Okay, let's call a "Mulligan" on the last election and say that we made an error allowing a non-natural born citizen to be POTUS. Ooops! But then we tell the Dems they need to run someone else the second time around.

Byron disappoints me here. In the Constitutional context "natural" means "no qualifiers" or "without question". To be "natural" born is to not have to explain your citizenship bone fides in any way. That's why it's called "natural". • Born on US soil to 2 US citizens = obviously a citizen ("natural born") • Born on US soil to 1 US cit. = less obvious but definitely "native born" • Born on US soil to non-US cits. = less obvious still but "native born" • Born on NON-US soil to 2 US cits. = need to be "naturalized". • Born on NON-US soil to 1 US cit. = need to be "naturalized". • Born on NON-US soil to NON-cit. = MUST be "naturalized". If there is any kind of qualifier the person is obviously not "natural".

What amazes me with posts like MAC159's is the total lack of understanding of the plain meaning of the English language. "Natural born" means that a person is OBVIOUSLY fully qualified to be president without having to explain any special dispensation. That is, "naturally" he is qualified. That is, I don't have to look up in some law or book whether BOTH parents have to be citizens, or whether, if both parents ARE citizens if being born in Italy to said parents still qualifies the person to be "natural, etc.

Bink, xj wants you to follow along on his OT posts. He's a troll. Best to ignore yet marvel at what room temp IQs produce.

How about a different approach to recording. Taxpayers should demand that all classrooms have a web cam which is streaming live to a website for that districts classrooms. Anybody could record these streams and put them up on YouTube if they thought it would be warranted. In this way, phones can be banned but the teacher (and students) still know that their "exploits" in the classroom are being watched.

The Ph.Ds in gender and race studies get professorships at major liberal universities where they offer up some of the creepiest and useless classroom drivel for yet another generation of students who won't become successful enough for their government to turn their fellow Americans against them.

Why do you care unless you are a totalitarian? IT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS HOW MUCH IT COSTS NIKE TO MAKE A PAIR OF SNEAKERS! Sheesh. Fascists (used technically and correctly in this case) like longball make me crazy. They want to use the threat of force to make other people conform to their world view. This level of hate and sheer stupidity is one of the primary reasons the world as a whole is facing the dire economic situation it is. People like longball think it is perfectly fine to put a literal gun to the head of other people to force them into their Orwellian mold. The irony is, if you look at where this leads (c.f. the French Revolution) the longballs of the world eventually meet their own guillotine.

So, we have 4 positions: 1. Mitt because I'm in love with him (Hewitt position). 2. Mitt because he's less liberal than Obama. 3. Vote 3rd party/write-in because Mitt is no different than Obama. 4. No one because to vote for Mitt emboldens the establishment to run ever more liberal Republicans. Of these, #1 and #4 make sense (IMHO). #2 is a tactical vote but is actually is worse than a vote for Obama. #3 is like #4. #4 is a strategic vote that ultimately has a better chance of getting us back to our conservative roots in 2016. GOP losses in '06 gave us wins in '10. That's history. A Mitt loss in '12 will more likely produce a conservative in '16. A Mitt win in '12 will give us a Communist Dem in '16 and no GOP wins ever again.

The Constitution does not state a definition of "conservative" so we have no idea of what you are talking about. Santorum is a mainstream conservative and actually, if you look at Republicans serving in Blue states, Santorum is unusual in how he was able to stay well to the right. Meanwhile, the other three candidates have voted and governed to the left of their constituencies. Sorry anti-neo, but DeMint nor Palin are running so we have to vote for the most conservative candidate. At this point, that person is clearly and obviously Santorum.

If Santorum gets the nomination, he can easily beat Obama. If he doesn't get the nomination, it will be Ron Paul supporters who have guaranteed Obama's re-election.