Windflier you said: “Jeff, I’ve now given you three chances to inform us as to why you believe what you do. Despite repeated requests, you’ve done nothing but rail against others’ interpretations of NBC,”
I asked Jeff this Tuesday night:
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 9:22:56 PM · 1,312 of 1,484
Cold Case Posse Supporter to Jeff Winston
“Do you like the idea that for a U.S. president to be eligible for the presidency, he has to strictly have two U.S. Citizen parents prior to his birth?”
His exact answer to me was this in his own words:
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 9:42:31 PM · 1,314 of 1,484
Jeff Winston to Cold Case Posse Supporter
“I frankly don’t care one way or the other. It makes no difference at all to me.”
So if Jeff doesn’t care one way or the other as he states, then why is he on this grand mission attempting to discredit anyone who says that both parents have to be U.S. citizens for one to become a Article 2 Section 1 natural born Citizen?
Ooo! Ooo! I know!
To obfuscate the truth.
“I frankly don’t care one way or the other. It makes no difference at all to me.”
If Jeff can't see the underlying reasoning behind the Jus Soli + Jus Sanguinis = NBC interpretation, and WHY the Framers would have insisted upon that high standard for occupancy of the US Presidency, then there's little point in engaging him on the topic.
It never mattered to me whether the Founders said the children born on US soil of non-citizen parents were eligible to the Presidency or not.
What matters to me is that the Constitution is being twisted, and falsehoods and misconceptions are being promoted as truth. What matters to me is that some people are making conservatives look like kooks. What matters to me is that some people are bringing harm to our conservative cause by insisting that potentially decent candidates like Ted Cruz are not eligible to be President, when they are. Because that needlessly limits our options.
Or do you really want another John McCain? Do you really want another Mitt Romney?