Time to get over this useless quest. We now have Marco Rubio in Iowa starting a campaign. He’s even less the NBC than Obama. This is documented. So the pubbies are doing it too.
Not by one of the birther theories, by which Obama was born outside the USA. Same reason some use to claim McCain was not NBC, despite the remarkably callous argument that children of American flag officers serving overseas should not be considered eligible for president.
There is no argument that I'm aware of that Rubio wasn't born here. It's just that one or both of his parents weren't yet citizens.
The truly ludicrous part of this argument is the implicit assumption that someone born on American soil of two American citizen parents will therefore by some odd sort of natural law be inherently more loyal to this country.
Despite the evidence thrust in our faces daily that tens of millions of American citizens who meet this criteria nevertheless loathe and despise what their country has traditionally stood for.
I quite agree.
In four years we were unable to induce a single state, even the really red ones, to pass a law requiring presidential candidates to present specified proof of eligibility.
What I think is perhaps most bizarre in this whole thing is the apparent eagerness of some conservatives to seek a judicial decision to overturn a presidential election, despite the obvious fact that the Constitution gives no such power to the courts.
And the even more obvious fact that overweening courts have caused more damage to our constitutional order than any other factor, yet some would encourage them to assume even more power if it meets their goals of the moment.