Posted on 05/06/2012 4:09:01 PM PDT by Homers-odd-I-see
I've been torn between Senator Rob Portman of Ohio and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida for the GOP Vice Presidential spot. Marco Rubio was on "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace" today. OMG, the dude was AWESOME!!! He did not miss a step; sharp, sensible, intelligent answers to every question. I was amazed at how smart this guy is. Don't know for sure, but, you might be able to see the interview on FOX News.com
Yep, Marco Rubio is my guy for VP.
IBTZ.
Shut up.
April 2012 ? So who was driving you away? Frankly, in this place, it took me years and years to notice anyone trying to drive me away.
There was an article the other day on FR in which Rubio was quoted waxing enthusiastic about the IMF, World Bank and another vile organization - actually it might have been the UN - beaucse they widened “narrow American” interests or something. IWO a typical globalist POS.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Chief Justice Morrison Waite in Minor v. Happersett made the common-law into positive law:
“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, 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, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”
People calling names and making similar assertions, providing hyperlinks to US Code which is based upon the 14th Amendment, Code which nowhere uses the phrase “natural born citizen,” and code based upon the words of the author of the 14th Amendment, which naturalizes some children at birth, show the same ignorance. Words mean things. From Congressman John Bingham, addressing The House, explaining the his bill to amend the Constitution, and insure that slaves are hereafter deemed citizens, so that their children might be natural born citizens:
"I find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen….
Letting political goals trump the Constitution is a bad thing for Constitutional Republics. If it is permitted to happen, mobs rule, and that has always led to revolution. For those who insist "But it was never defined in the Constitution," don't show your ignorance before reading the Constitution to see if you can find any term or phrase defined within the document. As Chief Justice Waite explained "At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constituion were familiar." Our framers understood that definitions change over time, and explicitly based the Constitution upon our common-law. Neither Rubio's nor Obama's parents were both citizens, nor do we doubt that Obama's parents had allegiance to another country, since Obama was born a British Subject, and Rubio's parents came to America, then returned to Cuba, and then returned to America. Our framers assumed, as does natural law, the the child inherits the allegiances of its parents. That is the reason for Article II Section 1, which applies only to presidents. England doesn't even permit naturalized ciitzens to be MPs, and its Kings and Queens held dual nationality.
Is that being to paranoid? LOL
Birthers in your head,
Oh shoo be do be,
Birthers in your head,
Oh scoo be do be,
You may wet the bed,
before the night is through
Portman would be a Honda Accord
Jaguar is a foreign car. Honda's are made in Ohio, which is in the USA.
Jaguars aren't eligible.
Instead of attacking me, perhaps you would do well to look at Rubio’s actions, not his words on a talk show.
If Rubio is a conservative, why would he endorse that flaming liberal socialist, Mitt Romney? Answer: He's looking to obtain a lucrative position in Romney's administration, most likely the vice presidency.
Given that Romney is a a copy of Obama, and the fact that he has all the charm of a lawn chair, look for Romney's candidacy to go down in flames. Rubio’s sellout will have been for naught.
Exactly. He is also a freshman senator with no experience and a Rino.
How do you know??
I wonder on the issue of defining NBC if the SCOTUSA has any more authority or standing than defining if ‘a rose is a rose’. SCOTUSA might give a decision on eligibility but it seems to me there could be a POTUSA ignoring such as well as a Congressional action nullifying such a decision. A real question on all of the present day quandary is why such exists today.
Yep, that reply is the clincher to me.
The "newbie" snapped his own neck and doesn't seem to realize his foot is still twitching.
Placed the rope around his own neck and jumped right off the scaffold.
Ignorance can be cured, stupid is forever.
The truce has allowed the horseshit back in the stable
Same moderate no culture war jackasses.....same dung
The truce has allowed the horseshit back in the stable
Same moderate no culture war jackasses.....same dung
That was a tough interview to get through without nodding off. It was almost all RNC-approved mush. The only interesting, laudable thing in the interview was the hardline stance on China with some specific and harsh critical language. Everything else was vague, boring, unconvincing boilerplate of the kind that Romney specializes in.
There was a bunch of vague talk about how Obama didn’t “fix” the economy and nothing offered but the assumption that Romney would. We get complaining about the debt and the tax code without any specifics on where spending will be cut or what will be changed in the tax code. In fact Rubio offers lip service to the idea that it’s never a good idea to have deficit spending while touting that we should not cut one penny of foreign aid. This is just awful double speak worthy of Obama.
He claims Romney’s running as a “free market” candidate without defining what that means. It certainly doesn’t mean in my book Romney’s constant “me too” on Obama-approved bailouts, subsidies and welfare entitlement programs.
Arguing that Obama shouldn’t be able to tout the Bin Laden raid in his reelection campaign is a ridiculous losing position to take. Any President has the right to tout their accomplishments. The Democrats tried to say the same thing about Bush using 9/11 in his campaign ads, and they were wrong and idiotic for saying that too. We hire a President to be a good Commander-in-Chief, so it’s utterly disingenuous to say they can’t try to sell themselves that way.
Wallace also destroyed Rubio on the Iran issue because, like he says, they are offering no specific plan that has any contrast to what Obama’s doing.
Rubio also spent a lot of time praising the Republican party for being “tolerant” of pro-choice Republican RINOs. He went out of his way to bring it up in fact. 100% sure that this is the line the RNC and their consultants are pushing along with being pro-same-sex marriage. They want to destroy social conservatism and are hard at work doing it and using their golden boy lapdogs like Rubio to help every chance they get.
His effort to explain why he is qualified to be Vice President was surprisingly laughable. Just compare to the YouTube video when Newt Gingrich explained why Sarah Palin was qualified. He had many more points, all of them more salient and impressive than what Rubio said here about himself.
I don’t even mind the DREAM Act issue much, because the idea that people should be punished who were brought here illegally as children is just ridiculous and unprecedented in any legal code I’m aware of. If a parent trespasses somewhere and brings their child along, is the child prosecuted? More annoying is that he defended Romney for “voting present” on the issue as Romney famously likes to do on almost every issue.
Overall, Rubio is clearly an establishment hack in training and along with Romney, would take the GOP further to the left than it’s ever gone before. They would take “compassionate conservatism” to a whole new level, continue massive entitlement spending, and do absolutely nothing to actually “fix the economy” by changing us back to the kind of opportunity society that Newt Gingrich and the real conservatives have been pushing their whole careers. With people like Rubio as the up-and-comers replacing national heroes of the movement like Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp and Newt Gingrich, conservatism is truly on its way out and set to die in America as we become a European socialist welfare state and shortly thereafter become whatever those states become when they inevitably fail on a grand scale.
Total crock. Sarah had executive experience as governor. Rubio is about as qualified as Obama, i.e. not very. You'll notice even though many of us here despise Romney as a candidate due to his positions and principles or lack thereof, almost no one has argued that he's not qualified or experienced enough. Being a governor counts for a lot.
Then what's your old account nickname? You're talking like someone who's been here for years, especially when you talk about "changing over" to other conservative web sites, but this account you're using was only created 3 weeks ago.
Probably not. Are the children then allowed to stay?
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