Posted on 02/21/2016 10:58:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
After a second place finish in South Carolina's Republican primary, Marco Rubio laughed off a suggestion by Donald Trump that the Florida senator may not be eligible to run for president.
"I'm gonna spend zero time on his interpretation of the Constitution with regards to eligibility and I'm gonna spend all my time talking about what this campaign should be about," Rubio said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
On Saturday Trump retweeted a Twitter user's claim that Rubio is ineligible to be president. When asked about the retweet, Trump said in a separate interview on "This Week" he had never looked into Rubio's eligibility and was only starting a dialogue.
"This is a pattern, this is a game he plays," said Rubio. "He says something that's edgy and outrageous, and then the media flocks and covers that and then no one else can get any coverage on anything else."
Rubio argued that Trump was able to dominate media coverage while there were still 15 people running for the nomination, but as the race narrows, "that's not gonna work anymore."
"We need to remember that over 70 percent of Republicans nationally have basically said, 'We're not voting for Donald Trump,'" he said.
Rubio also knocked Trump for not exhibiting much knowledge of foreign policy.
"To say, 'I'm just gonna surround myself with really smart people,' you know, that's not enough," Rubio said. "You yourself have to make judgments, you have to understand these things."
Rubio added the world would not wait until the new president "catches up" before it starts testing the United States.
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Well don't worry about it Anchor-boy, the rest of us are all over it.
“They are American citizens, but you know that.”
Definitely NOT natural born, as I explained using Constitutional concepts and terminology.
“...your juvenile rantings.”
As someone who accused me of stinking up the site, bear witness of my “rantings”.
Seems the Rube forgot to flat out declare he is eligible.
Why is Marco Rubio playin 0bama’s sorry game?
So over 90% of Republicans have said basically that they are not going to vote for Rubio?
Thank you, move to the head of the class. It was strictly politics as these things always turn out to be.
Ding ding ding! Winner winner chicken dinner!
Until and unless courts issue a definitive ruling on what natural born citizen means within the context of the presidency, we have to assume that these guys are eligible to run for president.
Hussein Soetoro was safe because he was a RAT. Rubio, if nominated, would only be safe until the general election. Then the RATs would take him out in court.
In my opinion, neither are eligible. Rubio is a naturalized citizen but not a natural born citizen. There’s a difference.
No whys, ifs, or buts. Blacks were not considered humans in the 1700s, traded around like property until the mid 1800s, and not allowed to vote until the mid 1900s. Those are the facts.
The civil war victory, lead by Republicans, gave them the freedom. Again, a hundred years later, the democrats had to be defeated for them to get their voting rights.
Are you against having a natural born citizen as President? Bizarre.
Just barely, he's an anchor baby.
He needs more, as he's also a Cuban.(calls himself a Cuban/American)
Obviously, I think Cruz and Rubio are NBC.
Just like Andrew Jackson's Irish immigrant parents didn't allow him to be President?
“Just like Andrew Jackson’s Irish immigrant parents didn’t allow him to be President?”
Jackson was born in 1767. He was born before the Constitution was written and that generation was grandfathered in.
They ARE...but they WERE NOT at the time of his birth. Small detail.
What about Buchanan, Arthur, Wilson and Hoover?
And he's a creepy liar! The word that's always come to mind when I think of or see Rubio is, "smarmy".
He outright lied to I.C.E. agents over immigration. He'll be another Obama on closing the border.
I do not think you need a judge to rule on a definition.
“natural born” modifies the word Citizen.
After the American revolution, all inhabitants, be they German or British or French, dropped whatever Citizenship they were born with and became American Citizens.
Going forward, these newly minted US Citizens had babies, who if born on US soil, became natural born Citizens!
....The Declaration also referred to the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” as justification for the Americans’ separation from the British monarchy. Most eighteenth-century Americans believed that nature, the entire universe, was God’s creation.[90] Therefore, he was “Nature’s God.” Everything, including man, was part of the “universal order of things”, which began with God and was pervaded and directed by his providence...
By God’s providence, then, the children of US Citizens were themselves natural born US Citizens.
Of course, people from other countries could travel to the US, renounce their birth Citizenship, and apply to the government for US Citizenship
Rubio lied bigtime to Phyllis Schlafly to get her support. Ya don’t lie to Phyllis.
...During the American Revolutionary War Jackson, whose family supported the revolutionary cause, acted as a courier. He was captured, at age 13, and mistreated by his British captors...
Jackson was part of the revolution. The fact of Independence allowed Jackson to drop whatever Citizenship he was born with, and claim US Citizenship.
These revolutionary made Citizens were grandfathered and eligible for POTUS
What about Buchanan, Arthur, Wilson and Hoover?
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