I don’t think that is it. First of all, they are gutless wonders, and secondly, Marco Rubio was born in the U.S. There is some debate here on FR about the citizen status of parents at the time of birth, but I think most people outside of here believe that the birth requirement is that as long as you are born here in the U.S. you are a natural born citizen, and that includes members of Congress.
Members of Congress believe what Pelosi, Reid, Boehner, McConnell, etc., tell them to believe - otherwise their constituents get no government largesse, and when re-elect-time comes around, the DNC and RNC provide them no “campaign donations”.
The old guard will not give up their positions of power, and they will not tolerate any who don’t toe the proscribed line.
If that “line” means the ineligible Rubio is to be VP, Rubio will be the VP - and to hell with the Constitution.
Rubio is toeing the line nicely. He turned on the tea party, he’s weak on “immigration”. And did I read somewhere today that he’s among those ripping Michelle Bachmann for calling out Hums Abedin’s connections to the Muslim Brotherhood? [correct me if that’s wrong]. Such a good little RINO-in-training he is.
“I think most people outside of here believe that the birth requirement is that as long as you are born here in the U.S. you are a natural born citizen, and that includes members of Congress.”
That would include any child of any illegal alien, communist dictator, Mexican NarcoTerrorist, etc., who was born in the USA - just like Anwar al-Awlaki, Islamic terrorist extraordinaire, born in Las Cruces, NM, to Yemeni parents.
So — as long as a person is born in the US, regardless of the parents’ citizenship, they can be raised abroad as an enemy of the US and reintroduced into our country in time to meet the 14-year residency requirement for POTUS?
I’d like to see an explanation from anyone who thinks that is what the Framers of the Constitution intended when they used the phrase, “natural born Citizen.”