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