Why was McCain running for President if he knew (did he know?) he was Constitutionally ineligible?
Good question.
Perhaps he thought that the non-binding Senate resolution was good enough, but no retroactive action can make a person a Natural Born Citizen. It is a description of birth more than anything else. A condition of birth if you will. If you need one, then you aren’t one.
Power corrupts. Perhaps McCain felt like Obama did, that he deserved to run regardless of an constitutional lack. Certainly it played right onto Obama’s hands, frankly McCain’s presence as his rival for the job was ideal. I think this is why his team told the press McCain is who they really wanted to face, and is why the press suddenly propelled McCain’s campain at a time when everyone thought it was past over for him in Florida.
What I really want to know is why didn’t Hillary go for the throat. The Secretary of State bone she negotiated for just doesn’t seem to be enough of a quid pro quo....