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Marco Rubio: I'm not going to be the vice president
Hot Air ^ | April 14, 2012 | Tina Korbe

Posted on 04/14/2012 8:32:14 PM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome

In an interview with CNN today, Marco Rubio said in no uncertain terms that he’s not going to be the vice president.

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, widely speculated to be a top pick for the Republican presidential running mate, once again firmly denied he would join the GOP ticket.

“I’m not going to be the vice president,” Rubio said Friday in an interview with CNN en Español’s Ismael Cala. “I’m not.”

We have two options. We can assume that Rubio meant to imply he wouldn’t join the 2012 GOP ticket under any circumstances — OR — we can parse his words. He didn’t say he wouldn’t join the 2012 GOP ticket, after all. He said he’s not going to be the vice president. Maybe that means he’s still open to run with Mitt Romney — but he doesn’t think they would win.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; 2012veep; elections; marcorubio; obama; rubio; rubio2912; rubio4romney
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To: Drew68

Unfortunately no one is listening to what is the truth.

Obama, Bobbie jindal, rubio are not eligible to be President or VP


41 posted on 04/14/2012 10:21:43 PM PDT by South Dakota (shut up and drill)
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To: Drew68

More than likely after Texas. And it’s not just about Newt being the nominee; it’s about Mitt not hitting 1144.


42 posted on 04/15/2012 12:29:33 AM PDT by Alt Right (Voted for Clinton in 92 (my first election) and the Republican Revolution in 1994!)
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To: Newt 2012
More than likely after Texas. And it’s not just about Newt being the nominee; it’s about Mitt not hitting 1144.

First thing I've seen you post I can agree with.


43 posted on 04/15/2012 12:44:06 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

That’s because too much was made in that other thread about a hypothetical. I guess any defense of the ABO stance seemed suspect given my sign up date. I still think we have a shot.


44 posted on 04/15/2012 12:51:14 AM PDT by Alt Right (Voted for Clinton in 92 (my first election) and the Republican Revolution in 1994!)
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To: Red Badger; theBuckwheat; WhiskeyX
"Maybe he isn’t elegible.........;^)"

That was the thrust of my "Third Option" comment in #7.

What gives with suggestion after suggestion of prospective candidates/running mates who have eligibility issues?

We need a SCOTUS ruling to clear up the doubts. So far, the only definition not in doubt, as handed down by SCOTUS as to what constitutes a NBC is found in the Minor v Happersett case.

45 posted on 04/15/2012 2:14:52 AM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome (If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: Flotsam_Jetsome

Glad he won’t be our vice president.


46 posted on 04/15/2012 2:24:53 AM PDT by winkadink (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
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To: WhiskeyX
Marco Rubio is not eligible to the Office of the Vice President, because he is not a natural born citizen of the United States as required by the U.S. Constitution. His parents were citizens of Cuba when he was born on the soil of the United States.

It may be, WhiskeyX, that the Republican ‘leadership’ would like Rubio in the race to guarantee that those leaders won't be confronted with their violation of their oaths (most are attorney's - officers of the court), should we have a new attorney general. They covered for McCain, when even McCaskill and Obama couldn't get their ‘‘Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act’’, S.2678, February 2008, passed. It was patently a quid pro quo - we won't ask about Obama if you stop your lawyers from explaining why McCain is ineligible, which they had been doing since about 2000.

It is sickening, but revealing, to see in how little esteem Republican politicians and party operatives hold the Constitution and Supreme Court. Rubio could become a hero if he were actually to explain why he isn't running; but he won't. Too many careers will be destroyed if the public becomes informed that while the left executed the agitprop, which they do much better than Republicans, Republicans were full party to deception. The left used ridicule and the bait of hidden documents to keep citizens, few of whom have read The Constitution critically, ignorant about the meaning of natural born citizen, which, like every other term in the Constitution, is not defined in the Constitution itself, but by the common language and common-law familiar to its framers. That way, as words morph, change their meanings, the intentions of the framers are not lost.

There are probably over a hundred justices who never questioned the use of “born in the country to parents who were its citizens”, which had been used in dozens of Supreme Court decisions before Chief Justice Waite made it precedent, including all nine justices who turned the common law (just what you would assume it to be) into positive law, or precedent, in Minor v. Happersett, 88 US 162. They all agreed with the Chief Justice Morrison Waite who said "it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens," "It was never doubted" until it became politically expedient to pretend those words were never written. Soros' acolytes made it easier to not notice those words by scrubbing the largest public archives of Supreme Court decisions, at justia.com, of citations to Minor v. Happersett, so that curious citizens and law students executing a search will not be returned pointers to Minor v. Happersett. The KGB could not have managed information more skillfully.

47 posted on 04/15/2012 2:45:01 AM PDT by Spaulding
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To: Spaulding

Rubio was born in 1971. His parents were naturalized in 1975. Rubio is a dual US-Cuban citizen.


48 posted on 04/15/2012 3:35:59 AM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: Drew68
I wonder just what other parts of the Constutution ought to be dismissed as just “crap.”
49 posted on 04/15/2012 3:42:56 AM PDT by Radix ("..Democrats are holding a meeting today to decide whether to overturn the results of the election.")
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To: Waryone
Maybe Rubio is smart enough to know the kind of trouble this would cause. He has been questioned about the citizenship of his parents many times before and unlike those who choose to ignore the requirements of the Constitution, he’s not stupid.

Then I say he should be the real patriot and run. When asked for proof of citizenship, offer up a forged pdf file. Then let the real popcorn event begin.

51 posted on 04/15/2012 3:44:27 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: trebb
"When asked for proof of citizenship, offer up a forged pdf file. Then let the real popcorn event begin."

At the rate things have been going thus far, he'd probably get a pass on the forged pdf file. After all, there's precezident, right?

52 posted on 04/15/2012 4:29:19 AM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome (If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: Flotsam_Jetsome
At the rate things have been going thus far, he'd probably get a pass on the forged pdf file. After all, there's precezident, right?

You've nailed why it would never come up - they don't want to have to look any closer at Obama.

53 posted on 04/15/2012 4:43:42 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: Flotsam_Jetsome

He is not eligible to be vice president. Neither is Jindal.


54 posted on 04/15/2012 6:16:34 AM PDT by Diggity
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To: Radix
I wonder just what other parts of the Constutution ought to be dismissed as just “crap.”

The made-up parts.

55 posted on 04/15/2012 6:17:35 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Flotsam_Jetsome

There is no maybe to it. The natural born requirement has two components: 1) the person must be born here; 2) both his parents must be citizens at the time of his birth. Rubio was born here, but his parents were not yet citizens.

see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Rubio


56 posted on 04/15/2012 6:18:47 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: Flotsam_Jetsome

Marco knows he’s not eligible.


57 posted on 04/15/2012 6:45:49 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Drew68

Your contempt and gross disrespect for the Constitution and the people who would protect and defend it in accordance with the oath tthey swore is noted.


58 posted on 04/15/2012 9:20:03 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: claudehopper

So, the Constitution’s disqualification of the children born with their foreign parents’ allegiance to another sovereign nation is irrelevant to you.


59 posted on 04/15/2012 9:27:09 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: claudehopper

So, the Constitution’s disqualification of the children born with their foreign parents’ allegiance to another sovereign nation is irrelevant to you.


60 posted on 04/15/2012 9:27:23 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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