Incompetence wasn’t behind Schmidt or anyone else with the McCain campaign deciding to punt on vetting Obama. Any such vetting would eventually come down to whether or not Obama was even eligible for the office, and McCain couldn’t have that, as he had his own questionable issues in the same regard.
Sort like the joke about the Priest and Rabbi who run into each other at the local whore house....
I have very little use for McCain, but to lump him and Obama together regarding eligibility is absurd.
Being born overseas the child of two American citizens while your father was stationed there in the US military has absolutely NO comparison to having an underage US citizen mother and a foreign national father, possibly being born overseas and probably having claimed foreign student status for advantage in college admissions & scholarships.
If the child born of a serviceman serving overseas looses citizenship, then why serve? Ranks right up there with delaying/loosing ballots from overseas servicemen.