El Rushbo, raging with his usual apoplectic indignation, played a sound bite from that day's “CBS Morning Show" interview with Bob Scheiffer, former host of “Face The Nation”. During the interview Mr. Schieffer made the prediction that if none of the three Republican presidential candidates,
Nor would the delegates be bound to cast their votes only for one of the three candidates still in the presidential race; they could vote for someone who wasn’t even running for president.
So they could all get together and vote for
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
I’m proud to say I meet all of the legal requirements to be President, unlike Ted Cruz, who, not being a natural born citizen, technically does not meet the that legal requirement but for some reason gets to run for President anyway. Maybe the Constitution is kind of like The Bible: it can mean whatever you want it to mean. So “Thou Shalt Not Kill” need not apply to your enemies, whom you’re also supposed to love except in the cases where it doesn’t apply, and “No Person except a natural born Citizen shall be eligible to the Office of the President" only applies to Barak Obama , even though he is a natural born citizen, but not to Ted Cruz, who isn’t.
Get it?
Me neither but never mind.
The point is, whoever drafted that weird delegate voting rule must have been clairvoyant, looking into some crystal ball, seeing this in the future,