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Subscribe to RSSPolitical Wire notes: “Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra (R) said he'd like to ‘create a federal office in Washington that would verify that presidential candidates meet the minimum requirements to hold the office,’ the Detroit Free Press reports. Said Hoekstra: ‘This is not brain surgery. It should be an FBI person, maybe a CIA person. If you want to run for president, you've got to go with the proper documentation and get it certified that you meet the qualifications to be the President of the United States.’”
In 1967 questions were raised about George Romney’s eligibility since he was born in Mexico. Romney said in a statement at the time: "I am a natural born citizen. My parents were American citizens. I was a citizen at birth.”
Reuters: “At one point, the Congressional Research Service - an arm of the Library of Congress that is supposed to provide authoritative but impartial research for elected members - advised that its analysts agreed with George Romney, according to a congressional source. In a paper in November aimed at clarifying presidential eligibility, the Congressional Research Service declared that the practical, legal meaning of ‘natural born citizen’ would ‘most likely include’ not only anyone born on U.S. soil but anyone born overseas of at least one parent who was a U.S. citizen.”
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Hoekstra? Don't believe this 'Hoax-Extra'
full of BS - bad sociology
the Teabaggers have destroyed the GOP, as proved by the fact that supposed mainstream representatives like Hoekstra, or Coffman in Colorado, and on and on can say the kind of tinfoil hat crazy talk they say -- These guys along with Michele Bachmann and a lot of RWNJs have got to go. We need a Republican Party that is actually a functioning (governing not protesting) credible Party.
So here's the point Birthers. If at least one of George Romney's parents had not been a US citizen before they moved to Mexico, that would mean Mitt Romney would have a foreign-born father (i.e., Kenya versus Mexico). President Obama's mother was a US citizen too, so even if the president had been born in a foreign country per The Donald (AKA bloviating ignoramus) most recent BS, the president would still be a natural-born citizen. The irony is President Obama is more of a citizen than George Romney or John McCain because his mother was a citizen AND he was born in the US in the state of Hawaii. The Birther crap is racism and nothing else.
Why Romney insists on "palling around" with The Donald, who not only taints his credibility in regard to Birther conspiracy, but further reinforces the 1% arsehole persona that The Donald is, is beyond any rational thinking person. But if Romney persists with dog whistles like this, he will have to face the music about a lot of questionable things including his religion.
We just learned the only time Romney stood up for something in his entire life was to protest in favor of the draft. That's right, he supported sending his classmates to their possible death knowing that he would receive a deferment for serving on a mission for his church. Romney -- he's not in it for you.
This is the tea people Koch republicans way of making government smaller. they do it by making government bigger. Kind of like their trickle down economics. If you make it bigger it will be smaller. OK. The really sad thing about this warped logic is, there's a lot of people that believe it.
Yea, the government has not grown at all under Obama! Funniest post on the board! You are a total crack up.
I vote only for candidates left (far) of the two corporate parties so I would vote neither for Brown nor Warren, but if anyone who can claim and prove even 1/1,000,000 Native-American ancestry deserves much more than just having some half-baked affirmative action program in their corner. Both candidates live in Massachusetts; a Native-American name in a country that has condemned its native citizens to little more than concentration camps.