I’m sure there are plenty of republicans who would like to see that pesky natural born citizen requirement go away. In fact there are a few fairly decent conservatives who would make fine presidents.....IF they were eligible. Pete Hoekstra is a name that I’ve heard floated as a potential presidential candidate but he would never get my support because he doesn’t meet the natural born standard any more than Shwarzenegger or Granholm.
Yep. It'd pass majority in Congress, easy. The impediment is obtaining enough inertia to get a constitutional amendment. I looked into the various proposals to relax the "natural born" requirement, and found a few Republican sponsors, Hatch being one, but also Dana Rohrabacher and Darrell Issa.