Posted on 01/03/2012 8:14:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Since my New Year’s prediction that Obama would select Hillary Clinton for his running mate in 2012 (and Joe Biden would become Secretary of State), I’ve been swamped by requests for my GOP prediction. Here goes.
You can forget the caucuses and early primaries. Mitt Romney will be the nominee. Republicans may be stupid but the GOP isn’t about to commit suicide. The other candidates are all weighed down by enough baggage to keep a 747 on the tarmac indefinitely.
For his running mate, Romney will choose Marco Rubio, the junior senator from Florida. Why do I say this?
First, Romney will need a right-winger to calm and woo the Republican right. Tea Partiers are attracted to Rubio – an evangelical Christian committed to reducing taxes and shrinking government. Rubio’s meteoric rise in the Florida House before coming to Congress was based on a string of conservative stances on state issues.
Rubio is also a proven campaigner, handily winning four House elections starting in 2002, and then beating popular incumbent Republican governor Charlie Crist in the 2010 Republican primary — with the help of Tea Partiers.
Moreover, he’s only 40, thereby giving the GOP ticket some youthful vigor.
And he’s Hispanic – a Cuban-American – at a time when the GOP needs to court the Hispanic vote.
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Exactly.
All this argument about "he's not a citizen b/c his parents weren't citizens" is utter nonsense. I agree that the only question never fully answered about Obama was whether he was born in Kenya and whisked to Hawaii a couple of days later to have to birth registered or was actually born in Hawaii.
Quite obviously, you need to come out from under your bed.
Wow. I’ll be polite and just say you’re completely wrong.
I guess, then, you’ll say that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, et al, would think it perfectly OK if the bastard son of George III, pro-created during a clandestine visit to the US, would be eligible for POTUS.
OK, I understand your “logic” now.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Rubio might win Florida AND Nueva York
Republicans may be stupid but the GOP isn’t about to commit suicide. .......................................... Riiiiiight! Don’t bet on it.
Obviously it does not matter to millions of Americans, as someone with a split allegiance to our nation is POTUS. However, it DOES matter to some of us.
I hope that you will allow for me to disagree with you. As a vet of WWII and a brother who died in the battle for Okinawa, I see our birth situations much like Rubio’s situation. Our parents were established residents of the USA. However, neither parent being of a foreign nation had become a citizen of the USA at the time of our births. I have after much learning about this ‘natural born citizen’ matter accepted that neither I or my brother can/should be classified as a USA ‘natural born citizen’. This is based on historical records of the Founding Fathers intent and use in the Constitution and actual later court decisions. I am a firm believer that parent’s citizenship together with USA birth must be an inviolate requirement for POTUSA. This being said that even though as a third grader I once told a teacher my ambition was to be POTUSA.
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He’s correct about one third, Reich is!
2. The GOP isn't threatened by defections of Cubans to the Left
3. Cubans aren't Mexicans - "Hispanic" is a made up ethnicity which aggregates nationalities who are wildly different
4. The Mexicans won't be happy unless someone in the GOP says the Southwest belongs to them - which the Dems do, and no "Republican" (this excludes John McCain, of course) ever will
So Rubio might be interesting but not necessary; Reich says crap like this because this is the kind of racially divisive politics that guys like him play
Wasn’t this commie midget pimpin hitlery last week?
There is nothing written into the Constitution, nor the 14th Amendment, which places into law that which Vattel espoused in his writtings. There is no case law which validates Vattel on the question of eligibility for POTUS. However, there are writtings which indicate that a “person” is a “Natural Born Citizen” whose father accepted allegiance to the U.S. Given that Rubio was born 19 years after his parents emmigrated from Cuba, I’d say there is argument his father had accepted allegiance to the U.S. There are also writtings which state that a person born on U.S. soil is recognized as a NBC at the time in which the person’s father has become a naturalized citizen. Rubio’s parents were naturalized in 1975. This is what my research has indicated. If you have some other research, more recent than Vattel, that contradicts, I’ll entertain it.
Take a good look at those who control our two political parties. You will find that most hide behind two facades, The first facade has some proclaiming they are Republican others Democrat. Peal away the first facade to find a second facade where all of them claim to be progressives. Behind that second facade you find their core political philosophy, communist/socialist.
Our two party system is really one party where they work hand in hand to destroy this nation as a bastion of freedom with torch held high where it can be seen world wide by those who yearn for those same freedoms.
The world wide communist/socialist utopia can not be attained as long as we exist.
The problem with your argument is that the bastard son of King George III would not meet the requirement of NOT having allegiance to another country or state. Thus, he would not have been, nor now would be, eligible to be POTUS.
Maybe he can be a candidate for the LPA leadership. This dufus needs to shut up and join the circus or do some midget porn.
Maybe he can be a candidate for the LPA leadership. This dufus needs to shut up and join the circus or do some midget porn.
If, at the time of your and your brother’s births, your parents had allegiance to their home country of origin, then, yes, you would not be considered NBC’s. If, however, your parents had accepted allegiance to the U.S. prior to your births, then, you would be considered, at the time of your births, NBC’s. This is based upon the research I have done on this matter. Admittedly, there is much room for different opinions as neither the Constitution, nor case law, adequately address these details.
Reich needs a box to stand on to see over the fence.. I doubt he can see any farther down the road then the next stop signal.
Unfortunately, Vattel’s “definition” is NOT written in the Constitution. This is why the 14th Amendment was added. And, again, unfortunately, the 14th Amendment also did NOT completely clarify the issue with respect to the eligibility for POTUS.
There are three supreme court cases that define quite clearly what constitutes a “natural born citizen”. A child born on US soil to parents who where citizens of the US prior to the child’s birth.
There are those who have changed the words of numerous supreme court cases found on line so as to hide the above “FACT”.
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