Absolutely Vendome. I won't repeat your explanation because it is clear and correct. The question is about their strategy. There is precedent. It is important to know that Obama’s Constitutional Law Professor, Larry Tribe, wrote the legal analysis cited by the Leahy/McCaslill resolution, SR 511. This is Larry's specialty. Larry sat on Obama’s campaign committee, as did McCaskill. (Larry was also protected from the consequences of his plaigiarizing much of another book, word-for-word, by Elena Kagan, then Harvard Law Dean.)
Tribe would have known about what Sharon Rondeau exposed, the lengthy brief published in the largest circulation legal publication of the time, Chicago Legal News, by Breckenridge Long exposing former supreme court justice Charles Evans Hughes' ineligibility; Hughes was born of parents who were British Subjects. That was in 1916. After losing to Wilson, Hughes was reappointed the the court, Chief Justice, where, in 1939, he wrote the decision for Perkins v. Elg, in which Morrison Waite's definition (...it was never doubted...at common-law...of parents who were its citizen...) was cited. Apparently Hughes thought he could suppress the issue, just as Obama has done. What would have happened if Hughes had beaten Woodrow Wilson?
A similarly thorough analysis of McCain's ineligibility was published at the John Rogers Law School of the University of Arizona by Professor Gabriel Chin “Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship.” It can only be conjecture, but this thorough Chin analysis covered the legal issues with detail sufficient for a lawsuit. This, and Senate Res 511 were what silenced Republican objections to Obama’s lack of natural born Citizenship. The Breckenridge Long paper was similarly thorough.
A political historian would have to illuminate the political context for the Charles Evans Hughes campaign, since Woodrow Wilson appears to have been a natural born Citizen. Hughes was a Republican and Long a Democrat, and the Chicago Legal News brief was a shot across the bow. McCain's natural born citizenship problem has been a topic for at least ten years. He was, it turns out, not born on sovereign soil, nor was the Canal Zone under sovereign jurisdiction until 1937 McCain did provide a birth certificate, and Gabriel Chin published the facts in a peer-reviewed legal journal. That was the shot across the bow of the Republican party
Most of us find the jus soli restriction to children of military in need of change. Those who put their lives on the line to protect our Constitution should be reputed natural born, but, as Obama/McCaskill pointed out in their February 2008 Bill, SB 2678, it is not now the case (Their bill was called "A Bill To Insure That Foreign Born Children of Military Citizen are Eligible to be President." Had McCaskill/Obama meant to fix it, they would have submitted an amendment. McCain's ineligibility was an opportunity, the perfect opportunity allowing the far left to run its British/Kenyan community activist. It is why the Democrats went to such extent to support McCain's legal problems, all but shutting down the NYT and WaPo reporters who wrote knowledgably about natural born Citizenship until May of 2008. They assumed that the public would not have the energy, intellect, or courage to overcome the campaign of ridicule - Birthers. Running against an ineligible McCain silenced the Repbulicans before the election, and made all Republican legislators complicit, keeping them silent after McCain's defeat. No one can know if they would have removed McCain had he won, but it seems likely. A law cannot amend the Constitution. This bill and resolution were agitprop.
You can read the Breckenridge Long essay by searching ScribD.com for Charles Evans Hughes, or find the pointer Rondeau’s www.thepostemail.com . Find the Chin essay the Univ of Arizona.
I assume you meant “imputed” not reputed.
Good response.
The way I see/understand(?) it is that as soon as this Senate resolution was on record it also hand-cuffed McPain and even more Sarah Palin for raising “Abu” Barry’s NBC questions to be asked by anyone, including the Clintons, cleverly making the fix is in complete!!!
http://rofasix.blogspot.com/2008/04/senate-resolution-511-making-mccain.html