Blah. No more so than McCain and Romney. Or will you only vote for RINOs?

kim roy on February 4, 2013 at 3:27 PM

Dumb and Dumber did not make national spectacles of themselves. You think running a RINO gets bad results, I DARE you to run InSanitorum. The liberals will leave more footprints on the GOP’s backside than on a dance-hall floor after a formal ball.

@tommy71. Umm if Santorum wins the nomination then the R party has jumped the shark. I’ll be voting present against the moral nag.

Illinidiva on February 4, 2013 at 12:56 PM

Blah. No more so than McCain and Romney. Or will you only vote for RINOs?

Why are we even having this discussion? We still have four years of ObamaFun.

Republican strategist told Secrets that a win among Latino voters that big would assure Rubio the presidency, since he would also likely keep the regular GOP base.

This is snort worthy. Take the case of NC 7, a red district where a blue dog Dem Mike McIntyre beat Young Guns candidate and amnesty supporter David Rouzer.

Republicans sought to turn McIntyre, who is one of only 14 surviving members of the conservative House Blue Dog Coalition, into one of their top targets, drawing him into a southern North Carolina district with a deep GOP voter registration advantage.

Argh..like Obama, Rubio is “native born” but he isn’t “natural born.”

At this rate, all the newer immigrant citizens just can’t handle the difference, won’t tolerate that there’s a distinction.

Based on the 14th Amendment, both are “natural born.” Natural born means that you were born in America or that your parents were American citizens. All it means is that you were a U.S. citizen from birth.

The reason why this clause was in the Constitution is to keep the European powers from ruling the U.S. by proxy puppet. Think Napoleon the Third and Emperor Maximillian. Sort of outdated today. There are probably naturalized citizens who would be better Presidents than natural born ones. Bobby Jindal’s wife is more awesome than he is and should probably be the one in politics, but she was born in India and immigrated to America as a toddler.

You may not be understanding that Rubio has assumed Jeb Bush’s career, so to speak…thus, it’s not “ended” it’s just changed clothes.

Lourdes on February 4, 2013 at 2:22 PM

Umm.. Rubio is much better than Jeb for President and apparently they have broken up. Jeb hilariously thought that he was going to be President.

ThePrimordialOrderedPair on February 4, 2013 at 12:50 PM

Marco Rubio is a natural born citizen. You are anti-Constitution if you think he’s ineligible.

sauldalinsky on February 4, 2013 at 12:56 PM

Argh..like Obama, Rubio is “native born” but he isn’t “natural born.”

At this rate, all the newer immigrant citizens just can’t handle the difference, won’t tolerate that there’s a distinction.

Fine, then everyone’s natural born, regardless, one big happy family.

It’s the INTENT of the Constitution that matters. And all the adaptations rooted upon the 14th Amendment since it was written have been, at least many of them have been, contrary to the intent of that Amendment.

Castro goes to meet his judgement and Marco Rubio goes to Cuba, runs for President there and wins!

Jeb Bush inevitably returns to Mexico and runs for President there and wins! They can fix any law in Mexico, even elect a US Citizen as their Presedente.

And Obama can retire to the beaches of the hot climates and be the Baby O he knows he wants to be.

we should all be thankful that he may have ended both Charlie Crist and Jeb Bush’s careers.

Illinidiva on February 4, 2013 at 2:12 PM

You may not be understanding that Rubio has assumed Jeb Bush’s career, so to speak…thus, it’s not “ended” it’s just changed clothes.

Lourdes on February 4, 2013 at 2:02 PM

Considering that Jeb Bush has basically been sniping at Rubio, I think that those two may have broken up. It’s true that Jeb Bush used Rubio to tank Crist’s career for Jeb Bush’s own personal reasons. We should all be thankful for that. However, Jeb Bush also wanted to run for President in 2016. Rubio’s very obvious desire to live in the White House has really put the breaks on the Jeb Bush vanity run. So whatever you think of Rubio as a candidate, we should all be thankful that he may have ended both Charlie Crist and Jeb Bush’s careers.

Illinidiva on February 4, 2013 at 2:12 PM

Oh, families squabble all the time.

Remember Barbara Bush years ago dreamily speaking of Rubio as if he was one of her boys?

Rubio is a Jeb Bush mentee. They may argue, whatever, but it doesn’t alter that, and Rove is their add-on general helper (loss for words there but perhaps I make my point).

I think, on a personal level, that that is, indeed, the intent of the Founders in their requirement that one be “natural born” of the US as a citizen, that one be “of this nation” without one foot elsewhere.