Posted on 07/15/2011 12:19:50 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
...Don’t overlook Nikki Haley, the exciting new governor of South Carolina. Perry and Haley have today together signed an op-ed in The Washington Post titled Break the spend-and-borrow cycle.
Perry first nationally challenged federal bailouts in December 2008. He and then-governor of South Carolina Mark Sanford challenged other governors to join them in opposition. It was a revolutionary moment and became prelude to the Tea Party. They wrote then in The Wall Street Journal: "As governors and citizens, we've grown increasingly concerned over the past weeks as Washington has thrown bailout after bailout at the national economy with little to show for it ... In the process, the federal government is not only burying future generations under mountains of debt. It is also taking our country in a very dangerous direction — toward a ‘bailout mentality’ where we look to government rather than ourselves for solutions."
It is interesting that Haley, who replaced Sanford, has picked up the thread and tag-teamed again with Perry. She repeats again and again that she does not want to be selected for vice president; that she is only now the “flavor of the month” as a new governor, but she is an extraordinary individual from an extraordinary family and it is hard to imagine a more perfect candidate....
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Well, they’re certainly a telegenic couple. And their names are only one to two syllables each. So they meet all the superficial requirements. :-)
However, Ms. Haley needs a bit more experience than a few months as governor to be a serious candidate. And I’m still not sure my Governor Goodhair is what I want in a POTUS.
I’ve seen worse proposals for 2012 POTUS tickets, however.
Like Romney and anyone, for example.
Haley is not a natural born citizen.
Say ‘No’ to Gov. Good Hair.
Nikki Haley: Born January 20, 1972 - Bamberg, South Carolina, U.S.
Last time I checked, South Carolina was still one of these United States of America.
Haley is not a natural born citizen.
Where her parents not nationalized at the time of her birth?
From all accounts, they were not. Same goes for Rubio and Jindal.
I knew they were from India but didn’t know the status at the time of her birth.
Last time I checked, her parents were not US citizens at the time of her birth.
I wish I could get past the uncomfortable feeling that the GOP seems challenged to compete for the affirmative action vote
Ms Haley is probably a good governor but she is an amateur. If she was male she wouldnt get so much attention and if Bobbie Jindal was WASP he wouldnt get so much attention either.
There are so many promising goevrnors coming up in to the national spotlight.
Ever heard of Paul LePage?
http://www.maine.gov/governor/lepage/about/index.shtml
Last time I checked, the US Supreme Court decides on what is constitutional or not, who is natural born or not, not you.
Last time I checked, we live in a republic, sparky.
Last time *I* checked they weren’t doing a very good job, “sparky.”
You should be on your hands and knees praying in gratitude that we have a Roberts court and not a Ruth Bader Ginsberg court.
That Supreme Court you despise so much is the only thing keeping this government on a leash.
Perry / Bachmann or Perry / West
John McCain had to jump through hoops to prove his eligibility yet Obama got a free pass. Isuggest you brush up on this little gem:
Article 2 - The Executive Branch
Section 1 - The President
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; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
The Author of the 14th Amendment laid it out:
John Bingham stated in the House of Representatives in 1862:
Who are natural-born citizens but those born in the Republic? […] [P]ersons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens. Gentleman can find no exception to this statement touching natural-born citizens except what is said in the Constitution relating to Indians.[10]
He reiterated his statement in 1866:
Every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.[11]
I couldn’t care less about your birther propaganda.
I deal with reality, not your misguided fantasies.
The US Supreme Court interprets the Constitution, regardless if I am a noob or if you have been around here for a hundred years.
Can you dispute this fact or not?
Learn how to argue like a man instead of like a liberal.
By the way, as a matter of personal preference, I’d prefer that the president have two American parents, but, like I said, I deal with the world as it exists, not in fantasy.
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