Posted on 03/02/2024 10:18:16 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Friday, during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) said she was “open” to serving as a vice-presidential nominee.
“Tulsi, you’re being considered for a VP slot,” host Jesse Watters asked. “Is that something you’re open to?”
“I would be open to that,” Gabbard replied. “My mission is to serve our country. I want to be in a position to solve problems, Jesse, and we’ve got a lot of them to solve.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Unlike what others may think, I think Trump’s love for America exceeds his love for his own aggrandizement as evidenced by his walking away from his cushy zillionaire life and entered into hand-to-hand combat with the forces of fire-breathing evil he didn’t expect but for America’s sake was willing.
If I’m right, Trump would welcome his successor as hopefully taking MAGA to an even greater level.
But if Trump has Vivek do what I think Vivek should do, then I don’t think Vivek would have much of an opportunity to steal Trump’s thunder. Vivek should spend the next four years going to every state in the union and influence them to STOP taking federal funding.
State sovereignty and independence from the feds, like they’re supposed to be. MORE MAGA!
I’m a-hopin’.
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That’s why the 16th needs to be repealed along with the 17th and 19th. The states would once again have more control over how much money their creature, the federal gov, is given. It gets way too much, currently.
The States don’t need ANY constitutional amendment to STOP taking federal funding. They need to do so. NOW!!!
Only Vivek supports all of that, with energy & above average competence. Problem is Vivek would not bring in any additional block of voters. Tulsi does.
One thing in her favor is that Hellary called her a “Russian asset”.
Gun grabber gabbard??? I guess the bumpstock banner would be a great match to infringe. A pair of Anti 2A leaders. Hooray
Haley or ->Hillary!™
she appears to have some moxi but frankly I’d like to see a more identifiably-conservative Veep candidate
we have to consider that anyone who he selects will have a leg-up, advantage if they decide to run for Pres in 2028
And our enemies, foreign and domestic, are A-OK with her being one heartbeat away from the presidency.
She’s a democrat from a long line of democrats.
I like Blackburn and she is a very good communicator.
She’d be a poison pill in the administration. That’s not being a purist. It’s being sane.
No offense, but you’re just an idiot if you think Gabbard would be a good running mate for Trump.
No.
I remember reading that she weight lifts as part of a fitness routine but I also think she played organized sports in college, yes?
Let me educate you all.
There are only TWO (2) (Deux) types of U.S. citizenship.
1. Native citizenship
2. Naturalized citizenship.
THAT’S IT!
Then what is this “natural born” citizen I’ve heard so much about?
“Natural born citizen” is a constitutional requirement for President, Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 AND Vice President, Twelfth Amendment, the last sentence, “But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
This “requirement” known by ALL framers and founders at the time to mean “The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.”
(NOTICE: The word “parents” is plural. Meaning BOTH parents.)
This is where the term in the constitution comes from, The Law of Nations, by Emerich de Vattel, Book 1, page 212. Published 1758.
https://famguardian.org/Publications/LawOfNations/vattel_01.htm
From an article about Tulsi’s eligibility at Heavy.com.
“A natural born citizen is typically described as someone who was a citizen from birth and never “had to go through the naturalization process,” Political Science Professor Colin Moore told BuzzFeed News shortly after Gabbard announced her intention to run for President. Moore said that most people born in American Samoa are disqualified from being President because they aren’t given birthright citizenship status by the U.S., but are considered non-citizen U.S. nationals.”
https://heavy.com/news/2019/07/tulsi-gabbard-ethnicity/
More from the article about Tulsi’s eligibility at Heavy.com.
The UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal concluded in 2012 that an American Samoan does have a standing for running, although it might be challenged. “An American Samoan candidate can rest assured that amidst current precedent, he has a legal and political leg to stand on if he decides to run.”
But Gabbard has another reason for qualifying. Tulsi Gabbard’s mother, Carol Gabbard, was born in Indiana. Her father, Mike Gabbard, was born in American Samoa and his father was a U.S. citizen. Tulsi is a U.S. citizen from birth based on her parents alone, BuzzFeed News concluded. U.S. law states that a person has citizenship at birth if “The person has at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen; and the U.S. citizen parent meets certain residence or physical presence requirements in the United States or an outlying possession prior to the person’s birth in accordance with the pertinent provision.””
https://heavy.com/news/2019/07/tulsi-gabbard-ethnicity/
This article (above) is so full of holes you could drive a convoy through it.
1. “A natural born citizen is typically described as someone who was a citizen from birth and never “had to go through the naturalization process,”
a. No, not exactly. Remember, ONLY 2 types of citizenship. A natural born citizen “IS” a “native born citizen”. A “citizen at/from birth”, BUT all native citizens are NOT, DO NOT MEET, the constitutional requirement for President/Vice President, of “natural born citizen” status at the time OF THEIR BIRTH.
2. most people born in American Samoa are disqualified from being President because they aren’t given birthright citizenship status by the U.S., but are considered non-citizen U.S. nationals.”
a. Yes, not exactly. “given birthright citizenship”. Nobody “GIVES YOU” “birthright citizenship”. You have it when you are born, or you don’t.
What he meant to say was that she is NOT a “native” citizen and therefore can NOT meet the “natural born citizen requirement for President OR Vice President. In THAT he is correct.
3. “The UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal”
a. You know the “Journal” that supersedes the U.S. Constitution. /S
4. “But Gabbard has another reason for qualifying. Tulsi Gabbard’s mother, Carol Gabbard, was born in Indiana. Her father, Mike Gabbard, was born in American Samoa and his father was a U.S. citizen.”
a. NO. Here they are making the argument that Tulsi is a “native” citizen. Apples and Pineapples. She MIGHT be, but THAT doesn’t make her eligible.
Where her paternal GRANDFATHER was born has ZERO bearing on eligibility.
5. “U.S. law states that a person has citizenship at birth if “The person has at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen; and the U.S. citizen parent meets certain residence or physical presence requirements in the United States or an outlying possession prior to the person’s birth in accordance with the pertinent provision.”
A. Correct, not exactly. This is again talking about “native” citizenship, NOT natural born citizen status. To be a “native citizen” only requires ONE parent to be a U.S. citizen WHEN the child was born.
I say not exactly because depending on the territory or possession you were born in various laws may govern whether you are born a U.S. citizen or not.
On one Island possession if you were born on one half of the Island you would be a U.S. citizen, if born on the other half, you would not.
Even Puerto Rico, it would depend on WHEN (what year) you were born. Born before that date and you would not be born a U.S. citizen.
That’s why I always say that to be POSITIVE that you meet the natural born citizen requirement, you had to have been born in one of the contiguous 48 states to TWO citizen parents.
Otherwise there MIGHT BE a problem. Alaska and Hawaii didn’t become states until 1959. Anyone born there before they became states (just territories) then different laws MIGHT apply.
This topic is getting to be like the USA Uke war/Russia: A handful of zealots drowning in a sea of FR clear thinkers.
Can’t stand her. Her position on abortion is criminal being in favor of full time abortions and killing babies who are also born alive. I’m not sure what the attraction is to this drifter. She’s a democrat in democrat clothing . . .
Neither will be on the VP list.
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