Posted on 04/14/2012 8:32:14 PM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome
In an interview with CNN today, Marco Rubio said in no uncertain terms that he’s not going to be the vice president.
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, widely speculated to be a top pick for the Republican presidential running mate, once again firmly denied he would join the GOP ticket.
“I’m not going to be the vice president,” Rubio said Friday in an interview with CNN en Español’s Ismael Cala. “I’m not.”
We have two options. We can assume that Rubio meant to imply he wouldn’t join the 2012 GOP ticket under any circumstances — OR — we can parse his words. He didn’t say he wouldn’t join the 2012 GOP ticket, after all. He said he’s not going to be the vice president. Maybe that means he’s still open to run with Mitt Romney — but he doesn’t think they would win.
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Unfortunately no one is listening to what is the truth.
Obama, Bobbie jindal, rubio are not eligible to be President or VP
More than likely after Texas. And it’s not just about Newt being the nominee; it’s about Mitt not hitting 1144.
That’s because too much was made in that other thread about a hypothetical. I guess any defense of the ABO stance seemed suspect given my sign up date. I still think we have a shot.
That was the thrust of my "Third Option" comment in #7.
What gives with suggestion after suggestion of prospective candidates/running mates who have eligibility issues?
We need a SCOTUS ruling to clear up the doubts. So far, the only definition not in doubt, as handed down by SCOTUS as to what constitutes a NBC is found in the Minor v Happersett case.
Glad he won’t be our vice president.
It may be, WhiskeyX, that the Republican ‘leadership’ would like Rubio in the race to guarantee that those leaders won't be confronted with their violation of their oaths (most are attorney's - officers of the court), should we have a new attorney general. They covered for McCain, when even McCaskill and Obama couldn't get their ‘‘Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act’’, S.2678, February 2008, passed. It was patently a quid pro quo - we won't ask about Obama if you stop your lawyers from explaining why McCain is ineligible, which they had been doing since about 2000.
It is sickening, but revealing, to see in how little esteem Republican politicians and party operatives hold the Constitution and Supreme Court. Rubio could become a hero if he were actually to explain why he isn't running; but he won't. Too many careers will be destroyed if the public becomes informed that while the left executed the agitprop, which they do much better than Republicans, Republicans were full party to deception. The left used ridicule and the bait of hidden documents to keep citizens, few of whom have read The Constitution critically, ignorant about the meaning of natural born citizen, which, like every other term in the Constitution, is not defined in the Constitution itself, but by the common language and common-law familiar to its framers. That way, as words morph, change their meanings, the intentions of the framers are not lost.
There are probably over a hundred justices who never questioned the use of “born in the country to parents who were its citizens”, which had been used in dozens of Supreme Court decisions before Chief Justice Waite made it precedent, including all nine justices who turned the common law (just what you would assume it to be) into positive law, or precedent, in Minor v. Happersett, 88 US 162. They all agreed with the Chief Justice Morrison Waite who said "it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens," "It was never doubted" until it became politically expedient to pretend those words were never written. Soros' acolytes made it easier to not notice those words by scrubbing the largest public archives of Supreme Court decisions, at justia.com, of citations to Minor v. Happersett, so that curious citizens and law students executing a search will not be returned pointers to Minor v. Happersett. The KGB could not have managed information more skillfully.
Rubio was born in 1971. His parents were naturalized in 1975. Rubio is a dual US-Cuban citizen.
Then I say he should be the real patriot and run. When asked for proof of citizenship, offer up a forged pdf file. Then let the real popcorn event begin.
At the rate things have been going thus far, he'd probably get a pass on the forged pdf file. After all, there's precezident, right?
You've nailed why it would never come up - they don't want to have to look any closer at Obama.
He is not eligible to be vice president. Neither is Jindal.
The made-up parts.
There is no maybe to it. The natural born requirement has two components: 1) the person must be born here; 2) both his parents must be citizens at the time of his birth. Rubio was born here, but his parents were not yet citizens.
see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Rubio
Marco knows he’s not eligible.
Your contempt and gross disrespect for the Constitution and the people who would protect and defend it in accordance with the oath tthey swore is noted.
So, the Constitution’s disqualification of the children born with their foreign parents’ allegiance to another sovereign nation is irrelevant to you.
So, the Constitution’s disqualification of the children born with their foreign parents’ allegiance to another sovereign nation is irrelevant to you.
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