In before the “he’s an idiot and doesn’t understand the Constitution!” posts!
Sounds good to me.
The standard has been set, Rubio meets that standard, end of story.
By those standards, an Anchor Baby of illegal immigrants could become President.
The birthers will now proclaim Mark Levin to have no knowledge of the Constitution and be a secret liberal plant in our conservative movement.
Good! In any case, I suspect that half of the people posting those things are probably Dem plants trying to stoke the anti-immigrant crowd into attacking one of our more promising young GOP politicos (who is not an immigrant, but that doesn’t matter to them once they get going).
We are now about two miles past the last outrageous marker. Mark is just announcing that he is compromised too. I would like to see a clear definition from him on what he calls a “Natural Born Citizen”.
He seems to be saying that “by blood” is irrelevant, and “by soil” is all that matters. OK, Mark, then if the Russian intelligence agency decided to plant a mole who would become president someday, just bring a Russian woman over to give birth here. There is your “natural born” citizen. Riiiiiight. Mark, what is your problem?
I see, so native born = natural born, therefore any anchor baby can be president. Does anybody believe that the founding fathers actually had that in mind?
Ok, I consider myself a strict Constitutionalist, but I might actually agree with Mark Levin, but not because of the “obama standard”.
I read that after the Spanish-American War, we signed a treaty giving us protectorate status over Cuba, along with the Philippines and Guam.
I may be totally wrong, it wouldn’t be the first time, but if I understand correctly, ANY Cuban citizen could rightfully claim American citizenship, unless that treaty has been formally dissolved.
I know that sounds crazy, and if I am wrong, and the treaty has been dissolved, and had been before the births of Mr. Rubios’ parents, then Mr. Rubio is not a natural born citizen.
I suppose the special political status of Cubans may be a factor. They aren’t your typical immigrants. Had Rubio’s parents begun the citizenship process at the time of his birth?
If a pregnant U.S. citizen has her baby while traveling overseas, is that child a U.S. citizen?
In any event, if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen, I don’t see why Rubio shouldn’t be.
Why are we having this discussion?
The USA is now a very large banana republic. The Constitution is violated hundreds of times daily by the WH and the congress and the courts.
This is irrelevant because the meaning of the Constitution changes continuously to suit the purposes of our rulers, oops I mean our elected representatives.
And I am not being sarcastic. Discussing the Constitutionality of anything done by Washington is pointless.
Well, now the Vattle Birthers are getting all Birthers into trouble by the stuff they keep saying. It is one thing to be common sense suspicious about paperwork and a whole another thing to promote false and bad legal advice about what a natural born citizen is.
I shook off the Mark Levin fairy dust awhile ago. Mark Levin is not the last word on the Constitution and he loves the sound of his own voice a little too much for me. He lost me after his creepy rant on Donald Trump followed up by an on air insult to one of my best friends last week. What idiot insults his own fans on air when they try to call in with some information on the subject at hand? He’s wrong about Rubio also. Most constitutional experts agree with the Vattel version of “Natural Born Citizen”.
Freepers here who want to go along with this combined GOP/Progressive elitist attempt to change the intent of the founding fathers had better sit down and think very hard about it first. The abomination sitting in the White Hut right now is the reason the founding fathers wanted the President to be born in the USA of two citizen parents. No conflicting loyalties.
What if Rubi was born by c-section? Is he still a natural born citizen??
I guess then according to Levin’s definition, the Mexican Drug Cartel leader’s twins that were just born in California are also NBCs and should be eligible to be president, too!!! COOL!~!!!!!
He fails the Sans Nutjob test.
,,,,, So really what this is all about is the FEAR that liberals and the Mean Streak Media have of Rubio and all other Tea Party / conservatives . . . I love watching these slugs squirm ,,, it’s probably the only humor I can find in daily politics lately .
CAIN / RUBIO 2012
Mark Levin is a major disappointment in regards to Constitutional law. I used to think that he would be someone to hold up in the greatest respect on the subject of the Constitution. I still respect the man as being a conservative but just not as a great conservative. For whatever reason he has sold out the Constitution on this issue.
I have great respect for Mark Levin.
I understand his interpretation of the “natural born citizen” clause.
The rational for that form most likely sees the “anchor baby” issue as a problem whose cause rests in our faulty border control and immigration laws, as well as our failure to enforce our immigration laws, but those errors, not his interpretation of the Constitution is how we get the “anchor babies” issue (due to the numbers).
I think to him that a different interpretation would be akin to “throwing out the baby [the Constitution] with the bath water” [the consequences (”anchor babies”} of poorly executed border security and immigration laws].
However,
my own big question mark is, having listened to Mark Levin for years, my Alzheimers addled memory thought that prior to this opinion he has with regard to Marco Rubio, I thouhgt that Mark’s opinion on “anchor babies” fell to the other side (against them being thought of as natural born citizens).
So, my second question, IF THE FIRST ONE IS TRUE (which I am uncertain about) is:
if Mark is pandering to Hispanics , at this point in time.
Maybe I am wrong and maybe he has always had the opinion on “natural born citizen” as he now accepts it in the case of Marco Rubio. I hope that is the case, for at least it would confirm that Mark’s Constitutional opinions have been consistent.
No matter my own opinion on this issue, I have, and still have great respect for Mark as an informed Conservative intellect when it comes to the Constitution and the history of court decisions of a “Constitutional” nature.
Thank you for posting this. watching the meltdowns on Rubio threads has become my daily Guilty Pleasure. Watching some of these people become so wrapped around the spokes is better comedy than anything on TV, and while the Palin wars are quite humorous in their own right the Rubio threads are hands down the best.