I’ve said this twice before, I’ll say it again.
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It’s getting to the point that, with all of these exotic and interesting individuals with so many different flavorful foreign backgrounds to choose from, regular old natural born citizens with pure vanilla American backgrounds (at most, perhaps their grandparents were once citizens of a foreign land), though competent, say, and inarguably eligible, are being drowned out by others deemed more exciting from a marketing standpoint.
Of course, if we had the capacity to behave more maturely and self-respectfully as a nation, those “others” would be forced down into the audience like the rest of us, not up on the debate stage reserved for actual POTUS-eligible candidates.
Let the word go forth. Let us declare expressly that the Command in chief of the U.S. Armed Forces shall not be given to, nor devolve on, any but a plain vanilla Citizen. Exotic flavors need not apply.
“(at most, perhaps their grandparents were once citizens of a foreign land)”
Meaning that as of the moment of their birth, both of their parents at least had completed the process of putting their foreign allegiances in their respective rear-view mirrors, even if one or more of their grandparents hadn’t yet, or never did or would, make that leap of faith.
It’s all about purging the child’s life of direct foreign “country of origin” (or “unincorporated U.S. territory of origin” influence in the case of Gabbard) from either mom OR dad OR soil. Only that child is POTUS-eligible. No other need apply!