Romney and Rubio are BOTH INELIGIBLE.
The GOP should be cursed for what it has done
to the Constitution.
There is no question that Rubio is not eligible. Like Obama, he was not born to parents who were citizens.
There have been cogent explanations along the line that Romney's father was a 14th Amendment citizen, a naturalized citizen, like Obama, because George's father was citizen. Remember, under Article 1 section 8 Congress was chartered with creating a uniform rule for naturalization. It had nothing to do with natural born citizenship. Citizens are either naturally born citizens, or native-born, like anchor babies, and become naturalized citizens like Wong Kim Ark. George was a naturalized citizen, which was an issue raised around a George Romney candidacy.
I would welcome a correction on my recollection. With Obama running again it is clear that the Republicans will again not participate in any vetting of presidential candidates, though they did participate in hearings for McCain, and never established his eligibility. The only actionable Senate measure to make McCain eligible was S.2678, sponsored by Obama and McCaskill, the ‘‘Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act’’, in February of 2008. Lewis Carroll didn't write this script. Why would the Senate, Obama and McCaskill, the core of Obama's candidacy, submit a bill to the Senate if McCain was eligible? It failed to pass.
Senate Resolution 511 was cobbled together in April 2008 when S.2678 failed, and like any resolution, it was a ‘feel good’ statement from the Senate to the affect that “while McCain satisfied the requirement that he be born to citizen parents, we think our framers would have overlooked an unfortunate technicality around the sovereignty of the Canal Zone, an issue which was fixed just a year after McCain's birth.” The weasel words for SR.511 were provided by Obama’s Harvard Con Law professor, and campaign committee adviser, Larry Tribe, citing the only congressional effort to extend the definition of natural born citizen, the 1790 Nationality Act. Tribe neglects to mention that the 1790 Act was entirely rescinded, by Washington, in 1795. Its replacement made the foreign born children of citizen parents into a citizens, no long a natural born citizens. It was all politics to protect Obama’s ineligibility by helping ther aisle crosser from McCain Feingold, the innocent bystander from the Keating 5, to be the sacrificial lamb to the ascendancy of The One.
Both parties find the Constitution an inconvenient obstacle to their assumption of the reigns of power.
Rubio is a red herring. Having someone so unpopular as Obama is, at least to conservatives, RINOs figure they can protect themselves from scrutiny for paving the way for, failing to vet, Obama. McCain was vetted, and never found eligible.
For real experience, along with Hispanic origins, Suzanna Martinez is the real thing. Allen West, though he avoids the topic of constitutional eligibility, is someone who understands our external, and internal enemies, even if he won't defend the brave Dr. Lakin, who took his oath seriously and went to prison for it. In combat who would you trust, Rubio, or Martinez or West, or Dr. Lakin? Dr. Lakin is now a felon for obeying the law, while military officers declared that the President was no longer the commander in chief, contray to the oath required of all military officers, who owe allegiance to the Constitution. I'd recommend Lakin's promotion to vice presidential candidate, but believe that somewhere in the law there is a prohibition against felons? Not sure?
Sarah Palin I'd save for primarying Romney, the RINO candidate, in 2016.