I can't read minds, or bend them MindBender26, but his failure, like every other Republican, to directly address the clear definition in Minor v. Happersett, the clear statement in Perkins v. Elg, the statement by John Bingham, or the dictum in John Marshall's Venus decision, etc. etc. sounds like evasion. I think Rubio wants to ride it out, hoping that the evasion which allowed McCain to run and Obama to run and assume the office will continue.
Remember, Obama’s constitutional law professor Larry Tribe, writing in the bogus hearing, one of six, to confuse the public about McCain's ineligibility, SR511, based the support he and Ted Olson gave upon McCain havign satisfied jus sanguinis - having been born to citizen parents. Every Democrat and every Republican knew Obama was not born to citizen parents. He was born to a dual citizen and an alien.
These are not dense or ignorant people. They have developed the discipline to hide their beliefs essential to most politicians - and poker players. So I could certainly be wrong, but, like the hidden Obama history, it seems very unlikely that we will learn Rubio’s beliefs as long as there is a chance he could be a presidential candidate. If Rubio talks honestly he puts hundreds of Republican legislators in the embarrassing position of having to argue with Rubio, or having to explain why they failed to respect The Constitution.
Having read Rubio’s aides make claims about Rubio’s eligibility means that Rubio retains plausible deniability should truth prevail and Rubio be offered Sec. of State. or Attorney General position. What remains a fact is that no legislator has been willing to engage in a discussion. They are using the politics of power to avoid a legal discussion for which they now know there is clear precedence. I do believe that many legislators could have been deceived by the remarkable scrubbing of Supreme Court case documents of citations to Minor executed by minions of Soros’ Center for American Progress. Few lawyers with whom I've discussed this point knew anything about Article II Section 1, Minor v. Happersett, The Venus, Perkins, Justice Charles Evans Hughes’ attempt to ignore Article II, etc. etc. The topic is hardly a topic at most law schools, and Constitutional law has little to do with activities of working attorneys.
There is nothing incomprehensible about the law. Our framers consciously created a document which every literate citizen could read, debate, and understand. Rubio is playing politics of a sort which should warn against his ambitions for higher office. He saw what happened to congressman, and now Georgia Governor, Nathan Deal, who had the courage to question Obama’s eligibility, unleashing the thugs of Holder's justice department.
But if you think he “understands” that he is eligible, and I am not at all a follower of Rubio’s public statements, I'd appreciate a reference to some clear statement by Rubio confirming that. That would follow him through his career, and I doubt that he is foolish enough to do that given all the legal confirmation by our greatest justices and judges, including 14th Amendment author John Bingham.