GOP Is Embarrassed By The Birthers
The GOP is now trying to stuff the birther genie back into the bottle. Too bad they didn’t listen to us, who have been warning them for 2 years (since the days of Crazy Eileen) that encouraging the crazy of the base would come back to bite them in the rear.
The renewed effort to tamp down birtherism underscores a view held by many establishment Republicans that the conspiracy theorists make up a small subset of the party base and risk turning off swing voters more interested in jobs and economic concerns.
The new chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, Ryan Call, said Tuesday that “getting distracted” with questions about Obama’s birth certificate “does a great disservice to the real challenges that our country faces.”
Some strategists say the issue helps Democrats paint the GOP as extreme or fringe.
Gee, too bad. The Washington Post even steps its toe into acknowledging that persistent birtherism may be related the racism.
The Rev. Al Sharpton said he views Brewer’s veto as a concession that the birther movement has backfired on Republicans.
“What they meant as a negative ended up being a huge miscalculation because it rallied the very elements in society — from women to blacks to Latinos — who have always had to fight for recognition as equal citizens,” he said in an interview. “A lot of people see it as racism. Even when you achieve what people felt was unachievable, you still have to prove you are qualified. That’s how a lot of us read it.”
Republicans, these stories are going to get more and more prevalent the longer this birther nonsense goes on. There’s nothing else to discuss, it’s been repeatedly debunked. I understand why the GOP wants to put the hammer down, the problem is it’s too little, too late.
Tags: Birthers, GOP Bamboozlement
They own this, and there’s no running away.
In a shocking finding, more than half of GOP primary voters believe President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, according to a new poll.
Rev. Al makes a great point. The lunacy is so persistent because it is rooted in the racist DNA of the GOP.
and in a related shocking finding, more than half of Democratic primary voters believe that President George W Bush was not born with a brain, according to a new poll.
OK, perhaps I made that up.
Here’s the key:
Birtherism is being driven by the mailing lists and propaganda networks of the kookiest candidates (tough call, I know): Huck, Palin, Newt. And in Huck’s case the birther message is probably being amplified by evangelical networks.
The Republican Establishment wants its country back.
The irony is that Republican economic theories are AS WHACKED OUT, and based on pure fantasy as birtherism.
But the Republican deficit reduction plan is brave and bold. I know this because the TV kept telling me so. How long until birtherism is described as brave and bold?
But the Republican deficit reduction plan is brave and bold. I know this because the TV kept telling me so.
Laugh while you still can. Soon we will be calling it the “Obama deficit reduction plan.”
Think not? It happened to the Republican individual mandate, which is now Obamacare. It happened to the Bush tax cuts for the rich, which are now the Obama tax cuts for the rich.
George Stephanopolis got Michele Bachmann to admit that the Birth Certificate issue is over when he presented her with the real deal. She gets into the “I take him at his word” locution (which effectively sidesteps the official document), but she was cornered on this thing but good,