Now, whether their definition is constitutionally legal is not the point here; it's their support, or, in Senator Cruz's presidential bid case, their lack of support, which will doom not only his presidential nomination chances, but will also potentially hasten the beginning of the very downfall of his national political career.
Clearly, these essential champions of the Cruz base aren't the wacko-birthers who still believe President Obama's Hawaii birth certificate is a forgery, and/or that he was actually born in Kenya.
No, this vital section of the Cruz base - without whose full support I contend he has no hope in Hades to even come close to winning any Party's nomination for President without - are natural-born birthers who sincerely believe exactly what I stated above: that a "natural-born” citizen is only one whose parents were American citizens at the time of his/her birth, and who was born on American soil.
These natural-born birthers do not discredit President Obama because of any political brouhaha over a birth certificate; they initially do not consider President Obama to be a "natural-born" citizen, and thus constitutionally unqualified to be President, simply because both of his parents weren't American citizens at the time of his birth - the exact unnatural case as Senator Cruz's.
There is also no hope that Senator Cruz can present any case to these invaluable supporters of his that can change their minds on this, a tremendously critical, constitutional matter for them. To them, he has three large strikes already against him:
1. Born with dual citizenship (Canada and the United States);
2. Not born on American soil;
3. Father not an American citizen at the time of the younger Cruz's birth.
In fact, Senator Cruz is naturally torn between three national identity loyalties:
1. Canada, the country of his natural birth;
2. the United States, the country of his mother's natural birth;
3. Cuba, the country of his father's natural birth.
This is not in any way a negative assessment of the good Senator's heritage; it's simply the factual recording of it and the rendering of the practical human fact that all of us hold dear our own natural heritages. And that all of our heritages are different. And that there is a stark, defining difference between a President who is naturally born loyal to the United States of America only, and a citizen whose native heritage is as loyally divided as Senator Cruz's naturally is.
Can a man truly - practically - renounce his citizenship of the land of his natural birth? Sure he can; after all, Senator Cruz did. But why would any man renounce his natural citizenship of such a great nation as Canada?
Hours from now, Senator Cruz is reportedly going to announce his run for the Republican nomination for President of the United States of America in the 2016 general election: Senator Cruz had to renounce his Canadian citizenship a while back to eventually make this move he's been planning for some time now.
However, I have no doubt he and his strategists know maybe better than me that he cannot count on the firmest of his base - the natural-born birthers - to support him in what they consider a constitutionally impossible quest. And without the full support of those most loyal to him now, what actual hope can be possibly have to secure the GOP nomination next year?
And if he insists on dismissing so casually their constitutionally heart-felt principles on such a grave matter as natural-born citizenship, how in the world can he possibly expect any further serious political support from them?
So, the question then is: why is Senator Cruz going to actually announce what he surely knows is an impossible quest, an impossible quest that will just as surely alienate many of his previously staunchest supporters?
The obvious answer is what has the potential to almost totally dismantle whatever political uniqueness one of America's current firebrands has built-up so far. For doing it just to garner the multi-millions in political campaign capital and influence will be seen-through by his base even more shamefully than his running for President as not a natural-born citizen, and that will be a Brutusfully mortal wound to a political man who can't really afford any more partisan stabs than he's already absorbed. For if his natural-born base abandons him, Senator Cruz will become irrelevant nationally very quickly.
Rather than announcing today his candidacy for the Republican nomination for President of the United States of America, Senator Cruz should instead fully surrender the unnatural ambition he has for the highest Office in this land.
Ted Cruz is a great United States Senator, and that hallowed chamber needs him right now far, far more than America needs another unnatural-born Presidential candidate campaigning for the next year and a half as disingenuously as the last unnatural-born candidate did.
America needs Cruz standing tall in the Senate to block any treaty with the Islamic Republic of Iran that evens sniffs of those Twelver terrorists ever getting close to building a nuke. Senator Cruz needs to go to war against the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank, so that America's longest standing piece of socialist, crony capitalist crap can finally be done away with forever.
Senator Cruz should instead campaign for Rand Paul for President in 2016 so he can be President Rand's first nomination to the Supreme Court, because Justice Cruz's outstanding constitutional leadership in the tumultuous years ahead for our great nation is naturally within his dutifully qualified grasp, and a resurgent constitutional America will dearly need his grand counsel.
Alas, Senator Cruz will not only be wasting his practical breath when he announces his candidacy later this morning, because by doing so he is also very likely throwing away a whole bunch of substantial TEA Party support simply because the non-wackos in that gang do not consider him to be a natural-born citizen at all.
Instead of March 23, 2015, being one of expectantly celebrated ascension for Senator Cruz, this day might very well turn out to be the beginning of his political downfall within his own base.