New York Times at it again: Questions McCain's Eligability because of birthplace

Hot off the press from the NYT is an article questioning whether were McCain is born will have any impact on his bid at the presidency. Legal issues aside, this is a perfect example of the attacks that are going to be coming at McCain fast and furiously as the election cycle unfolds. The original article can be viewed here.

Mr. McCain’s likely nomination as the Republican candidate for president and the happenstance of his birth in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 are reviving a musty debate that has surfaced periodically since the founders first set quill to parchment and declared that only a “natural-born citizen” can hold the nation’s highest office.

Almost since those words were written in 1787 with scant explanation, their precise meaning has been the stuff of confusion, law school review articles, whisper campaigns and civics class debates over whether only those delivered on American soil can be truly natural born. To date, no American to take the presidential oath has had an official birthplace outside the 50 states.

“There are powerful arguments that Senator McCain or anyone else in this position is constitutionally qualified, but there is certainly no precedent,” said Sarah H. Duggin, an associate professor of law at Catholic University who has studied the issue extensively. “It is not a slam-dunk situation.”

Mr. McCain was born on a military installation in the Canal Zone, where his mother and father, a Navy officer, were stationed. His campaign advisers say they are comfortable that Mr. McCain meets the requirement and note that the question was researched for his first presidential bid in 1999 and reviewed again this time around.

So what do I say? Well, for one thing, I've never been a McCain supporter anyway, so this doesn't really bother me. I could say, "I told you not to support him!" I could say, ok, let's nominate a true conservative with a true vision for the country. Of course the liberal left is going to do everything in their power to take down McCain now that he is the "presumptive" nominee for the republican party. They of course want someone who is beholden to them and they will produce more and more doubts in the minds of the American public until he is completely destroyed. For us though, these stories are coming out just in time... after all, we don't really want McCain anyway do we? We know that he hasn't got a chance against Barack Obama in November and a lot of conservatives resolutely refuse to support him. So for once I commend the NYT on their work and ask them to continue to destroy John McCain for us.