The Democrats are laughing because they don't give a rat's behind about the Constitution, as they've demonstrated over and over again on many fronts. On the other hand, we constitutionalists do and we know what Natural Born Citizen means, or at least what it meant to the people who wrote it into the Constitution.
This is not exactly a "birther argument" about Rubio and Jindal, nor is it any personal grudge we hold against them. We know they were both American born. It's just that no man is above the law (as Theodore Roosevelt famously said), regardless of his political ideology or popularity, and that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. (That holds for women as well, BTW.)
Rubio and Jindal can continue to excel in their present positions for which they are, respectively, constitutionally and legally qualified. It's just that, due to circumstances beyond their control, they don't qualify for VP or POTUS.
It doesn’t matter if his parents were naturalized or not as long as they were legal resident aliens as I believe they were.
That's not what the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they required that the President be a Natural Born Citizen (if born after the adoption of the Constitution). The Natural Born Citizen requirement was extended to the vice presidency by the Twelfth Amendment.
I am very confident that if Rubio or Jindal is elected that no court will even come close to removing them just as Obama still sits in the White House. While this legal theory is currently popular around here I don’t see it ever being adopted. I predict that when his supreme royal Obamic crapness is removed from office no one will care anymore.
I would rather discuss reasons as to why either man should perhaps not be VP. In Rub’s case this seemingly ill-advised immigration bill is exhibit A.