Texas senator Ted Cruz thinks he is one of the principal contenders for the Republican nomination to be the next President. He represents the Tea Party wing of the GOP, a source of much craziness and pretty much all of the current Washington gridlock.

If the GOP is not able to break free of its lunatic fringe, the cost will be high, but I am alarmed to hear some people suggest that Cruz will be stopped not at the ballot box, but in the courts. That suggestion is as silly as anything the Tea Party has ever brought into American politics, but they did indeed bring the source of it and it’s tempting to watch Cruz hoisted on his own petard. Tempting, but wrong.

The US Constitution says, in Art. II, § 5:

“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President…..”