You may have already taken note of the gay-hating, immigrant-bashing, ignorance-promoting, climate change-denying, anti-choice, scofflaw attorney general of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli II. Well, here's another of his finest moments.
Question: What can we do about Obama and the birth certificate thing?
Cuccinelli: It will get tested in my view when someone... when he signs a law, and someone is convicted of violating it and one of their defenses will be it is not a law because someone qualified to be President didn’t sign it.
Q: Is that something you can do as Attorney General? Can you do that or something?
Cuccinelli: Well, only if there is a conflict where we are suing the federal government for a law they’ve passed. So it’s possible.
Q: Because we are talking about the possibility that he was not born in America.
Cuccinelli: Right. But at the same time under Rule 11, Federal Rule 11, we gotta have proof of it.
Q: How can we get proof?
Cuccinelli: Well... that’s a good question. Not one I’ve thought a lot about because it hasn’t been part of my campaign. Someone is going to have to come forward with nailed down testimony that he was born in place B, wherever that is. You know, the speculation is Kenya. And that doesn’t seem beyond the realm of possibility.
When you have a party that embraces deniers, deathers and tenthers, why be surprised when a top elected official turns out to be a birther? The wackiest politicians are on the rise. Not only does Cuccinelli question the President's citizenship, he'd apparently be willing to spend state tax money to make Washington spend federal tax money to prove otherwise.
Perhaps the Standup Comedians Association will sue this joke-of-a-people's-representative for operating without a license. Or perhaps it's in the "realm of possibility" that the voters of Virginia will wise up about Cuccinelli at the next election.
P.S. Cuccinelli offers a not-terribly-believable statement denying he's a birther.
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h/t to Not Larry Sabato. Also, see DanK's diary.