I know that the establishment doesn’t care for the constitution one twit, but I thought Rubio wasn’t eligible in terms of having both parents being Americans at the time he was born?
The Constitution. If you capitalize anything capitalize the Constitution. It’s the one the world copies and the one that will keep America free.
Rubio is perfectly eligible, he’s a natural born citizen, and there has never ever been a case where someone was declared not a natural born US citizen on the basis of his parents’ citizenship. Place of birth is what does it; that’s why the Chinese can pay to come in and have babies here, who automatically are considered natural born US citzens, even though their parents live in China and take them back to China immediately and raise them there. Like it or not, the place is what matters.
In fact, if Rubio’s parents had been US citizens but if he himself had been born elsewhere, he would not be considered natural born. This was the whole argument over McCain, if you will recall, who was born to a military family in a hospital in Panama that was used by the military but was not actually on the base (not on US soil, in other words).
So Rubio is fully eligible. Whether he’d want to run, of course, is another matter, and I don’t think he would. He has a very nice young family to look after, and I think he’s happy with what he’s achieving in the Senate.
Made-up birther nonsense.
Rubio is eligible.
“...but I thought Rubio wasn’t eligible in terms of having both parents being Americans at the time he was born?”
Thanks to the precedent set by our illegal alien president, the only requirement now is that you be born on Earth.
He is not eligible, neither is Jindal unless of course the SC decides what a NBC really is.
He is not eligible, neither is Jindal unless of course the SC decides what a NBC really is and say it doesn’t matter about the parents.