[eddie willers]

How is Romney not eligible?

According to some freepers, if you cannot trace back to the Mayflower, you cannot be President.

Kinda defeats all the action of 1776, but hey...purity prevails.

[DiogenesLamp]

According to some freepers, if you cannot trace back to the Mayflower, you cannot be President.

Kinda defeats all the action of 1776, but hey...purity prevails.

There are no reasonable freepers who assert this. A few muddled souls have claimed that your parents had to be "natural born citizens" but only a very few have claimed such and they were quickly corrected by the vast majority who knew better.

It doesn't matter HOW your parents became citizens, whether by naturalization, by statute, by derivation, by being born within the geographical boundaries of the U.S. or by being "born a Natural citizen." What matters is that a born child has no claim on allegiance but to this country.

Undivided Allegiance is the entire point.

[Jonty30]

I tend to think that Romney is eligible, since his father was running to be the Democrat nominee.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think the elites were far enough along to ignore the Constitution at that point.

So, if Romney I was eligible, Romney II must also be eligible.

[GregNH]

Now there is an intelligent response. You have a problem with the Constitution sir?

[Brown Deer]

if you cannot trace back to the Mayflower, you cannot be President.

Where did you get that information?

Looks like Mitt Romney has a few Mayflower ancestors (ancestry of Mitt Romney's great great grandfather), such as Joan Hurst, John Tilley, Elizabeth Tilley, and John Howland.

The fact is, most of our U.S. Presdents were NOT Mayflower descendants.