A Logical Exercise for Orly Taitz

[Jim Lane]

8. More precisely, they're divided on that point.

One faction within birtherism has decided, on the basis of no textual authority in the Constitution itself, that eligibility for the presidency is restricted to people who were born in the United States AND both of whose parents were citizens at the time. McCain and Cruz were born outside the United States. Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio were born in the United States to noncitizen parents. Some birthers hold all four of these men to be ineligible.

For the anti-Obama birthers, the advantage of this viewpoint is that they don't need to embrace the foolishness of the Kenyan birth theory. They can concede that Obama was born in Honolulu and still deny his eligibility because he had one noncitizen parent.

Nevertheless, I think the "mainstream" birthers (that's like getting "logical" and "Orly Taitz" into the same sentence) concede that their case depends on the theory of foreign birth. Their view is not inconsistent with the view that all four Republicans mentioned above are eligible.