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Bulletin: Romney is eligible to be president
Exclusive: Joseph Farah sets straight those clambering about Mitt's parents' status
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Joseph Farah, 'Between the Lines' Editorial
1/13/2012
Excerpt:
"No wonder people are so confused about the issues of the day.
I am literally deluged with emails from Americans insisting that Mitt Romney is not constitutionally eligible to be president.
It’s not true.
I say this not because I like Mitt Romney. I don’t. In fact,I have famously written, in a column titled, “The real most dangerous man in America,” that I would not vote for Mitt Romney if he were running against Satan himself! I still feel that way today. He’s a dangerous phony and pimp for the political establishment in America that doesn’t really believe in constitutionally limited government. I believe a Romney presidency will only solidify and institutionalize the radical prescriptions of Barack Obama’s administration. He won’t repeal any of it.
Are we clear enough on that?
Furthermore, while I remain a strong advocate of the position that Obama is not eligible for a variety of reasons, I have never made this assertion based on the fact that I detest everything for which he stands. That assertion is based on fact, on reality, on verifiable truth.
I would love to tell you Romney’s not constitutionally eligible to be president. I have no motivation whatsoever for hiding or burying such a claim if it had any validity. But it’s just not so.
The rumor mill, however, claims that because Romney’s father was born in Mexico, his son is not eligible.
That’s just hogwash.
The Constitution doesn’t require the parents of a presidential candidate to have been born in America. It simply requires that candidates be “natural born citizens” themselves. The scholarly interpretation of that requirement is that the parents of the candidate must have been citizens of the U.S. before the birth of the offspring.
This is the case with Mitt Romney’s birth. End of story.
If it were not true, this journalist would tell you so.
I have made the case that Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator and vice-presidential possibility whom I genuinely respect and admire, is not eligible for the job. The reason? His parents were not U.S. citizens when he was born. That’s the criteria. He doesn’t meet it.
I like Rubio – a lot.
I don’t like Romney – at all.
But Romney meets the constitutional test. Rubio does not."
View the complete article at:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/bulletin-...-be-president/
Exclusive: Joseph Farah sets straight those clambering about Mitt's parents' status
WND
Joseph Farah, 'Between the Lines' Editorial
1/13/2012
Excerpt:
"No wonder people are so confused about the issues of the day.
I am literally deluged with emails from Americans insisting that Mitt Romney is not constitutionally eligible to be president.
It’s not true.
I say this not because I like Mitt Romney. I don’t. In fact,I have famously written, in a column titled, “The real most dangerous man in America,” that I would not vote for Mitt Romney if he were running against Satan himself! I still feel that way today. He’s a dangerous phony and pimp for the political establishment in America that doesn’t really believe in constitutionally limited government. I believe a Romney presidency will only solidify and institutionalize the radical prescriptions of Barack Obama’s administration. He won’t repeal any of it.
Are we clear enough on that?
Furthermore, while I remain a strong advocate of the position that Obama is not eligible for a variety of reasons, I have never made this assertion based on the fact that I detest everything for which he stands. That assertion is based on fact, on reality, on verifiable truth.
I would love to tell you Romney’s not constitutionally eligible to be president. I have no motivation whatsoever for hiding or burying such a claim if it had any validity. But it’s just not so.
The rumor mill, however, claims that because Romney’s father was born in Mexico, his son is not eligible.
That’s just hogwash.
The Constitution doesn’t require the parents of a presidential candidate to have been born in America. It simply requires that candidates be “natural born citizens” themselves. The scholarly interpretation of that requirement is that the parents of the candidate must have been citizens of the U.S. before the birth of the offspring.
This is the case with Mitt Romney’s birth. End of story.
If it were not true, this journalist would tell you so.
I have made the case that Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator and vice-presidential possibility whom I genuinely respect and admire, is not eligible for the job. The reason? His parents were not U.S. citizens when he was born. That’s the criteria. He doesn’t meet it.
I like Rubio – a lot.
I don’t like Romney – at all.
But Romney meets the constitutional test. Rubio does not."
View the complete article at:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/bulletin-...-be-president/
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