“Actually, yes, Arnold can run for president.”
Fine, he can run. I think the Communist Party candidate was openly not a natural born citizen this past year as well. But the MSM and the voters won’t let him off the hook. And unlike with Obama, it’s not a matter of secret BCs. Everyone knows he wasn’t born a citizen. He’s so high-profile, I have a feeling the law would come down on him swiftly if he tried.
Exactly, Arnold can run if he swears he is eligible to hold the office of president and that is left to his discretion alone. We depend only upon the common sense of state officials, electors, and Congress to disqualify an ineligible candidate. We have no legally-mandated vetting process in which a presidential candidate is required to submit proof of his eligiblity for approval or rejection by a governing entity. We need to put that process in place to ensure that the Constitutional requirements are upheld. (And we need a ruling from the SCOTUS on exactly who is natural-born and who isn’t so that governing entity can apply rules uniformly regardless of party/race. There is no good reason to leave the law unsettled.)
Since it well-known that Arnold is not a natural-born citizen, he probably wouldn’t make it through the electoral college vote, but there is nothing stopping him from trying and that’s my point.