Posted on 08/29/2011 6:07:11 PM PDT by rodguy911
Three hours ago over 200 eager supporters where at the Marriot Hotel in Key Largo to great America's great conservative hope Marco Rubio. Entering the doorway first of the panoramic third floor of the Marriot overlooking Fla. Bay with a huge thunderstorm in process was our House of Rep. lady Ileana ros Lehtinen. She stood in the doorway and posed for photos. I got to greet her as she entered and soon sheer pandemoneum erupted as Sen. Marco Rubio entered the doorway. Before he could get into the room he met and greeted dozens of well wishers, posed for photos and generally exuded so much charisma it literally filled the Room. As he entered the room he was approached by well wishers, fans,constituents former politicians and present, and posed for photos with everyone. My turn came up and I told him that he has an army of Freepers on FreeRepublic just waiting to support him and that he is a rock star with endless support on the worldwide web. He thanked me but said he wasn't quite that great. I said he was.
Your query really touches the core of a Constitutional dilemma. There is a an electoral gate for getting into the house of POTUSA, i.e. the gate being the person must be a ‘natural born citizen’. There are various arguments as to that gate. I personally believe it is a keep-out obstacle/ sign for Obama, Rubio, Jindal or anyone else such as myself and my brother killed on Okinawa. However, for some reason the Founding Fathers did not explicitly make it a requirement for the Vice-President to have to pass through the gate much like they did not do so for congresspersons. There is no need panic as to succession to POTUSA because the Founders did provide for passage through the gate going down the line of possible successors. The first after the VP(if not eligible to pass through the gate) would be the Speaker of the House. If that person is not eligible to pass through the gate then the next in succession comes up to the gate and so on down the line .
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