Why aren't there any Romney ballot eligibility challenges?

me | Jan. 31, 2012 | Me

[Mr170IQ]

Everybody here, myself included, is desperate that Romney not be the Republican candidate for president.

I suggest that the most cost-effective way of accomplishing that would be to bring Natural Born Citizen ballot eligibility suits against him in a few states, and try to get a few rulings in our favor before the RNC convention. I have read that there is no evidence that Romney's father was naturalized before Romney's birth.

If he is found to be ineligible anywhere before the convention, his delegates won't matter. Worst case there would be a brokered convention.

Why isn't anyone trying this? Lack of standing worries?

[Mr170IQ]

Is there time to get this rolling before Romney locks the nomination?

[Sacajaweau]

His father was a citizen. Do your homework. Mitt’s a Natural Born citizen.

[ez]

Then is Mitt calling himself the “son of Mexican immigrants?”

[Drew68]

I suggest that the most cost-effective way of accomplishing that would be to bring Natural Born Citizen ballot eligibility suits against him in a few states, and try to get a few rulings in our favor before the RNC convention.

Indeed, this has been so effective in stopping Obama.

Why isn't anyone trying this?

Knock yourself out.

[2ndDivisionVet]

How do US citizens matriculate from ol’ Mexico?

[autumnraine]

Being born outside of the country to two US Citizens does not make you NOT a natural born citizen (and that is regarding his father even, not even applying to Mitt!)

The issue with Obama being born outside the US is that his mother wasn’t old enough to transfer citizenship AND his father was not a US citizen.

Mitt IS a NBC.

[WhiskeyX]

You say Mitt's father was a U.S. citizen. The problem with that claim is the uncertainty of whether or not Mitt Romney's father really was a U.S. citizen at the time of Mitt Romney's birth in the United States. The Church of Latter-Day Saints is reported to have sent the grandfather and others down to Mexico to establish a Mormon colony there. During the later Mexican revolutionary wars, they were dispossessed of their properties and fled Mexico for the safety of the United States. Mitt Romney's father, George Romney, was born in Chihuahua, Mexico. It is claimed that George Romney was born with U.S. citizenship and natural born U.S. citizenship because both of his parents were U.S. citizens. This claim has been questioned, because the letter sent by the LDS to the Romney grandfather instructed them to become citizens of Mexico. If they did as instructed with the approval of the Government of Mexico, the possibility exists that George Romney may have been born on the soil of Mexico as a natural born citizen of Mexico in addition to any U.S. citizenship he may have also been entitiled to claim. Such a divided loyalty is the circumstance which the Constitutional Convention attempted to disqualify from eligibility to the Office of the President with the natural born citizen requirement in the Constitution. Consequently, there is a reasonable basis for questioning whether or not George Romney and/or Mitt Romney qualify as a natural born citizens whose parents did not have any divided loyalties as a consequence of having a parent who was not a citizen of the United States.

[autumnraine]

P.S. Don’t want Mitt as Prez, just stating the facts.

[WhiskeyX]

Mitt Romney may not be a natural born citizen if George Romney was born in Chihuahua, Mexico with natural born Mexican citizenship and/or U.S. citizenship, natural born or not. Natural born citizenship requires no natural born allegiance to a foreign sovereign in competition with any allgiances to the domestic sovereign.

[FryingPan101]

Moderator, if you can remove this link. I just tried to post the story and saw that I can’t even post an exerpt from the El Paso Times. Thank you.

[Diogenesis]

Romney is NOT eligible.

Want PROOF. Mexican Romney defends Obama
on his lack of documentations, removing THAT issue, too.

If Romney is on the ticket, we will not vote for
GOP candidates EVER.

[John Valentine]

If George Romney was a citizen at the time of Mitt Romney’s birth, ditto his mother, then Mitt Romney is an NBC regardless of the type of citizenship his father held (NBC, Statutory Citizen by birth or or naturalized).

I have never heard the claim made that George Romney was not a US citizen, and I doubt that any such claim is about to be made now.

[Graybeard58]

Confession time - I am not a natural born citizen. One of my grand fathers was a Huguenot, arriving in this country around 1690.

Born in France, he fled to England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and from there came to the U.S. I must be French. Oh, the shame of it all.

Mon Dieu!

[vanilla swirl]

Idiot, look up what “natural born citizen” means.
Don’t know about Mitt but Obama def isn’t. As entered into evidence in a Georgia court last week.
Waiting for judge’s decision in the next couple of days.
Let the riots begin!

[Humal]

Here is a link to a FR article that reports on the eligibility of Mitt Romney’s father George when George ran for president http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2822173/posts The question of George’s eligibility was raised, but he withdrew before the investigation. I too have seen an article on Mitt’s eligibility because (as the article claims) George Romney was a Mexican citizen at the time of Mitt’s birth. In April 2011, Romney said the proof of OBAMA’S eligibility has passed. See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2703835/posts

[Adams]

Here we go again...........

[An.American.Expatriate]

I you have actual PROOF that would hold up in court, bring on a challeng! A mere supposition is not normally sufficient ...

OTOH, petitioning the SoS’s of the States (or whichever office might be responsible) to vet any and all candidates regarding thier eligability is definately something that each and every citizen can, and should, do.

[Flintlock]

THIS is the reason why the RINO party won’t challange our present emperor.

[Ozymandias Ghost]

Because it is a senseless waste of time that will only enrich sleazy lawyers.