Since the teaturd rump running the Republican Party has never fully accepted the 14th amendment, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Trump and the other pureblood US Americans running for the nomination (like Carson) are coming out against birthright citizenship. This puts Cruz, Jindal, Rubio and even Santorum in a tough spot, because their purity of essence is shadowed by some doubt or other: Cruz’ no doubt painful and prolonged birth occurred in Canada to a US mom and foreign dad, Jindal’s first incoherent burbles were in the US when this anchor baby secured his Indian parents’ place in the fatherland, Marco Rubio’s first soft, seductive mews’ were the cries of an anchor baby for his Cuban parents, and icky Ricky uttered his first of many annoying mouth noises on US soil at a time when his pop was not a 100% Prime USDA Grade A citizen.
Aside from the obvious irony, what’s laughable is the horseshit standards by which the birthers judge these guys, because of course they have to explain away the possibility that any of them aren’t eligible for the Presidency. Here’s a taste of the justification for Jindal:
So the question comes up about Bobby Jindal’s parents. Both of them were in the United States on student visas. To me the real question is does the candidate have any divided allegiance. So if Jindal’s parents remained steadfastly identifying as Indians and he steadfastly identified as an Indian, even though he was born in the United States and was a citizen, he would not be eligible. Legitimately, he would not be eligible to be President. But given the fact that he changed his name after a character in “The Brady Bunch” — as American as it gets — I don’t think there’s any question in any of those candidates that there’s any dual allegiance.
If only Obama had changed his name to “Greg”, “Peter” or “Bobby”, we’d have avoided years of turmoil over his citizenship.
Update: Piyush just chucked out a stone from his glass house:
We need to end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants.
— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) August 17, 2015
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