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RUSH: Well, we\u2019re getting closer to the day that actual votes are going to happen, which is why all of this kerfuffle is effervescing up and boiling over. I mean, the nonsense on whether or not Ted Cruz is a natural born citizen. It\u2019s stunning.<\/p>\n

Greetings, folks. Great to have you here on the Rush Limbaugh program and the EIB Network. The telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nThe latest to join this bandwagon suggesting that Ted Cruz may want to actually go to court and get some confirmation on the fact he\u2019s a citizen, it could be a problem out there, John McCain. John McCain is now officially questioning Ted Cruz\u2019s eligibility to run for the presidency. It\u2019s getting into bizarro territory here. Remember, now, McCain was born in Panama, and his presidential eligibility is the same and based on the same constitutionality as is Ted Cruz\u2019s. It\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n

Folks, I left the program yesterday, and this was the subject we were laughing about, the way Trump was talking about it and raising the issue but not opining on it. And because the Republican establishment is scared to death of either one of them winning, the gears got into full motion and people started investigating this constitutionally, intellectually. You would not believe, one website probably has 75,000 words written on this. And the 75,000 words include the learned opinions of countless other scholars on whether or not Ted Cruz is actually an American citizen.<\/p>\n

Just a couple stories that tell you what\u2019s going on. “Fearing Trump and Cruz, Republicans look to Rubio<\/a>.” That\u2019s in TheHill.com. Over here Politico: “Trump and Cruz Send Shivers Down GOP Spines<\/a>.” They are turning to Rubio as their last great hope in the establishment.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the eligibility question is an interesting political development because it is gonna be explored, it is gonna be a distraction. The Democrats are gonna milk it for all it\u2019s worth because of what happened to Obama and the birthers. And despite the fact that there\u2019s no similarity or commonality in the two claims, they\u2019re still gonna rely on the low-information voters\u2019 ignorance of this and act like, “Hey, this is fun. You know, you guys did it to Obama, we got a chance to do it to you,” so that\u2019s why they\u2019re gonna get in on it.<\/p>\n

The others are gonna get in on it because Cruz is leading in Iowa, and Cruz is gaining traction in other states. So is Chris Christie in some places, and Trump is holding steady, depending on the poll, 39, 41, and so forth. But all of this is gonna change when there are actual votes, when the Hawkeye Cauci actually happens on February 1st, then all of this goes out the window and brand-new paradigms are created.<\/p>\n

Let me give you a couple scenarios, just hypotheticals, just for the fun of it. Hawkeye Cauci. Let\u2019s say that the advance polling data is right and Ted Cruz wins. Okay, no surprise there, but this isn\u2019t polling data anymore. This is actual results of Iowans who\u2019ve braved whatever elements there were to go out to their various community centers, get together, chat about it, and caucus. And it was all over, Ted Cruz wins. Even though it\u2019s expected, it still is real. And another aspect of the reality is that Trump does not win.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Now, I don\u2019t care what people think, that is going to change the entire paradigm, once you go from polling data to reality. Look at Howard Dean. It\u2019s not exactly identical, \u2019cause Howard Dean was leading going into Iowa in, I think it was 2004. Aand Howard Dean was presumed, I mean, he was kicking butt all over the Democrat Party. He loses Iowa, and the shock was so great, not only to him, but everybody else. That was it, one thing out of expectations, one thing that did not happen that was expected to happen, and he\u2019s finished. And it was after that that he went nuts on TV and started, “Aaarrrgggh!” as he attempted to fire his troops up for New Hampshire. But it was over for Howard Dean.<\/p>\n

Now, it won\u2019t be over for whoever loses Iowa, if Cruz wins, because that\u2019s the expectation. But it\u2019s still gonna be a real defeat, not a polling defeat. So you\u2019re gonna have the Republican establishment go into gear with different energy levels and different areas of focus, because they\u2019re gonna be inspired, motivated by Cruz winning, which is gonna scare the heck out of \u2019em, and Trump losing, which is gonna just make \u2019em happier than they can imagine being. So they\u2019re gonna want to head Cruz off at the path in New Hampshire and make sure that Trump does not recover.<\/p>\n

So we move on to New Hampshire. Let\u2019s say that somebody besides Trump wins New Hampshire in our little hypothetical here. Well, now you\u2019ve got a paradigm that really is going to switch because here you have Trump, who has been leading in every one of these national polls, and it isn\u2019t even close. He\u2019s at 39 — what is it today? He\u2019s at 41.7 in the Reuters rolling presidential poll that they\u2019re taking, Trump at 41.7%. You got Cruz at 13.7. Carson at 10.6 and Rubio at 8.2 and the rest of them are underneath that and don\u2019t even merit mention. Hypothetically, let\u2019s say Trump does not win New Hampshire, either, there\u2019s two where the de facto favorite, where many people are now writing it\u2019s over, that Trump is the nominee. I mean, you have this being written in the Drive-By Media, the Washington Post, you got it written in conservative media, you\u2019ve got it written in — well, everywhere. Examples of all kinds of media, there are people who are thinking that it\u2019s all over.<\/p>\n


\nWell, what happens if Trump loses both? It\u2019s gonna change the dynamic like you can\u2019t imagine. Even though there are many more states to go, still have South Carolina and the SEC primary where Trump does well. Guarantee you, when people start winning Iowa and New Hampshire, it boosts them. It does not boost the people that lose. Now, Clinton lost both of them, just to show you, and he ended up winning the nomination later in later states. That\u2019s why he\u2019s called the comeback kid.<\/p>\n

I think Clinton lost New Hampshire back in 1992. I have to double-check that. But Clinton was not taken seriously until April or May of 1992. George H.W. Bush wasn\u2019t even paying him any attention. Nobody thought Bill Clinton had a prayer! In fact, Clinton probably didn\u2019t think he had a prayer. Clinton entered 1992 setting the stage for later, and he ended up winning the thing. So nobody knows what\u2019s gonna happen. But when the actual votes begin to happen and there are actual results, then it changes everything. The winners get boosted. The losers have questions raised about them.<\/p>\n

Expectations are reexamined. It just changes everything. That\u2019s why all of this right now is nothing more than academic at the time and to the extent that they can tell us what happens. So we have this pursuit of Cruz now on this citizenship, which is folly. It\u2019s utter folly. But it\u2019s a chance for people to demonstrate their education and their intellectual prowess and their understanding of the Constitution. And it\u2019s serious. I don\u2019t mean to relegate it to the unserious. But nothing\u2019s gonna happen. I mean, Cruz is not gonna end up being proclaimed not a citizen. It could well be that this derails his campaign.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying that won\u2019t happen, but they\u2019re not gonna succeed in going into court and have Ted Cruz told by a court, “Hey, Mr. Cruz, we\u2019ve just discovered you\u2019re not a citizen. Leave the country! Turn in your passport and go back to Canada.” It isn\u2019t gonna happen. But that doesn\u2019t have to happen. All they have to do is start raising doubts and distract Cruz and make him talk about it all the time. He\u2019s handling it very well right now about joking about it in terms of how Trump is approaching the issue and so forth. So I don\u2019t mean to say it isn\u2019t serious, and I\u2019m trying to sound condescending to people taking it seriously.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s an opportunity for a lot of people to show their chops, demo their chops on the Constitution. I mean, here\u2019s what this really is all about. It\u2019s right out of the Constitution. It is very, very simple. It\u2019s Article 2, Section 1. “No person except a natural born citizen…” I\u2019m telling you, I went to a blog site, and there\u2019s a 75,000-word article on “natural born citizen,” what it means. I thought, “You know what? I could print that out, I could read that whole piece, and it\u2019d be my program today. I could take the day off; just read that piece. At the end of that you\u2019d think I\u2019m nuts or brilliant.”<\/p>\n

But 75,000 words! That\u2019s a wild guess. But it printed out to 20 pages. “No person except a natural born citizen or a citizen of it United States, at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of 35 years, and been 14 years a resident within the United States.” There\u2019s nothing else. You can have an IQ of 20. You can be dumb, stupid. You can be poor, you can be uneducated. None of that matters. You just have to be a natural born citizen, gotta be 35 years old, and you have to have lived within the United States for 14 years.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it. So when people raise the question, “‘Natural born citizen\u2019? What\u2019s that mean?” ‘Cause it doesn\u2019t appear anywhere else in the Constitution. It\u2019s not defined. The founders do not define what natural born citizen is, which means that back in the day they wrote it… It\u2019s why original intent\u2019s so important, folks, when you analyze the Constitution. “What did they mean? What did ‘natural born citizen\u2019 mean at the time they wrote it?” It\u2019s a derivative from British common law which meant natural born subject. And, I\u2019m telling you, this… Andy McCarthy writes about this today<\/a>, and he\u2019s right.<\/p>\n


\nThis whole notion of natural born citizen honestly, folks, has been the subject of political controversy for over 100 years. It dates back to Chester Arthur, who the Democrats at the time alleged was born in Canada, not Vermont. McCain, Barack Hussein O, George Romney, have all had their eligibility questioned, as have Rubio, Bobby Jindal, and Ted Cruz. They are the subject of this constitutional debate today with the focus now lately on Cruz. But the term “natural born citizen” is not defined in the Constitution.<\/p>\n

It is not explained in the writings or the history of those who framed the Constitution, nor is it in a demonstrable common and clear understanding in the former British colonies at the time, and the Supreme Court has never ruled on it and probably never will. “Natural born” is not used anywhere in the Constitution. Its origins are unclear. It is assumed to be derived, as I say, from the British common stature law governing natural born subjects. And therein provides the wide opening for everybody to mad dash into and define it themselves as to their particular benefit.<\/p>\n

There are essentially two ends of the spectrum here about which everybody agrees, in terms of the meaning of “natural born citizen.” 1. A person born in the United States to parents, both whom are United States citizens. Obviously, you\u2019re natural born. You\u2019re born here. Your parents are citizens. Bammo, you\u2019re a citizen. Nobody questions it, and you\u2019re natural born. By the way, if you Planned Parenthood aficionados are listening, it has nothing to do with artificial wombs and all that. That\u2019s not what “natural born” means. We can rule that out right now. We\u2019re not talking about test tubes here.<\/p>\n

Although we might somewhere down the road. You never know. And the other end of the spectrum is a person born outside the United States to parents, neither of who is a United States citizen, is not a natural born citizen. Nobody disagrees with that. Even if citizenship is obtained through naturalization later, that is not natural born citizen. So if you\u2019re a naturalized citizen — born somewhere else, your parents are not Americans — and if you come here and become a citizen? “Sorry, you\u2019re not qualified. Too bad.”<\/p>\n

Now, Rubio, Jindal, and Cruz, as did Obama, fall between these two points on the spectrum here. Rubio and Jindal born in the US to parents neither of whom was a citizen at the time that he was born here. So, bammo. Ted Cruz was born in Canada to parents, one of whom (his mother) was a US citizen, and as far as the best minds have worked on this, that alone qualifies Cruz. Now, Trump months ago… We had the audio sound bite yesterday. Months ago, Trump said of Cruz, “Ah, it\u2019s not about that.”<\/p>\n

Trump says, “Cruz is perfectly fine. It\u2019s not a problem here. I looked into it; we have no problem with Cruz.” Now, yesterday Cruz becomes the focus point of Trump. “Weeeeell, I don\u2019t know. I might be a little nervous. He might want to get clarification.” That\u2019s all it took to get the media revved up and create this distraction now that is designed to distract Cruz, raise doubts, weaken support, all of these things. It\u2019s \u2019cause Cruz is the front-runner now in the Hawkeye Cauci.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Dan in Cocoa, Florida, as we move back to the phones. Hi, Dan. Glad you called. I appreciate you waiting. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey.<\/p>\n


\nCALLER: My comment is that our famed senator from Arizona, John McCain, I don\u2019t remember him ever questioning Obama\u2019s right or ability to run for president.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I think you\u2019re right. In fact, it\u2019s worse than that. You remember, McCain had a rally somewhere in Ohio. It was Cincinnati. And he had somebody introduce him, and in talking about Obama, called him Barack Hussein Obama. And McCain fired that guy. McCain publicly went out and threw that guy who had introduced him, warmed up the crowd for him, threw him overboard. (imitating McCain) “We don\u2019t talk about President Obama that way, Senator Obama, Hussein, that\u2019s prejudice, you don\u2019t do it here.” You\u2019re right. I don\u2019t remember him ever questioning Obama\u2019s citizenship. But here he is joining the fray on Cruz. Doesn\u2019t surprise you, does it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: One other comment, if I could.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sure. Go ahead.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, they talked about the Christian country used to abandoned the slavery in 1864. I don\u2019t think the Muslim countries have ever abandoned slavery.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, you could make that case if you wanted to talk about women, yes. Interesting. Still, McCain has joined the fray here on Cruz and his citizenship. McCain is, “Yes, I think it\u2019s a problem, I think he should maybe call lawyer.” But he never said that about Obama that I can recall? Do you? I don\u2019t recall Obama being questioned whatsoever by McCain in practically any aspect.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I got a couple e-mails, I checked them during the break. Some of you think that I\u2019m not taking this seriously. I don\u2019t want you think that. That\u2019s not the case. But I don\u2019t think it also is… I know fully well what\u2019s going on here. I remember back when the whole Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill thing hit. We were in the middle of the confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas, and I was in Oklahoma City. It was Saturday, during a Rush to Excellence performance that night at a giant arena in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n

That afternoon is when Anita Hill had come forward with all of these allegations, and I can\u2019t tell you how livid I was. I just was burning up, and I spent the entire afternoon… This wasn\u2019t… It wasn\u2019t as easy. You didn\u2019t Google anything back then. I mean, it was difficult to… Well, not difficult. It was much different the way you gathered information back then, and I broomed 90% of what I had planned. I spent the whole hour and a half, two hours talking about that. It burned me up. Now, I know that many of you supporters of Cruz probably think that this is similar and has you just as angry as I was during that circumstance.<\/p>\n


\nThat had a real, real chance of destroying Clarence Thomas\u2019s life — and, of course, defeating the nomination, \u2019cause these were his confirmation hearings, and this was occurring under the auspices of the Senate Judiciary Committee. And by virtue of that, it was given automatic weight and credibility. And it was a lynching. It was. There\u2019s no question that Clarence Thomas was right; it was “a high-tech lynching” that they launched at the very… Not the very end, but close to the end of it, because Clarence was gonna get confirmed. And they just couldn\u2019t abide it.<\/p>\n

This was Thurgood Marshall\u2019s seat, and nobody had a right to be in it who wasn\u2019t a doctrinaire, left-wing liberal extraordinaire African-American. Clarence Thomas, a conservative? No way. And they just launched every lie in the book. Now, this, with Cruz and his citizenship, you could say that it has many of the same ingredients. Here we are with Cruz leading three weeks out from the Iowa caucus, and we\u2019ve had the issue already been part of the political fabric with Obama and so forth. What\u2019s interesting about this to me (in addition to all these other things) is note that nobody, apparently, knows how to, wants to, or can go after Ted Cruz on substance.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care whether it\u2019s Trump or anybody else. They\u2019re not going after Ted Cruz on the substance of his beliefs, his policies, his conservatism. I mean, you have people who, in a blanket, generalized way, they attack conservatives as an alien life form. But the specifics of Cruz and his proposals? You have people who have attempted… I mean, this is all over the blogosphere yesterday. There were people attempting to say that Ted Cruz had caved in his opposition to ethanol, and he had not. He had not said one thing different. But because of the way it was reported, people who know better — people in the conservative blogosphere, people conservative media who know full well how the media does things — fell for a misleading headline and lead in the story.<\/p>\n

“Oh, no, Ted Cruz has caved! Oh, my God,” and they think nothing is sacred.<\/p>\n

Now, one thing about conservatives, they are waiting for whoever it is they trust to turn on them. It\u2019s one of these things they fear and expect, and so all it took was a misreported headline and lead, people were made to believe that Cruz had caved on ethanol, which he hadn\u2019t. He said one thing different. He might have been a little too cute in an answer to a question, but the substance was that he wants it phased out, the ethanol subsidies and mandatory usage, phased out by 2022, five years, essentially. But he answered in a different way, which allowed people to write that he had caved on it.<\/p>\n


\nBut aside from that, nobody\u2019s going after Cruz on substance. The way they\u2019re now going after Cruz, “Oh, he\u2019s not qualified, he\u2019s not eligible.” And of course it\u2019s gonna have legs, and I\u2019ll tell you something else. If Cruz wins, folks, if he wins the nomination, if he\u2019s elected president, this is not gonna go away. There will be lawsuits filed. There were lawsuits filed against Obama, lawsuits filed against government officials all the time. It isn\u2019t going to go away. And Cruz knows it.<\/p>\n

The worst thing Cruz could do is deal with this head on in such a way that he\u2019s really bothered by it, make it look like there might be something there and then be distracted by it. The way he\u2019s dealing with this is right on, treating it as a joke, Trump\u2019s jumped the shark, this guy is saying — not make the mistake of not taking it seriously, but don\u2019t allow it to bring everything to a screeching halt, and don\u2019t ask righteously indignant and offended over it. This is what happens in politics.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s for that reason that, to me, it\u2019s part and parcel — it was gonna be something. Somebody was gonna do something to go after Cruz; he\u2019s a front-runner. And it doesn\u2019t surprise me that it\u2019s Trump. Trump does not want to lose in Iowa, and he certainly doesn\u2019t want to lose in New Hampshire. So not taking it seriously in any way, manner, or form. I\u2019m trying to keep it in perspective more than anything else.
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\nRUSH: Donald in Maryland, it\u2019s great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much, Rush, for taking my call. Long-term listener, first-time caller.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Great to have you out there, Donald. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My comment — and I think you\u2019ll agree with this, and I\u2019ll be interested to hear your take on it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The democratic liberal establishment for years has had an arsenal that has been hard to overcome, and that is the federal judiciary. I am very concerned that this situation with Cruz has never been settled in federal court and that the Democrats will use the federal judiciary like they\u2019re using right now with Planned Parenthood and other social issues over the last 35 years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you are thinking that they have the federal courts so packed with politically friendly judges that they could actually find a court that would rule Cruz ineligible?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m concerned that the fact that we have a congressman that\u2019s a real liberal ideologue in Florida, that is —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me guess. You\u2019re talking about Alan Grayson?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. He\u2019s been making threats since November, and I\u2019m afraid that what they will do is go into court and create a black cloud and that this will drag on, and it will create a problem, actually much like he did for President Obama, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but see, that\u2019s the thing. With Obama, it didn\u2019t stop him because the political forces you\u2019re talking about were on his side. The lawsuits continued even after Obama was in office. Let me tell people what Grayson\u2019s doing since you bring him up. Alan Grayson is an attorney, he\u2019s a Democrat Senate candidate. He\u2019s wacko, he\u2019s Loony Tunes, he\u2019s been in the House of Representatives, really off the charts, and he\u2019s told US News and World Report that he\u2019s gonna file a lawsuit challenging Cruz\u2019s eligibility if he overtakes Trump and wins the nomination. Only if he wins the nomination, Grayson says, is he gonna do this. And you\u2019re worried that they can find a judge, highly politicized, friendly to Obama and the Democrats, who will say, “Yep, yep, I\u2019m looking at this, and Mr. Cruz, you\u2019re not qualified to run for president.” That\u2019s what you\u2019re worried is gonna happen, after he gets the nomination?<\/p>\n

CALLER: — all the time when it comes to the Constitution, in my opinion. And I\u2019m very afraid that what will happen is that the federal judiciary and an Obama appointee but also possibly a Clinton appointee going back 25 years —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n


\nCALLER: — will use this situation, and that\u2019s been a very powerful arsenal in achieving the liberal agenda over the last 35 or 40 years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, let me ask you a strategic question, Donald. You know that this can happen. I mean, you think you can\u2019t. You\u2019re prepared for it. You have to think that everybody else involved, Cruz, others would be prepared for it. What can be done? If your scenario plays out, what can be done?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, obviously, as you alluded to a little earlier, Senator Cruz, if he\u2019s successful, he\u2019s gonna have to pursue the nomination while at the same time having to deal with this circumstance. And while I do not like making a comparison to the Obama administration, which I abhor and do not and have a never supported —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — he will have to basically do the same thing that the current president did, I\u2019m afraid of.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, here\u2019s the thing, though. I don\u2019t think anybody ever thought that this is gonna go anywhere with Obama, but you\u2019re thinking it could go somewhere with Cruz. That\u2019s the difference. Obama was never, ever going to be found ineligible. It was never gonna happen. Everybody knew it. You\u2019re not sure that that\u2019s the case with Cruz?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Well, we\u2019re getting closer to the day that actual votes are going to happen, which is why all of this kerfuffle is effervescing up and boiling over. I mean, the nonsense on whether or not Ted Cruz is a natural born citizen. It\u2019s stunning. Greetings, folks. 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