My apologies if my question injected an unwanted overtone of partisanship, that was not my intention. I only cited Cruz because his story has been in the news recently and it's what made me think of the question. I'm a Canadian so really it doesn't matter to me whether he's eligible or not. I was merely wondering as an intellectual exercise. So any party Republican, Democrat, Independent, Whig I don't care. I don't even care if the ineligibility was something other than whether they were a natural born citizen. Maybe they forged documents to say they were 35 years old when they were in fact 34 and had someone alter databases to that effect on their behalf. Maybe they've only lived in the U.S. for 13 years when 14 is required. I really don't care why they're ineligible.
Of course I know the U.S. has the most vigorous vetting system in the world, I was merely wondering in your expert legal opinions what you believe would happen if this were to occur and let's say for argument's sake the person did not have Nixon's integrity and refused to resign and had to be removed from office. If you're not willing to speak to the question I would very respectfully and humbly ask you to extricate yourself from the conversation so that those who do care can discuss it.
Thanks for your time.