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To: humblegunner
Politijim,
First of all, I think we need some supportable evidence that Marco Rubio is not eligible to be VP. Second of all, if you allow the selection of a conservative VP candidate to be the key to your decision on whether to vote against Obama or not, then you are not particularly capable of assessing priorities and analyzing outcomes. Perhaps you should refrain from blogging. Go back home and be the closet liberal that you are.
13 posted on 06/23/2012 3:19:13 PM PDT by ex_desert_cowboy
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To: ex_desert_cowboy

Er.. I’m not Politijim.

Or any kind of blogger at all.


22 posted on 06/23/2012 3:30:32 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: ex_desert_cowboy
"First of all, I think we need some supportable evidence that Marco Rubio is not eligible to be VP."

Let's assume you are simply naive ex_cowboy. You are certainly not alone. Try this:

“At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens,

Those words came from the unanimous decsion written by Chief Justice Morrison Waite in Minor v. Happersett.

How about:

"“I find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that 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….”

Those were the words spoken to and recorded in the Congressional Globe by Congressman John Bingham - Judge, Abolitionist, and author of the 14th Amendment. Bingham was explaining the context of the amendment, based upon Article 1 Section 8, establishing the need for Congress to create an uniform code for Naturalization. He repeated the unchanged class of citizenship established by the framers, the never doubted class of natural born citizens. While the sovereign states each defined citizenship in their own way until 1866, and Congress tinkered with it a bit until after the Civil War, when the need to make Slaves citizens was essential, and the Southern States were too weak fight back. The Constitution needed to specify the federal requirement for a president. Wong Kim Ark was made a citizen, not natural born, based upon the 14th Amendment, because he was born to alien parents.

The evidence is voluminous. Our parties, all three, now find the legal definition inconvenient, embarrassing, and perhaps, legally risky, since every Senator signed Senate Resolution 511 in April of 2008 proving that they knew the truth. They refused to vet Obama because that way McCain would be allowed to run uncontested, in spite of the six hearings which couldn't resolve his ineligibility, including the Obama/McCaskill Senate Bill 2678, the ‘‘Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act’’. which failed to pass the Democrat Senate in February of 2008. Why do you think Obama and McCaskill, Obama’s campaign manager, would work so hard, two Senate actions for McCain in three months to try to claim the McCain was eligible?

If you are really interested, read the two natural born citizen blogs, Mario Apuzzo's or Leo Donofrio’s. No court has ever addressed the many supreme court cases. The Constitution was explicity written to leave definitions to the common law and language of the framers because Madison and others realized that changes in language over time would alter the meanings described by the Constitution. “it wasn't written in the Constitution” is simply legal misdirection. Why do you thing there is such a fuss about Rubio, and no mention of Suzanna Martinez, a natural born citizen, born to parents who were citizens, and born on US soil. She is Governor of New Mexico, and a gem of a conservative governor. But she doesn't provide cover for the Republican party who let McCain run, always knowing he was ineligible.

54 posted on 06/23/2012 4:08:44 PM PDT by Spaulding
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