Opinion / Commentary  Ted Cruz, accidental Canadian, hits the
highway: Mallick  Texas Senator Ted Cruz has renounced
citizenship. He’ll be sorry.  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz would rather
wrap himself in the Stars and Stripes than the Maple Leaf. (July
15, 2013)  Drew Angerer / GETTY IMAGES   So. Farewell then, Ted
Cruz. You are leaving us for American buckshot, climes and
unaffordable health care. Is it something we said?  Cruz, a Tea
Partying senator from Texas — disliked by both Democrats and
Republicans for being rude, rebarbative and patronizing, and
also for his weird resemblance to Sen. Joe McCarthy — was born
in Calgary. He is renouncing the Canadian citizenship he
suddenly claims not to know he had been burdened with. He wants
to be president, a job open only to natural-born Americans. How
painful it must have been to be told “You’re Canadian. Polite.
Mild-mannered.”  Sings he now “O beautiful for spacious skies,
for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties, above
the fruited plain!” where once he