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LOL! Rubio is fully qualified under the Constitution to be president. There is not a court in the land that would find that the Constitution really meant only the children of parents born here. It is not parentage that confers US citizenship, but place of birth, which is why we can have everything from “anchor babies” to the fact that people born to US parents outside of the United States are not considered eligible for the presidency (unless born on what is technically US soil, that is, a military base or an embassy). We went through all this with McCain and Obama.

Well, we didn’t really go through it with Obama, since nobody even cared about the fact that he had nothing to back up his assertion that he was born here and in fact even had newspaper articles (which he never corrected, if they were wrong) referring to him as “Kenyan born.” But McCain sure got a lot of scrutiny on this one, since he had been born out of the country and in a hospital that was used by the military but not actually on the military base. It was a technicality, but I think the reason the Dems agreed to let it go was so that Obama wouldn’t be required to prove anything and because they knew McCain was a lousy candidate and would be sure to lose.

Problem on FR is that people are too swayed by great speakers.

I remember when Alan Keyes was everybody's favorite. Well, how did he do in the Senate race up in IL?

Fred Thompson?

Bachmann is a great speaker, but can she lead also?

Good speakers are a fabulous asset right now...they're doing a good job of getting the public to understand conservative principles.

But we're going to need a great exec as well. People in the legislatures just generally don't do that as well.