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The birthers have now started to eat their own:
Birthers Say These 4 GOP Candidates May Be Ineligible To Be President
Go to the TPM link and read the telephone interview....
The birthers are raving so much, some of them are even going after Rick Santorum, who, if you will remember, already ran for President in 2012 and yet, not one single birther of name said anything about him back then...
Discuss: will the birthers devour these four Republicans?
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Birthers Say These 4 GOP Candidates May Be Ineligible To Be President
In a column published last week on the conspiracy theory website WND, author Jack Cashill noted that questions had been raised about whether four of the 17 candidates in the GOP field were really "natural born citizens" and therefore eligible to run for President.
Ted Cruz has already dealt with those questions publicly -- the Canadian-born senator from Texas renounced his citizenship with that country last summer in anticipation of a 2016 bid -- but Cashill also listed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) among those who were suspect.
He even mentioned that Jindal's preferring to go by the name Bobby -- inspired by "The Brady Bunch" -- instead of his given name, Piyush, would make for interesting evidence in a court case focused on his eligibility to run for commander-in-chief.
But who, exactly, was suspicious of these candidates? On what grounds could these four politicians' eligibility to be President be challenged? And why was Santorum, whose background as an Italian-American doesn't get mentioned nearly as frequently as Rubio's Cuban heritage or Jindal's Indian heritage, suspect?
TPM called up Cashill to find out...
Go to the TPM link and read the telephone interview....
The birthers are raving so much, some of them are even going after Rick Santorum, who, if you will remember, already ran for President in 2012 and yet, not one single birther of name said anything about him back then...
Discuss: will the birthers devour these four Republicans?
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