Wingnut Birthers Turn on Their Own 0
Rising star of the right, Florida Senator Mario Rubio, is being attacked by birthers. Some of them are reasoning that, since his parents were Cuban refugees and not citizens, he is not qualified for office, though he is a natural-born United States citizen.
Daniel Ruth reports:
It seems pretty clear that since young Marco Rubio came into this world in Florida and since he was born quite naturally, he is a United States citizen with all of the attendant rights and privileges, including someday rising to the White House if that is what fate has in store for him.
The birthers have hung their pelts on the rather tenuous writings of a relatively obscure 18th century Swiss philosopher, Emer de Vattell, whose 1758 book, The Law of Nations, argued “natural born citizens” should mean only the children born of parents who were already citizens of that nation.
These (and let’s whisper this very quietly — crazy) people are attempting to argue who should and who shouldn’t qualify to become president based on the scribblings of a Swiss guy, writing in French, more than a decade before the start of the American Revolution. That would appear to be about as intellectually honest as a Republican presidential debate.
There is a certain pleasure in watching the crazies attack their own.
That does not render them less crazy.
