Posted by
wingnut on Monday, November 21, 2011 1:59:41 AM
I finally got around to starting Jerome Corsi's book, Where's the Birth Certificate?, and was stunned to learn something on page 32. Corsi was in the midst of discussing other presidential contenders who had had questionable eligibility for that office under the "Natural-born Citizen" clause of Article 2, Section 1 of The Constitution. He discussed the Chester A. Arthur controversy and then listed four other men who had evoked the eligibilty question. The one that jumped out to me was -- George Romney. How many of us know that the former Governor of Michigan was born on July 8, 1907 -- IN MEXICO ? He was born in a small Mormon colony in the State of Chihuahua after the group fled persecution in the USA. His parents moved to southern California in 1912 because of the outbreak of revolution in Mexico in 1910. So, George came to America at age five. The question that immediately popped into my mind was, "as a Mexican citizen and new resident in the U.S., DID GEORGE ROMNEY EVER GO THROUGH THE NATURALIZATION PROCESS TO BECOME AN AMERICAN CITIZEN? If he never did, then his son Mitt, born in 1947 (in the USA) cannot run for President because BOTH of his parents must be U.S. citizens for that to be possible. I went to the Wikipedia article on "George Romney" to find out and found NO MENTION of his ever becoming a naturalized citizen! He ran for the Republican nomination for President in 1968, but that went to Richard Nixon. Romney died in 1995. I have no other books or articles on Governor Romney at this time and suggest that someone needs to do the necessary research on this issue. Records should exist with the INS if George Romney did go through the process. If he never did, then that means that the State of Michigan had a man as Governor who was not even a citizen of the USA! We may find ourselves in a repeat of the 2008 situation where BOTH candidates of the two major parties will be ineligible for the office they seek!
--Raymond P. Curtis, Houston, TX,
Monday, November 21, 2011