Politics is not often funny, but leave it to WorldNetDaily to supply some much-needed amusement. Editor Joseph Farah, perhaps bored with the fact that after all these years the Obama Birther movement really hasn’t gained much traction among the hordes of reasonable people, has now turned his attention to up-and-coming GOP star Marco Rubio. Farah’s claim that Rubio, too, is ineligible for the presidency (and thus the vice presidency) managed to startle the seasoned Sean Hannity (a man who has heard plenty of crackpot theories in his years on the air):
Host Sean Hannity said Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is more likely to share the ticket if Romney wins the GOP nomination. But Farah declared that Rubio would not be eligible.
HANNITY: I think that’s taken. It’s got to be Rubio. That’s my guess.
BOB BECKEL: If it’s not, somebody’s lost their mind.
FARAH: Rubio is not eligible.
HANNITY: Whoa, what do you mean, ‘Rubio’s not –
FARAH: He’ll lose 10 percent of the Republican vote because he is not a natural-born citizen. We’ve been through this with Obama now for four years.
HANNITY: I don’t believe that. I don’t think that’s going to work.
So, if Farah is right that ten percent of Republicans actually believe that a man who was born in Miami, Florida to Cuban refugees who had legal immigrated to the United States is not eligible for the presidency, what are they going to do? Vote for Obama? Vote for a third party? Sit it out? I would venture that the GOP does not need people that nutty in the party. And instead of trying to kiss their asses to placate them, they could better spend their time doing outreach to young voters. Or even Hispanics.
MORE: Allah calls this nonsense “the hottest new trend in Birtherism.”
I’m so glad to be keeping up with the trends, but I’m also glad I don’t have to be spending my time trying to apologize for them.
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2 responses to “Broadening the Birther base?”
What illiterates.
The 14th Amendment states, exactly: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the state wherein they reside.”
No reference to parents. Anyone born in the US is a citizen regardless of the status of their parents. The mother can be in a detention cell for illegals and any baby born to her in the cell is a citizen.
The is the whole point of “anchor babies.” Illegal, semi-literature immigrants know the Constitution, but Farah the Bimbo doesn’t.
The Supreme Court has also interpreted the 14th to include US territories. So, Barry Goldwater was a citizen, and so is Juan Williams.
And of course Obama. The Birthers would have to prove he was born in Kenya or something, which they can’t do.
I believe some other idiots at Worldnet Daily also believe that Santorum isn’t eligible to be president because his father was born in Italy.