How Mitt Romney’s Mexican-Born Father Was Eligible to be President

ABC News ^ | January 27, 2012 | Huma Khan

[James Thomas]

Mitt Romney’s father, George Romney, has been invoked on the campaign trail often.

Newt Gingrich used his release of 12 years’ of tax records as an example to push his rival to release his own tax returns. On Thursday night, Romney mentioned the fact that his father was born in Mexico in response to Gingrich’s allegations that he is “anti-immigrant,” which raises the question: If George Romney was born in Mexico, how could he run for president?

[Brown Deer]

Have you considered that relying on a rock star wannabe, professional poker player with no actual legal experience might be a root cause for the fact that no eligibility case has ever succeeded?

Why does a nobody wannabe somebody troll with no experience in anything continue to post lies here?

[philman_36]

You have to stipulate that it can be done but only by a Constitutional Amendment. Don't get caught.
Naturalization laws don't, and can't, trump the Constitutional requirements of Article II, Section 1, Clause 5.

[Harlan1196]

Show show me his legal accomplishments.

Employment history, case history, publication history.

Why not hold Leo to the same standard that you want to hold Obama to. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, right? Certainly don’t want to leave the eligibility movement open to charges of hypocrisy, do you?

[philman_36]

@Liar! Character assassin!

[Brown Deer]

Show show me his YOUR legal accomplishments.

Employment history, case history, publication history.

Did you ever even finish high school?

[Brown Deer]

Why not hold Leo to the same standard that you want to hold Obama to.

He's not running for President of the United States, so his citizenship doesn't matter to me at all.

[Harlan1196]

Since you are not hanging on my every word, my legal experience is irrelevant.

What is your criteria for “expert”? He tells me what I want to hear?

Be honest - you actually Googled Leo and read all the weird, off the wall stuff he wrote before be got respectable and became a Constitutional scholar.

[Brown Deer]

So we must all assume that you never even graduated from high school?

Anything you say then, is probably irrelevant.

[Harlan1196]

You can assume all you want - no skin off my back.

You really don’t want to discuss Leo’s absolute lack of legal experience, do you?

[Harlan1196]

But his legal “analysis” is key to your arguments. Either he his a Constitutional scholar or a charlatan blowing smoke up the birthers collective asses.

And it is clear he has no legal experience.

[Menehune56]

In 2008 election Congress spent time looking into McLame and ignored Obama the Obvious. Go figure.

A clear case of the dog that didn't bark scenario. They were painfully aware of Obama's eligibility problem from day one.

[x]

Yes, as Democrat Law Professor Gabriel Chin explained in great detail in "Why Senator John McCain can Never Be President". The law is clear. A number of the children of military personel born in The Canal Zone before the Zone was incoporated in 1937, a year after McCain's birth, were deported by our INS for lack of citizenship.

Chin speaks of "a number of individuals born in the Canal Zone under U.S. jurisdiction ... even one claiming to be a birthright citizen under the Fourteenth Amendment" being deported. Presumably, they were the children of Panamanian or other non-US citizen parents. Chin does say that Congress and the courts didn't recognize children born in the Canal Zone to American parents as citizens from birth, but he doesn't say that children of American citizens born in the Canal Zone were actually deported.

Chin also notes that this reading was subject to question depending on how one read the statutes and what one meant by "limits and jurisdiction." If Congress had not acted, the courts may have ruled that children in McCain's situation were in fact citizens from birth. See Stephen E. Sach's companion article, Why John McCain Was a Citizen at Birth. Ironically, if McCain was born on Panamanian territory outside the Canal Zone, he would indeed have been a citizen from birth, according to Chin's reading -- which is pretty much the opposite from what many of us assumed at the time.

[Brown Deer]

But his legal “analysis” is key to your arguments.

Which arguments are those?

And it is clear he has no legal experience.

Care to back your statement up?

It's clear to everyone here that you only came here to troll and I have already backed that statement up.

[little jeremiah]

With the (bride?) wearing a matching atomic hat. Fetching.

[little jeremiah]

Oh, is Leo a candidate then? Which party?

How’s your evil twin doing?

[Harlan1196]

He is just the “Constitutional Scholar” who conned the birthers.

Leo and Orly - ever wonder why the eligibility movement has been such a spectacular failure. Online law school grads and professional poker players playing scholar is a good place to start.

[Brown Deer]

He is just the “Constitutional Scholar” who conned the birthers.

You're saying he conned you?

Online law school grads...

You know that Leo didn't get his law degree online, so why do you continue with your lies?

Did you get your GED yet?

[Harlan1196]

Orly is the online law school grad. Leo is the guy with no legal experience. Sorry for the confusion.

Have you been able to document Leo’s legal background? Aren’t you the slightest bit interested?

[Brown Deer]

Leo is the guy with no legal experience.

You keep saying that over and over again, but still haven't produced any proof of that.

[Harlan1196]

Can’t prove a negative.

Play with the Google a little bit - you will find nothing.

Don’t you think odd that Leo wouldn’t pad his bio on his web site to show something to indicate he has some practical legal experience? What is he hiding?