[AmericanVictory]

Consider this scenario: Donald Trump runs in a third party and aggressively raises the eligibility issue, and then as he is running pursues it in court. He would clearly have standing. He would clearly attract attention. Would any Republican have the integrity and cajones to raise the issue? What about the pistol packing guy from Texas?

[null and void]

I’ll see your scenario and raise you one.

Trump succeeds in having non-NBC candidates removed from the ballots.

Who’s left on the ballot?

[Kenny Bunk]

The entire issue has been de-legitimized and inextricably attached to the "Birther" scenario.

It belongs in the courts. The Judges have all run from it.

The polite bar-room brawls (and not so polite) the endless references to the worthy von Puffendorf .... the iconic Vattel .... ain't worth a hill'o'beans until a court takes the case on the merits.

Our last chance is a state election board, a governor, an attorney general, someone somewhere who merely takes The Mombasa MF or whoever he is off the ballot, as is that official's Constitutional right and duty under the laws of his state.

That will put it in court where it belongs and we'll get to know if we are right ... or if we are all crazy.

[DiogenesLamp]

Consider this scenario: Donald Trump runs in a third party and aggressively raises the eligibility issue, and then as he is running pursues it in court. He would clearly have standing. He would clearly attract attention. Would any Republican have the integrity and cajones to raise the issue? What about the pistol packing guy from Texas?

I don't believe anyone in the Republican party will raise the issue. It is considered gauche. (And yes I do believe that most Republicans are more concerned about social awkwardness than constitutional requirements.)

[DiogenesLamp]

And to follow up, I spend almost as much time arguing with wrong headed Republicans/conservatives as I do with Obots. As hard as it is to believe, there are conservatives that simply do not want to believe the truth.

[World'sGoneInsane]

Trump has already raised the issue and dropped it. He does not need to run third party to raise it again. No, I don’t think that is his motivation.