I cannot speak for others on this, but as for myself, I fully expected John McCain and the larger Republican party establishment to do this. At the time I did not realize that John McCain had a political vulnerability on this issue, and he would therefore not raise it because it was likely to do more damage to HIM than it would to Barry.
You were not alone. Sadly, McCain, who was armed with Senate Resolution 511 which clearly underscored the two citizen parent requirement, did not make a peep.
It was also disappointing that not a single office of the Republican party, state or national, lifted a finger at the primary level. This despite election laws in virtually every juridiction that would have supported a challenge.
I have long argued the only rational excuse for the failure of the Republicans to procedurally challenge O’s qualifications at the 2009 Joint Session was that they had quality intel that Clinton presented a greater threat to our national security.
If so, given the cost in terms of the Constitution and based on what we know today, that must have been a hell of a threat.
I fear, however, that they allowed a constitutionally unqualified individual to squeak by simply for political gain. They ought to take an oath that protects us against that sort of fraud. /sarc