If McCain were eligible, why pass HR 511, and why did Repubs sign it as if needed? They should have refused. If there was any question about his birth in the Republic of Panama hospital (not the US military hospital), they should have nominated someone else to ensure they were not violating the Constitution.
Their failure to do so, left them wide open to charges of being bought to keep silent, and makes them as guilty as Dems. The whole issue of eligibility is a tangle of interpretations and findings, Vattel’s info and various rulings, including Taitz, Berg and Apuzzo, not yet settled by the SCOTUS, who refuse to touch it.
Why does Congress do 90% of what they do? Beats the hell out of me.