Posted on 02/21/2016 4:55:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump says he's not sure whether Marco Rubio is eligible for the presidency.
And Rubio says it's just the latest in a line of Trump's "outrageous" comments designed to suck up media attention.
Rubio is a U.S. citizen who was born in Miami. He is, in fact, eligible for the presidency -- even though his parents migrated from Cuba.
But Trump stirred controversy on Saturday by retweeting a message suggesting that neither Rubio nor Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada to a U.S. citizen mother, meet the constitutional requirements for the Oval Office....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID-NEITHER CRUZ NOR RUBIO ARE ELIGIBLE-NO DICE
He wants to grant amnesty to himself. ;-)
No they weren’t. The Founders put in a clause at the time of the ratification to grandfather them in as natural born citizens.
If anchor babies are eligible, so is Rubio. He is an anchor baby, for certain.
“Washington, Jefferson, Adams etc. were all born subjects of the British crown...”
Which is why they put in a special exemption from the natural born citizen clause for themselves if they were already U.S. citizens at the time the Constitution was adopted. Because they required an exemption for themselves it is self evident British subjects who were not U.S. citizens when the Constitution was adopted were not and are not natural born citizens and are not eligible to be POTUS, including the British Commonwealth subject, Ted Cruz.
Yep your not eligible either Rubio.. Your mom wasn’t born is Scotland!!!
Well, considering all the Founders died before the 14th Amendment was passed, I’m not sure their opinions are even relevant.
Well it’s becoming more and more apparent.....that Trump is getting his campaign advice from Harry “Romney hasn’t paid taxes in ten years” Reid. Figures, since Trump also donated to Reid in the not too distant past.
But if he is, then all anchor babies are.
Carson's mother was only 13 when she married Carson's father, who was 28! That's NOT a legal marriage, that's statutory rape! Now, I'm not sayin' *I* think he's ineligible, but, y'know, the Democrats WILL be making this an issue in November if a RAPE BABY is a NATURAL born citizen! It's never been tested in court before! Ben better clear this thing up before it comes down to that!
Yep your not eligible either Rubio.. Your mom wasn't born is Scotland!!!
Yeah, no.
It is not where she was born, but whether she was a citizen when she delivered her baby.
But you already knew all this from other threads where you were schooled on civics 101. So when did Rubio's parent's become citizens again and when was the Rubot hatched?
Hey, there's no question for me that Jim Gilmore was born on present-day American soil, and so were both his parents and all his ancestors going way back when. But here's what I've heard: Virginia NEVER legally rejoined the union after the civil war. You know what that means? Jim Gilmore is legally a citizen of the Confederate States of America, NOT the United States. I'm not saying he is, but there's certainly that possibility, and we're gonna get killed in November if a Confederate citizen is on the ballot against an American one. Jim, for the sake of the party, please, you gotta get this cleared up in court -- sooner rather than later!
Washington, Jefferson, Adams etc. were all born subjects of the British crown...
Yep, everybody is born a citizen of somewhere. But the key point is that no-one was born a Natural Born Citizen of the United States Of America before either June 21, 1788, or, March 4, 1789, ( the former is when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the Constitution, and the latter is when the 1st Congress convened ).
Consequently the other point is that no Natural Born Citizen could be President before either June 21, 1823, or, March 4, 1824 because no would qualify until then!
Therefore they wrote the grandfather clause into Article II Section 1 so that the Office of the President need not remain vacant for 35 years! It is quite simple. The only question is how on Earth that people today could be confused about it.
So what was your point again?
he's been questioning that for years - resulting in Zero posting an altered bc (which proved the point) and Hawaii losing their original records.
It was somehow determined no-one had 'standing' to question Zero's eligibility, so here's Trump, like a dog knowing on an old bone, bringing up the NBC question again. Just like illegal immigration, we wouldn't be talking about NBC if it weren't for him. Rubio's not going to bring it up. Cruz isn't going to bring it up. Carson might have, but he's so low in the polls, who would listen? And we better settle the question, or 14 years from now, we're going to have a boatload of foreign national anchor babies claiming they've met the residency requirements to become president.
You have to watch Game of Thrones to get this reference but if Carson’s parents weren’t legally married he’s a bastard with no claim to the throne! Not even entitled to his father’s name, as a bastard from Michigan he would be surnamed “Detroit” or “Black” or “Lake” or something like that. ;d
If Trump was running against himself, the Scottish mother thing would come up.
As for Gay’s itch, Mailman are not really Americans, are they?
Jeb is clearly secretly dual citizen of Mexico.
“Virginia NEVER legally rejoined the union after the civil war.”
LOL
You’re correct that Donald Trump would indeed bring up the Scottish mother thing and question Donald Trump’s citizenship, if he was opposing himself for the nomination.
Heck, if Trump was seeking the GOP nomination back in 1860, he’d point out that the parentage of Abraham Lincoln’s mother Nancy Hanks is unknown, and suggest she might be an illegal immigrant from England when she gave birth to Abe. How do we KNOW she’s the daughter of Lucy Hanks?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Hanks_Lincoln_heritage
I can't imagine Cruz votes going to Rubio. Cruz has been proposing a scorched earth policy towards illegals; Rubio wants to debate it "and in 10 years" debate again. Cruz supporters who disagree with Cruz on immigration will swing to Kasich; those who agree with Cruz will swing to Trump.
I know it was just a pun!!!
He was born in the United States but his parents were not citizens yet.. He is an Anchor baby.. Throw the bum out!!
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