Nothing the Democrats have done was possible without the assistance of the GOP.
Neutering the natural born citizen clause was something BOTH parties wanted.
Natural born citizens are NATURALLY citizens because they are born here of citizen parents and have only ONE nationality.
BOTH parties wanted to run ineligible candidates.
Cruz, Jindal, Rubio, Haley and George P. Bush are all ineligible and were seen as the future of the party and why the GOP went along with the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
Even here on Free Republic many will argue that Anwar Al-Awlaki’s kids, born in Yemen to one citizen parent, are natural born citizens eligible to be President because they want Cruz to be eligible.
To you point, they both were willing, but the democRATS went there first.
Since 1861 the democRATS have been trying to destroy the constitution and the nation constructed by it.