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Jim Lane

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32. What makes it at least marginally non-dumb.

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 03:26 PM

Apr 2015

You're absolutely right that there's no "natural-born citizen" requirement for the Senate.

But there IS a requirement that one be a citizen. A naturalized citizen is eligible, but I strongly doubt that Rubio ever went through a naturalization proceeding. On the conspiracy theory that he wasn't born in the US but is falsely claiming such birth to get citizenship, he wouldn't naturalize because that would expose the fraud.

So, absent naturalization, he wasn't eligible to run for the Senate or even to register to vote unless he really was born here. I think it possible that, at some point, some political opponent (a Democratic Party official or some local freelance crank who hates Hispanics) looked into the question, trying for the one-in-a-million shot that he was born in Cuba or Kenya or wherever. (Of course, Rubio's mother leaving Miami to go to Castro-era Cuba in 1971 to give birth seems, if anything, even more unlikely than Obama's mother leaving Honolulu to go to Kenya.)

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Marco Rubio.....citizen question [View all] JPK Apr 2015 OP

do you really think that he hasn't been vetted many times by the Dems? He has been in DrDan Apr 2015 #1

thank you. Preserve us from birthers of any stripe. cali Apr 2015 #2

he's only held state office in the past His senate seat is his first nationaly. notadmblnd Apr 2015 #4

so in his Senate race, the Dems did not vet his credentials and claims? Do you really believe that DrDan Apr 2015 #8

First, yes, it is a dumb question jberryhill Apr 2015 #12

the point is - he was thoroughly vetted by the Dems DrDan Apr 2015 #13

Whatever "thoroughly vetted" might mean... jberryhill Apr 2015 #15

we need no birthers here . . . it makes us simply look silly DrDan Apr 2015 #22

What makes it at least marginally non-dumb. Jim Lane Apr 2015 #32

to be a Senator it is not required for one to be a natural born citizen. notadmblnd Apr 2015 #24

I realize that. Do you really believe that, when running for the U.S. Senate, DrDan Apr 2015 #27

sure, why couldn't he? notadmblnd Apr 2015 #28

slaphead DrDan Apr 2015 #29

whatever- notadmblnd Apr 2015 #30

Let's not go the dumbass birther route, shall we? Adrahil Apr 2015 #3

I don't think asking about his birth notadmblnd Apr 2015 #5

Yeah, it is. It's just as stupid as the Obama birthers. Rubio was born in Miami cali Apr 2015 #6

It was crap with Obama too but that didn't stop them treestar Apr 2015 #16

+1. Where is Cruz' Mother, hidden in a closet? Father Raphael Sr. became a naturalized citizen appalachiablue Apr 2015 #17

And wherever he went to college, does he have witnesses? treestar Apr 2015 #20

Cruz' family has some funky missing pieces, seriously. I just want to know- appalachiablue Apr 2015 #21

I prefer not to sink to their vile level. cali Apr 2015 #19

That can be respected so long as the same treestar Apr 2015 #23

I don't think Dems fight dirty enough notadmblnd Apr 2015 #31

Fighting dirty is a wholly different concept than fighting stupidly and blindly... LanternWaste Apr 2015 #33

We know it didn't work on Obama and he won anyway treestar Apr 2015 #34

it may be crap, but it is still a valid question notadmblnd Apr 2015 #25

I think it is. Adrahil Apr 2015 #7

sure is at this point in their political careers . . . all-birther DrDan Apr 2015 #9

I'm just asking a simple question. JPK Apr 2015 #10

Unlike Ted Cruz, Rubio is a Natural Born Citizen eligible to run for President. Capt. Obvious Apr 2015 #11

Let's start those rumors and keep them going. treestar Apr 2015 #14

That part I agree with. 2naSalit Apr 2015 #18

So his dad was out of the country on the day he was born? KamaAina Apr 2015 #26