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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Please educate yourself on this issue. He needs to be a “NATURAL BORN CITIZEN”. When it comes to eligibility for president or vice president as soon as you mention the 14th amendment, you show that you have not studied enough. The 14th amendment says NOTHING about “NATURAL BORN CITIZEN”. The phrase does not appear there, PERIOD. It appears ONLY in Article II, Section 1, Clause 5. Article XII extends this to include the vice president.
Just being “a citizen”, isn't enough to be president or vice president.
the kenyan commie was born in kenya and he is in the white house.
Welcome to FR.
OK so it DOES matter. First, the requirement in question is that the president be a natural born citizen, not simply citizen.
So while Rubio is clearly a citizen, he is just as clearly NOT a natural born citizen [not born on US soil to two US citizens at the time of his birth] hence Rubio is not eligible.
Yep
It does NOT! Born in the U.S. of two citizen parentS. It is so simple, I don't understand why some of you don't get it.
The framers meant it to be BOTH PARENTS, without question. The Supreme Court has ruled, BOTH PARENTS, without question.
This issue has been decided, actually it was never in question. The framers KNEW what they were doing. They KNEW what “Natural Born” meant.
That's already been settled by "Precedent", vis-a-vis, the Usurper from Kenya that's occupying the White Hut now......we don't need no steenkin' Constitution anymore (and NO ONE in Congress will challenge it).
Likewise, the Romney/Rubio ticket will give us two RINO's for the price of one.
Well I sure hope the vetting really is “thorough” and looks into Rubio’s natural born citizen status. Unlike the miserable vetting job that the DNC did!
No; that's NOT what the 14th Amendment says, but the Courts have RULED that it allows Anchor Babies to be treated that way. If you are vacationing in the USA as a Foreigner, or even here ILLEGALLY, you can drop a U.S. Citizen here and we pay their way forever......NOT what the 14th Amendment was intended to do, at all.
Geez, where have you been, sonny. .
You are correct. Those telling you that you are wrong have lost in every courtroom they've tried to argue their case.
His parents were not citizens at the time of his birth. He's just a plain old citizen - that doesn't cut it. But there are many more areas of employment that he may seek within the "government" - Golly, he's already a useless reacharound RINO senator, what more does he want?
The loonies who think that Rubio doesn’t qualify are out in force, obviously not realizing that precedent is all and several of our former presidents (and in fact, possibly Romney himself) would not qualify under their bizarre self-appointed standards.
Leaving that aside, I hope Romney doesn’t suggest Rubio, because Rubio needs to move away from Romney and get back to his conservative roots. Rubio is a great speaker and an extremely intelligent man, and I think he will be our President someday unless Bambi leaves the country in ashes.
However, Rubio has been getting more and more Establishment, and I think this is both a betrayal of the people who worked for and elected him, and a betrayal of his own principles in the interest of being more acceptable to the “mainstream” GOP. I hope he gets back to his conservative roots.
It is encouraging to realize how many citizens are not sheep, how many trust their intellects, and probably read the original sources. Most of those in the media, regardless of their claimed association with principles, conservative or liberal, confidently avoid the Chief Justice Waite and Chief Justice Marshall and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and the 14th Amendment.
Every US Senator (but McCain, because he was the subject) in April of 2008 signed his or her agreement with the following quotation from the archives of the Senate Judiciary Committee:
“My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen,” Chertoff replied. “That is mine, too,” said Leahy.”
Larry Klayman may have some failings, but he is unassailable in his citation of Minor v. Happersett regarding Obama’s ineligibility. Chief Justice Waite explained:
“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, 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, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”
The Minor case was “held precedent” in a number of supreme court definitions. Were there any doubt about the significance of this Soro’s Center For American Progress confirmed it by editing some twenty five Supreme Court decisions containing citations to Minor v. Happerset over the Summer of 2008. Cornell Law School did the same, again with oversight of Soro’s Center for Am. Progress's CIO, Carl Malamud, edited out a whole paragraph of Re: Lockwood, because it cites to Minor has “held” law - precedent. (Obama almost appointed Carl Director of the US Govt Printing Office; there is no telling what might have become of our national archives had that happened).
No court has contested Minor v. Happersett. The weaseling of judges is something to behold. Federal judges are a disgrace. Oaths clearly mean nothing. Even the military is infected, as they showed with the Colonel Lakin hearing, not allowing a decorated officer to present evidence, and sending him to Leavenworth because Obama’s citizenship papers could “be embarrassing.” They even blithly reordered the chain of military command, eliminating the Commander in Chief from responsibility for orders.
Until there is acknowledgment that the Constitution is no longer our foundation Obama’s ineligibility will not be forgotten. Supreme Court cases and the documents of founders and framers are being scrubbed and edited, but there is still paper in some libraries. We can all guess at why - McCain's entitlement as a former prisoner of war, the need for Rubio so that the crony capitalism which is so essential to the wealth of congressmen (read Schweizer’s “Throw Them All Out”), since Rubio’s ineligibility will insure that he is owned by those behind the curtain, .... the suppression of Article II Section 1 was deemed necessary. We know that at least twenty five attempts to amend it failed, right up to 2006, three by John Conyers between 2002 and 2007 afmed at Obama, one by Hatch for Scharzenegger, and four other attempts, not counting the Obama/McCaskill SB 2678, though it needed to be an amendment to have affect (and this writer might have supported SB 2678).
The only uncertainty about Obama’s ineligibility is that there is no law that forces the Supreme Court to abide by precedent. They could make new precedent. But until they do, Obama is not a constitutional president, even if the press and public use that title. As Justice Thomas pointed out, the Court is evading the issue. We are presumably a nation of laws, and not men, though John Adams might judge that we have failed to protect, and thus lost, our constitutional protections.
Please cite.
“Ineligible” bump
It’s irrelevant that Cuba’s communist law declares people outside of its borders to still be ‘one of theirs’. We do not recognize that law in the United States. It is also totally ridiculous to use a communist law in a foreign country making claims on people as evidence for “a problem with double allegiance.”
Forget his citizen status for a minute, Rubio is about as qualified to be a heartbeat from the presidency as Obama was 4 years ago. I am not interested in an unqualified pretty boy with good hair that is going to pull in some imaginary “hispanic vote”. Rubio would be an even worse choice than Huntsman.
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