Brian Schweitzer continues to be awesome

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

That was a stupid thing of Schweitzer to say.  Romney can't control where his father was born.  

The Governor of Montana has gone down a point or two in my book.

In the context of the question Schweitzer was asked, what if Romney starts to pretend he is a Hispanic on the basis of his ancestors sojourn in Mexico, then pointing out why they were there would be fair game.  Not that there is any evidence that the Romney camp will be so dense as to make such a foolish claim.

However, Schwitzer could and should have been more subtle.  Here's a better way to answer that absurd hypothetical.

"Governor Romney isn't really a Hispanic.  His great-grandfather had decided he didn't love the United States any more, so he left it for Mexico.  His grandfather then brought his family back to the United States because he didn't love Mexico any more."

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I still can't get over the fact that in 68 Romney's dad ran for President but he was born in a polygamous commune in Mexico and no one made a deal. lol

People cared more about his opposition to Vietnam (before it was cool to do so). Plus, he didn't really trumpet his faith like candidates do today. I doubt most people knew that George Romney was a Mormon born in Mexico (to two US citizens, by the way).

Times were different in 1968.  That there were still Mormon polygamous sects was not widely know, so polygamy was seen as something of the past.  Plus not only were the evangelicals less active politically, they weren't clustered in one party as they are today.  However there were some who argued that George was not a natural-born citizen because of the circumstances of his birth.  His parents were US citizens, but not US residents at the time of his birth.  George was not subject to the jurisdiction of the US when born, so you could argue that when he was born he did not meet the 14th Amendment definition of citizen, and hence was a naturalized citizen instead of a natural-born citizen.