Posted on 06/19/2012 4:29:13 PM PDT by Drew68
HOLLAND, Mich.—Mitt Romney said Tuesday his campaign is vetting Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as a potential vice presidential candidate, contradicting several reports suggesting otherwise.
Romney told reporters Rubio is being "thoroughly vetted" for the VP job and described stories reporting contrary news as "false."
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"...The story was entirely false. Marco Rubio is being thoroughly vetted as part of our process."
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Didn’t Rubio last night on Hannity say he wasn’t being vetted?
But he isn’t eligible. His parents were not citizens at the time of his birth.
Ineligible AND a Mormon make for instant qualification
to Mr. RINO RomneyCARE.
It does explain why Rubio has been everywhere giving speeches and showing up in interviews. Too bad he keeps insisting on revealing himself to be a race baiter.
Some cub reporter figured out the best way to determine whether something IS happening, is to report that it is NOT...
Let’s hope Mitt wasn’t trying to keep this a secret.
I’m betting he doesn’t have much poker experience....
Is Rubio a Mormon!? I didn’t know they let Cubans into the LDS.
But he supports Amnesty! !
...makes Romney’s short list.
But he supports Amnesty! !
...makes Romney’s short list.
Feel free to volunteer for the Obama campaign, if you prefer the ONLY alternative.
He does have a problem with double allegiance.
Cuba by law makes a claim on him that Marco Rubio as one of their own citizens. Rubio was born to Cuban citizens at the time of his birth. Cuba ONLY sees him as Cuban. They do not recognize Rubio's US 14th Amendment citizenship.
Verbatim from a US State Department website:
"Dual Nationality
The Government of Cuba does not recognize the U.S. nationality of U.S. citizens who are Cuban-born or are the children of Cuban parents. These individuals will be treated solely as Cuban citizens and may be subject to a range of restrictions and obligations, including military service...."
This is a head fake to keep libs hyperventilating. Gen petraeus will be vp.
“But he isn’t eligible. His parents were not citizens at the time of his birth.”
That doesn’t matter. He was born on US soil therefore, under the 14th Amendment, he is an American citizen.
Did you not get the tweet? The 14th is dead along with the rest of the US Constitution.
The head fake by Romney here is likely so.
Another one we don’t want or need stuffed down our throats with a pitchfork.
Great.
It doesn’t matter what Cuba or any other country thinks of him. It matters what our government thinks of him and our government, following our Constitution, considers him a natural born citizen.
Yawn.
American citizen, yes. Natural Born Citizen, not so much. Words have meaning.
Natural born by definition is that there is no need of intervention by law to make persons citizens of a country. The 14th Amendment or any other man-made statutes, cannot create natural born citizens and therefore, they are not natural.
Moreover, the adoption of the 14th Amendment did not amend the Constitutional NBC clause.
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