[Sybeck1]

When Fred Thompson said it might be time to review the practice of granting citizenship to every child born on American soil, he didn’t acknowledge the seismic shift such an idea represents.

Citizenship by birth has been prescribed by the Constitution since 1868 — and upheld for 109 years by the Supreme Court — but the Republican presidential candidate made it sound anachronistic.

“I think that law was created at another time and place for valid reasons,” the former U.S. senator from Tennessee said earlier this month. “It probably needs to be revisited.”

Thompson’s comments have angered Hispanic leaders — many of them Republicans — who say they are a crass attempt to court the GOP base.

http://commonsenseamerica.net/blog1/?p=1496

[calcowgirl]

Citizenship by birth has been prescribed by the Constitution since 1868 ...

Uh... not really. But I get the point.

[CottonBall]

Thompson’s comments have angered Hispanic leaders — many of them Republicans — who say they are a crass attempt to court the GOP base.

LOL! Well, how dare he actually represent the base of his party! Only hispandering is allowed, after all. Anything else is obviously racist!