If the poll is to be believed, only 42% of Republicans believe that the President of our country was born in the United States. It’s hard to believe that 58% of Republicans take seriously the conspiratorial mutterings of a handful of obvious nutcases. What the poll numbers suggest instead is hard-core sore loserdom.
Republicans have to know that birtherism is factually incorrect, ignorant, and idiotic. Ladies and gentlemen: please, get a grip on yourselves. If you don’t like the fact that Democrats are in power, engage in intelligent criticism. There’s a lot to criticize! But fruit-cake xenophobia will not defeat this President. It’s nonsense and it needs to stop.
This may be nothing more than acknowledging the obvious since both FactCheck.org and Politifact.com debunked the Birthers' claims a year ago. It says something about the current state of the GOP that such a post would be both necessary and controversial. The same poll also shows that Birtherism flourishes in the South which Kevin Drum of Mother Jones rightly calls "some serious crazy."
--Ballard Burgher
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