{"id":12352,"date":"2016-01-12T22:47:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T22:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12352"},"modified":"2016-01-12T22:47:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T22:47:09","slug":"democrats-conspiring-to-nominate-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12352","title":{"rendered":"Democrats conspiring to nominate Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ted-cruz-sexy-eyes.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12296\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12296\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ted-cruz-sexy-eyes-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"ted-cruz-sexy-eyes\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ted-cruz-sexy-eyes-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ted-cruz-sexy-eyes-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ted-cruz-sexy-eyes-1024x617.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ted-cruz-sexy-eyes.jpg 1269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz might be on to something.<\/p>\n<p>He seems to believe that Democrats are conspiring to ensure that Donald J. Trump is the Republican presidential nominee. Thus, it&#8217;s the Democrats who are floating the Cruz-ain&#8217;t-eligible-to-run notion . . . allegedly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2016\/01\/12\/cruz-are-democrats-behind-trumps-citizenship-quest\/\">Trump&#8217;s been making hay<\/a>\u00a0of late over the fact that Cruz, R-Texas, was born in Canada. Therefore, the idea goes, he isn&#8217;t eligible to run for the presidency, let alone actually occupy the office.<\/p>\n<p>I happen to think Trump&#8217;s argument is more basic than that. He&#8217;s delusional and, I believe, he&#8217;s so much of an entertainer that he&#8217;d say anything to get Americans to talk about him.<\/p>\n<p>My own belief is that Cruz&#8217;s citizenship was settled the moment he was born to an American mother. End of argument, as far as I&#8217;m concerned.<\/p>\n<p>However, pundits keep raising the Cruz citizenship issue simply because it comes from Trump, who for the moment is the GOP frontrunner. Trump&#8217;s standing at the top of the polls gives his words a certain <em>gravitas. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>As for whether Democrats are working in cahoots with Trump, though, seems to suggest a certain fear of running against, say, Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to think Democrats would relish the idea of running against Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>Having declared my <em>disbelief<\/em> in a Democrat-Trump co-conspiracy, absolutely nothing &#8212; not a damn thing &#8212; would surprise me at this point.<\/p>\n<p>This campaign has taken so many twists and turns I&#8217;m getting motion sickness watching it unfold.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz might be on to something. He seems to believe that Democrats are conspiring to ensure that Donald J. Trump is the Republican presidential nominee. Thus, it&#8217;s the Democrats who are floating the Cruz-ain&#8217;t-eligible-to-run notion . . . allegedly. Trump&#8217;s been making hay\u00a0of late over the fact that Cruz, R-Texas, was born &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12352\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democrats conspiring to nominate Trump?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1424,4537,5857,5043],"class_list":["post-12352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-ted-cruz","tag-us-citizenship","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12355,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352\/revisions\/12355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}