The blame can hardly be placed on the modern era alone. The entire natural-born clause has never been rigorously enforced. There was the election of Chester A. Arthur with a Canadian father in 1880. Charles Curtis’s mother didn’t hold American citizenship, and was in fact a Kaw, yet he was elected in 1928. Wikipedia has a long list of other potential presidential or VP candidates in major parties that had questions as to their qualifications as natural-born citizens, but who still ran. Heck, even on this forum, there are many who would like to see Rubio as a VP candidate, despite the fact that at his time of birth, neither of his parents held American citizenship.
I agree that the original intention has all but been ignored. One need only look to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., and to the destructive policies of it's occupant(s) to derive the lessons of consequence, as the NBC clause is NOW for all intent and purpose; meaningless.
Is Georgia's latest ruling the period at the end of the sentence?
Chester Athur hid the facts and it was only discovered years later that he was not elig.
Candidates elig have been challenged but none who was inelig became the pres/vp.
So there was no precedent set, i.e. until obozo!
Now they are floating names of inelig candidates because they think precedent has been set - to them there is no more nbc requirement!