You have to love the right wing even when proved categorically wrong they cannot just hold up their hands and say"my bad".
Now Republicans know that the birther movement is bad news for their hopes in 2012 and since they encouraged teh crazy for so long it cannot be their fault.
Now who could be to blame.....hmmmm....got it...and it's a winner!
President Obama!
Malkin: "It Was To The Democrats And ... White House's Great Advantage To Allow This Birther Circus To Play Out As Long As It Did."
RedState: "He Could Have Stopped The Nonsense At Any Time. He Didn't Because It Served His Purposes."
Rove: "He Had The Ability To Release It Last Year And End The Issue, But He Wanted To Play Rope-A-Dope With Republicans."
Fox's Fred Barnes: "Now We Know Who Kept" The Birther Issue "Alive -- It Was President Obama."
Fox's Tantaros: Obama "Had The Opportunity To Silence Suspicion" In 2008.
NRO's Goldberg Suggests Obama Delayed Release To Cast His Opponents "As Paranoid Nuts."
A yeah facing everything but the reality of the last couple of years.
President Obama is the first President to have been questioned along these lines.
President Obama is the first person of color to be elected President.
Yes many of the Republican Base are paranoid nuts, get used to it.
However you may be missing something else, I wonder what that could be?
Oh I know...how about much of your base being racist?
Where to from here?
I suppose now this has all be cleared up amicably and the President is in actual fact a natural born American we can move on? Do you really think it was just about a birth certificate? Do you really think that your paranoid base will see the light of reason and accept that a person of color can win the Presidency?
Dream on.
The craziest are still claiming its a fake, and they would have done so even if he had released it two years ago.
You fail also to notice how many of your congressional representatives either played along or were birthers themselves, they are whom you should aim your faux wrath.
You do know it is all not going to end here?
Your crazy base will now concentrate on the Obama is a secret Muslim meme. You cannot say President Obama has hid his overt Christianity now can you?
They are also questioning his education and did he receive any preferential treatment along the way because after all as a person of color he cannot be that intelligent...can he?
The Republicans have played the Southern Strategy for so long they pretend not to know what this in fact means:
In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to the late-20th century Republican Party strategy of winning elections in Southern states by exploiting anti-African American racism among Southern white voters and appealing to states' rights. Though the "Solid South" had been a longtime Democratic Party stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery prior to the American Civil War and segregation for a century thereafter, many Southern Democrats were alienated from the party following the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and desegregation.
Oh but that is so over they will cry
Yeah really
The Birther movement was an extension of this policy whether it was deliberately or subconsciously.
I'll tell you what mainstream republicans its time you cleaned your own house before blaming other people for your own base. You have in fact appealed to the white supremacists and christian fundamentalists for decades, you cannot just turn around and blame someone else for your own deliberate strategy.
In the last few months you have also played the misogyny card hidden behind the moral banner of "pro-life" whereas in fact you are anti women's rights, your bigotry is plain for all to see. Rather than tackling the real issues facing our nation you have wrapped yourself in moral outrage and failed to create one job.
When State Governors have spoken about secession and how slavery was not really that bad after all you remained silent. When the confederate flag is raised you remain silent. After all you have a "black friend" and that covers it all..
When you scream socialism at every turn and wail that liberals are in fact totalitarians that want to kill grandma somehow you bear no responsibility when your paranoid base overreact? When Democrats end up being shot this was none of your affair
When your talking head scream about "baby killers" you act so surprised when one is murdered in cold blood? You deny any link whatsoever.
When you talk about the LGBT community as a pack of sexual deviants, child molesters, and the next best thing to bestiality you act surprised when we are attacked. You work ceaselessly to take our rights away and yet will pretend to be outraged when it goes further than that.
The Republican Party is hostage to these racist and religious loons and nobody else can be blamed but themselves, play with fire your are going to end up toast.
So don't tell me that the reason your party is full of racial and religious intolerance is the fault of President Obama...
You made your own bed now lie in it.