The irony is so delicious, isn’t it? There is, of course, the surface level irony of the party that brayed nonsensically about Obama’s legitimacy for 8 years turning the fire hose on itself. That alone is awesome. But there is also another layer of irony that I’m enjoying.
There is the irony that Cruz himself is a huge proponent and avid practitioner of anti-factualism. For Cruz, facts simply don’t matter. Facts, to candidates for the GOP nomination, are more worthless than a bicycle to a fish.
Knowing this, Cruz after initially tried to laugh off Trump’s birther questions with a Happy Days clip. But as the story builds and more GOPers hop on the birther bandwagon, Cruz is now looking to FACTS to bail him out of this. Hilarious. Listen to Cruz on the topic of his Canadian eligibility to be President.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday dismissed his presidential rival Donald Trump’s suggestion that his birth certificate could cause him problems in the 2016 election as “political noise.”
In audio captured by MSNBC, Cruz told reporters outside his campaign bus in Iowa, “As a legal matter, the question is quite straightforward and settled law that the child of a U.S. citizen born abroad is a natural born citizen. People will continue to make political noise about it but as a legal matter it is quite straightforward.”
Cruz is speaking here AS IF SETTLED FACTS MATTERED. He is like a Jehovah’s Witness with a broken leg who suddenly thinks modern hospitals are pretty cool. That is the best part of all this. What’s the old saying? Nobody likes lawyers, until you need one. If you are a GOP candidate for your party’s nomination, I guess the same can be said of facts.