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That’s an interesting interpretation they “took” from WKA. As we know, WKA stated someone born in the country, to alien parents was a “citizen.” They didn’t say he was a “Natural Born” citizen.

Technically, Wong Kim Ark didn't rule on whether Ark was a natural born citizen, only on whether he was a citizen; everything else in the opinion is dicta. But they do discuss Blackstone and state that, at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, "natural born citizen" was undertood to mean anyone born in the U.S. regardless of parentage.

Would love to see what SCOTUS has to say about that...IF it ever gets to them.

I doubt it will ever get to them-- they have turned down 6 or 7 eligibility cases already, without a single recorded dissent. But if it does get to them, I think they will agree with the Indiana court.

Obama's non-citizen father was hardly a secret-- he admitted it in his autobiography. But during the campaign, not one of his primary opponents claimed he was ineligible; McCain and Palin didn't say he was ineligible; not one conservative lawyer ever wrote an op-ed piece saying he was ineligible; no member of the elctoral college said he was ineligible; not one member of Congress objected to the certification of the electoral votes; and Chief Justice Roberts swore him in. The Supreme Court is not going to find him ineligible now.