Stop it, Hannity! Your Shining Star, Sen. Rubio, is NOT eligible!

[Jim Delaney]

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Stop it, Hannity! Your Shining Star, Sen. Rubio, is NOT Eligible.

Talking heads and politicians often have a problem keeping their brains and their mouths, their hearts and their minds in proper sync. Listening, Hannity? O'Reilly? Beck?

 

On the issue of Senator Marco Rubio's becoming either Romney's or Newt's VP--and both candidates, pandering to the Hispanic voters in Florida, alluded to their interest in a Rubio VP slot--here's a flash: RUBIO IS NOT ELIGIBLE!

To be eligible for VP, per the 12th Amendment (1804), Rubio must also be eligible to be President.

 

Per the 14th Amendment (1868), Mr. Rubio is a US Citizen, but to be eligible for President, per Art II, Sec 1, Clause 5 of the US Constitution, Mr. Rubio must be a "natural born citizen", meaning that he must have been born in the United States of two US Citizen parents who were US Citizens either by birth or through naturalization.

Got that, Mittens, Newt et. al. GOP political panderers and opportunists? Geez!

 

Mario Rubio, Marco's father, didn't petition to become a naturalized US Citizen and renounce his allegiance to Cuba until 11/05/1975, four years AFTER Marco's birth in May 1971. In short, Marco's parents were Legal Permanent Residents--not native born or naturalized US Citizens--when Marco Rubio was born. Drill that into your unreceptive brains and direct your legions of well-paid researchers to confirm this info with the National Archives (NADA) and the Constitution.

 

As Sirius XM's Andrew Wilkow would say, "this argument cannot be broken." Period.

 

I won't bother to again rehash the natural born citizenship issue here. For an in-depth legal constitutional analysis of the meaning and requirements of "natural born citizenship", interested readers are encourged to go to http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2009/09/natural-born- citizen-clause-requires.html, art2superpac.com, thenationalpatriot.com, federalistblog, US Justice Foundation, and a host of other authoritative sites.

 

Wouldn't it be an inspiring act of selfless public service were Sen. Rubio to publicly confirm that he is constitutionally ineligible to be VP or President?

 

Can you imagine the firestorm which would grip the DNC machine, and the abject horror which would pervade the White House whose current occupant is also constitutionally ineligible to serve as Chief Executive? (Obama's mother was a US Citizen, but his purported father, Obama Sr., was a Kenyan national, a British subject at the time of Barack's birth in 1961.)

 

If Mr. Rubio is the venerable and articulate defender of the Constitution he has appeared to be, then why has he been so studiously silent on this issue. Why has he and his staff avoided answering any questions from me and many other enquiring minds regarding the status of his constitutional eligibility.  His silence has been defeaning, and one can only reasonably speculate that Mr. Rubio is more concerned about his political ambitions than he is to the sacrosanctity of the Constitution.

 

Don't get me wrong. I love this guy. He's a breath of fresh air in that God-awful beltway. But, I have to wonder if his patriotism and his love of the Constitution stops at the water's edge.

 

Two wrongs don't make a right. The Constitution is not a toy to be conveniently interpreted or knowingly circumscribed merely to advance one's political or ideological agenda. In that, there is nothing honorable or redeeming.

I will try to obtain a reply on this matter from either Sen. Rubio or his Senatorial staff. Will keep you posted.

 

"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way." Thoams Jefferson

"Law and liberty cannot become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge." James Wilson (1790)

"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct." Thomas Jefferson

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

Hey, if Obama can be a presidential candidate so can anyone else.

[Jim Delaney]

Interesting. Let us know what you find out about Santorum's dad's natz papers.

Wouldn't it be nice if liberals spent as much time vetting THEIR candidates' eligibility as we do ours?

[Patty]

Jim. I just found it. But the article also says that Santorum hasn't release his naturalization papers for his father when they asked.

http://www.alipac.us/f19/santorum-not-natural-born-citizen-248389/

The interesting part of the article I posted below is that the courts were allowing individual citizens to file the challenges to George Romney unlike what they are doing and throwing the cases out. George Romney also said he would file the court case himelf but then he dropped out. If the case had been filed, we might have had a conclusive decision. And George Romney also shows that this issue has come up before in recent history without people being called crazy for questioning the issue.

[Jim Delaney]

Patty,

Jerome Corsi analyzed the "issue" of Mitt's citizenship. He concluded that because both his father and his mother were US Citizens at the time of Mitt's birth in Detroit, Mitt Romney IS a natural born citizen. I've scoured many authoritative sites and can find no evidence that Mitt is anything other than an NBC. Suggest you go to the WND and search for Corsi's analysis. It's the clearest and best I've read. And, as you know, Corsi is an equal opporunity analyst when it comes to this subject. 

[Patty]

It gets even more interesting. Evidently natural born citizen came up when Romney's father, George Romney, ran for president. He dropped out before it went to court.

Will the dems try to keep Romney off the ballot on the same argument if Romney gets the nomination? Maybe that is why they are pushing running against him.

This is just a blog but it goes through the history at the time George Romney was running for president.

George Romney's Natural Born Citizenship Problem: A Different Era

http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2012/01/george-romneys-natural-b...

People are starting to ask when and if George Romney was naturalized. This could get very interesting.

[gmiller]

More ammo:

http://www.art2superpac.com/issues.html