I am waiting for Marco Rubio to very seriously tell one of the media wonks....
"You know, Reporter, that without a doubt, the dumbest question I have ever heard and I have very young children in my house."

Rubio is NOT eligible to be president. He is not a ´natural born citizen´. He´s a ´native born citizen´.

Read the Constitution.

It isn´t Big Sugar who´s trying to destroy "Azucar" Rubio - - he´s their favorite sock puppet.

And all the other Big Lobbies really love him - - because what´s good for Big Sugar is good for them too.

I`ll never figure out why politicians can never say `no comment` to meaningless questions.

Agree #4, but you should have added Republican/Conservative before politician.

Dear Quark. I have read the Constitution and the term "natural born citizen" is not defined anywhere in the document. Many legal scholars have defined "natural born citizen" to include anyone born on US soil. Please do some basic legal research before making categorical statements that cannot be backed up with legal points and authorities.

Here we go again.

It never ends.

You know this would go away if the responder observed -
"Scientists tell us the Earth is billions of years old. I do not dispute that.
And I cling to my faith, too."

Don´t say anything else. No need for more.
There is no basis by which to disprove the scientific claim.
So why bother to equivocate, to dodge?
Just get it over with.
Or you are toast.

Even Rush turned against Todd Akin in his home state of Missouri.
And the intelligentsia will never support a dunce.
Settle it and move on. It´s not debatable.

#6, a number of posters have provided all the links necessary to show #2s comment is correct. This was all done over the last few years because of Capt Zippy. The facts are available to those who do minimal due diligence. Either we insist on following the rule of the constitution - or we start following rule of men even more than we´ve been forced to; at that point all bets are off and the libtards won´t like the results.

I´m not bothered by Rubio´s answer to how old the earth is, but that he is a fan of the sewer mouth Eminem.

Ted in Michigan

The answer to that question is: "I have no idea how old the earth is. Scientists don´t agree on it either....how old do you think it is, A--hole Reporter?

The answer to the abortion question is this: "I am pro-life; I believe that life begins at conception. More than that I will not answer because in this year of 2016, it is settled law and legal for any woman who wants one. Next Question?" AND stop right there.

Why these conservative candidates allow themselves to be drawn into long philosophical discussions on abortion, I do not understand.

#2 is correct.

#2 and #8. I firmly agree that we should absolutely follow the Constitution. So show me in the Constitution where "natural born citizen" is defined. I can´t find it and neither can you because it´s not there. Therefore, the phrase is unfortunately still open to legal interpretation. As recently as 2009 the Congressional Research Service in an opinion submitted to Congress wrote "...it appears that the most logical inferences would indicate that the phrase "natural born Citizen" would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship "at birth" or "by birth". So please don´t try to dismiss the issue as settled, because legally it most certainly is not.

#´s 2 and 8 think the earth is flat.

Is this the best they can do?

Biggun -- Article 2, Section 1, clause 5 states : "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President"

#15. You are missing the point. Your quote is quite correct; however, the phrase"natural born Citizen" is cited but never DEFINED in the Constitution - which is the whole point of this discussion.

Thank you #15. I am so weary of people who don´t understand that the Presidency and only the Presidency requires a natural born citizen..native born will not suffice.
A child born to parents of other citizenship MAY have dual citizenship, and the Founding Fathers did not want the danger of a President with dual allegiance.
Of course, precedence has been set, with the son of an African sitting in the WH right now.

The concept of ´natural born citizen´ is defined clearly by Vattel and well understood by those who wrote and signed the Constitution. The purpose for the ´natural born´ appellation - which is applied only to the office of President - was to prevent foreign born parents, with loyalties that might lie elsewhere than with the U.S., from bearing and raising a child here who might become President and turn our nation over to those foreign loyalties. It makes a lot of sense.

The term has been explained by Congress:

´´every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.´´

~ Rep. John A. Bingham ~ (Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866))

And was not redefined by the fourteenth amendment. It has been redefined more recently in the same way that many other aspects of the Constitution have been ´adapted´ or ´evolved´.

The answer to the question is "I don´t have a clue. Next question."

#7 I just must agree. If Rubio doesn´t have sense to learn from watching conservative after conservative fall into the same stupid traps, then he won´t fare any better than Romney did in the end.

Not excited about Rubio. He seems like an another Obama type /- hey look at my biography, vote for me. I am really tired of identity politics. Unfortunately I think I´m vastly out numbered. Back to the garden!

No, the correct answer is "based on current scientific evidence, the earth is 5.4 billion years old ".

Thank you, ##6, 15, and 18 for your substantive comments. If Congressman Bingham´s interpretation in 1866 is the ace in the hole for the more restrictive definition, though, that doesn´t seem like much of a leg to stand on, especially in light of the present president´s precedent.

However, Ted in Mich. - I too am appalled by his taste in rappers. So - calling it a draw for now.

Rubio is supposedly a conservative, then why in the he** did he vote for NDAA. I really liked him until then.

Rubio proposed his own version of "the dream act."

He will never have my vote.

I am married to a once immigrant (legal) and now American citizen.

Rubio is giving her the bird.

Oops. Not 5.4 but 4.54 billion years old.

How about just saying, "I don´t know."

The previous posters have it all wrong. For the U.S. Supreme Court, the establishment and the liberal media, it is obvious that if it benefits the long march to socialist utopia, strict construction of the constitution is the way to go. Forget about a presidential run, Rubio, the powers that be will convince the freeloaders that tend to vote for exotic freaks like obama that you are foreign and evil incarnate if you ever attempt to run for president.

I have read the Constitution and it says nothing about needing to have parents who are citizens. A US birth certificate is all that is needed to get a passport, to vote, to get a social security number, to live and work here. Rubio is natural born under the clear language of the Constituion. Those who say otherwise are reading in words that are not there.