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It will be interesting to see where this whole Birfer insanity goes, how the groups align themselves.
Aside from the true believers, those who are dim enough that they honestly don't know for sure that Obama is an American, there are the pretenders, people who know it's BS and have to make a conscious decision; Go with the Birfers,and risk alienating the remaining sane Republicans and facing well-deserved ridicule , or admit that it's BS, and lose the passionate, riled up batshyte crazy wing of the party.
The Birfer issue is also being used to shift the scale, as they like to do. Just as the Dr. Weiners and Hannitys, the Coulters and Limbaughs provide a fringe-crazy perspective that allows the Brit Humes and other slightly less nutty commentators to be portrayed as "moderate", the Birfers allow some of the cons to appear fair & balanced by not buying into the most extreme propaganda of the right.
Then there are the false comparisons that come in so handy. I heard Michael Medved the other day commenting on the topic. He fancies himself sort of an intellectual among the wingnuts, and he publicly declared himself not a birther.
His opinion is that beating the dead horse of Obama's birthplace did more damage to the GOP than it helped them. Fair enough, I was with him at that point.
But like most wingnuts, he didn't know when to shut up. He continued that it was just the same as how talking about Bush & Cheney's C
crimes, and the Valerie Plame case, did damage to the Democrats.
See? It's a wash. If Medved can renounce a completely fictitious and bizarre bit of propaganda from the right, why can't the left give up on very real and valid issues that he thinks (or pretends to think) are crazy?
I especially liked the one guy who came right out and said he thinks that Obama was born in Hawaii, then went right into a spiel about how he's taking us down the road to socialism, etc. Sort of the same thing you describe Medved as doing.
It's nothing more than wingnut Tourette's. Even in that rare instance when distancing themselves from the true loon, they can't stop themselves from digging another hole.
Show the stupid thing so we can get past that and move on to the next conspiracy theory. Geeez!
I'd suggest that anybody who is still confused and concerned about Obama's citizenship take their own time and money and go off on an expedition to gather up all of these bits and pieces they think they need to help them catch up with normal people.
It gets pretty boring, the stupid and lazy expecting the entire world to dumb down everything to their level. The Birfers seem to be the same type who need a warning on their to-go coffee cup saying "Caution: may be hot!"