That will bring the issue to the forefront, and people will finally see the hypocrisy in Obama's claim to Natural Born Citizen status. When Obama drops out of the race, the Republican nominee can then choose another running mate.
you are correct.
Rubio selected for VP would be a great ‘teaching tool’ for the great uninformed masses...and they’d be so relieved that he was ineligible that they’d not understand the connection until....DOH! Oh, O!
That is an ideal scenario.
Hmmm....I hadn't thought about this, since Rubio has been adamant that he will NOT be the VP pick and showing every sign (my interpretation) that he knows fully well that no constitutionalist (such as he claims to be) could agree to violate the Constitution.
You do raise the interesting scenario of what the Dems would do if Rubio WAS picked.
The Dems are scared to death of Rubio and would stop at nothing to prevent him from peeling off a big chunk of the Hispanics.
Their attack, IMO, would be to point out that unlike Obama, who has ONE US citizen parent,...Rubio has ZERO US citizen parents! On this basis alone Dems could claim this distinction makes Obama eligible and Rubio ineligible. Dems could point to the precedent that the entire Congress ignored Obama’s publicly claimed non-citizen father, while there is NO precedent for a person with ZERO citizen parents (Chester Arthur's were unknown).
On this basis alone, the Dems might be bold enough to risk a fast-track NBC hearing before SCOTUS to try to remove Rubio and count on SCOTUS being too chicken to also remove Obama. Frankly, I don't think Obama's legal team would allow that SCOTUS test case if they could prevent it. But they might be too boxed in to try to prevent it, having told their peeps that there is NO QUESTION that Obama is eligible.