. “Some people believe it means you need to be born here, some people believe it means you can be born in another country as long as your parents are citizens.”
“It is interesting, and I think sometimes people point out that it’s a double standard, in the sense that people went out, hot and heavy, including Donald Trump you know, about President Obama when there was really nothing more than conjecture that he wasn’t born in the country,” Paul continued. “And yet, there hasn’t been really the same outrage at all for someone who actually is born in another country.”
Canadians, we’re quite sure, would object.