It wasn’t an issue until Trump made it one.
“It wasn’t an issue until Trump made it one.”
It was a ticking time bomb before. Just because we all paid no attention to it does not make it “not an issue”.
Now it’s still ticking. Just this time everyone knows the bomb is there. The question is when the Dems will push the detonator with their favorite judge.
This has been an issue for me years prior to Trump announcing. I am a very strong constitutionalist, I believe our Founding Fathers wrote what they believed and believed what they wrote.
They made a clear distinction between the type of citizen who could become president and those who could only become senators or representatives. They said the man must be a natural born citizen.
They also said that birth abroad must have two citizen parents to make the child a citizen. This is all clear in additional writings and letters of the time.
Unfortunately, they could not have conceived of a world where courts and voters would parse their language, change their meanings and because of personality cults, throw out their intentions.
In 2008 Liberals decided it was time for a black president and lowered the bar to accept a person with one citizen parent, born in the United States instead of a natural born citizen.
Now, in 2016 Conservatives have decided to lower the bar even further and accept a person with one citizen parent, not even born in the United States.
You will ignore the Constitution, the writings of the time, the laws and the cases where the Supreme Court has ruled. It’s cool because it’s time for a Conservative to be president, who cares where he came from or if he’s eligible.
When this election season started, before Trump announced and I started paying attention to him, I had determined that to me, Cruz, Jindal and Rubio were not qualified. I first looked at Perry and then Walker. Even Christie was researched. I did not consider Bush because I don’t believe he has the mental capabilities needed for the job.
You will do what you will do, without thinking and insulting any who disagree with you. That’s fine. What will you do when they start changing the 1st Amendment or the 2nd? They have already changed the 14th to include anchor babies. They have already pretty much thrown out the 4th and the 10th. No wonder Washington considers the Constitution “just a piece of paper”
There was and still are three states that have cases pending so keep lying and inform Alan Grayson of Florida that Trump quit.