Re “According to your view was Barry Goldwater eligible to run for POTUS in 1964?”
Why The Republicans Are Silent On The Eligibility Issue
The Republican Party has a history of accommodating presidential candidates whose Constitutional eligibility is uncertain.
Chester Arthur — America’s first post-1787-born president, whose parents were not both U.S. citizens, was a Republican.
George Romney — ran for the Republican party nomination in 1968. He was born in Mexico.
Barry Goldwater — born (in 1909) in Phoenix, when Arizona was still territory, not yet a state.
Lowell Weicker — entered the race for the Republican party nomination of 1980 but dropped out. He was born in Paris, France.
John McCain — born in the Republic of Panama.
Bobby Jindal — a possible Republican candidate in 2012. He was born in the United States, but at the time of his birth, his parents were not U.S. citizens.
Given its history of eligibility-questionable presidential candidates, the Republican Party would be guilty of hypocrisy if it were to challenge Obama’s eligibility.
Moreover, if the Courts find that Barack Obama is ineligible, it is likely that John McCain is ineligible as well, since neither candidate was subject to sole and complete U.S. jurisdiction at the time of his birth. Should that happen, both major political parties might be required to reimburse presidential campaign financing they received from the Federal government in 2008. This would be a non-issue for the Democratic Party which accepted little, if any, Federal monies during the 2008 presidential campaign. But the McCain campaign received substantial Federal funding.
If McCain were found to be an ineligible presidential candidate, the RNC might be required to return government monies it had received in 2008 for McCain’s presidential campaign. Given the financial risk that McCain’s questionable eligibility poses, the Republican Party is likely to oppose any public discussion of McCain’s or Obama’s presidential eligibility.
http://www.theobamafile.com/_eligibility/SilentRepublicans.htm
Thank you for the list and the excellent history lesson.
The GOP should set a good example by cleaning up its own act first with regard to Presidential candidates of dubious eligibility. Mr. Arthur is a stain that can never be removed, unfortunately.
Here is the real key for how Senator Claire McCaskill D-MO totally fooled the Republicans by sponsor and bring up Resolution 511, classic RAT deception and half the American people fell for the trick, including Jack!!!
Well Beckwith: there is another explanation of the list. I’m sure it’s going to be hard for you to understand, much less accept, but here it is.
For whatever reason for over 100 years Americans have not interpreted the term “Natural Born” in the way that you do. Perhaps the “both parents were citizens, the kid is a citizen” test is the one that has had more currency.
I think all those stats are more effective as a counter argument to yours than as proof of conspiracy.