Mike Huckabee offers advice to Mitt Romney concerning his unreleased tax returns.

Let him [Romney] make this challenge: “I’ll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any loans as a foreign student. When he releases that, talk to me about my tax returns.”

A foreign student? For all his supposed good ol’ boy charm and much-touted Christian values, Huckabee is just another run-of-the-mill, right-wing, lying jackass spewing the same birther-crap that’s been refuted time and time again.

And what exactly does the President’s college transcripts have to do with Romney releasing his tax returns?  Nothing.

Bill Maher had a great comment last night about how Romney and his cohorts on the right have created a fictional person to do battle with.  They refer to this opponent as Barack Obama but, in truth, bears no resemblance to the actual person.  Their President Obama is a Marxist who cannot put two thoughts together without the help of a teleprompter.  Their Obama is a tax-raising, money-spending, freedom-hating, Constitution-abusing, power-hungry simpleton who goes around the world apologizing for the U.S.

Any resemblance between the right’s Obama and the one who sits in the White House is nonexistent.

And the further to the right one goes on the political spectrum, the more bizarre the accusations.  Obama is then attributed with siding with the terrorists, is of the Muslim religion and in all likelihood was born in Kenya.  Hello, Orly Taitz and Mike Huckabee.

The right has gone completely mad.  There’s no other rational explanation.

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They don’t call Orly Taitz the crazy Republican (<– redundancy?) without reason.
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There you have it, a perfect example of the right-wing fringe in action which has become less fringe and more mainstream with each passing day . And should anyone make the claim that Taitz is more exception than rule, than may I suggest that either: a) you have not been paying attention to the endless stream of hysteria emerging from the right over the last three years or b) over-exposure to Fox has undoubtedly fried one brain cell too many.

The age of teabagging/birtherism/lunacy/batshit crazy is fully upon us and all it took was the simple act of voting in a black liberal to the White House.
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OK. So the President releases his long form birth certificate and birtherism is dealt a fatal blow as the 67% of Republicans who were unsure of Obama’s place of birth let out a collective sigh of relief and finally come to accept this man as their President. Right? Wrong. It’s not over and it’ll never be over for as long as this president’s skin color continues to cast a non-white hue.

The bigots will never admit it but birtherism has its roots in racism and no document will take away the true birther’s view that this president is illegitimate.  Here’s Joseph Farah of WorldNutDaily on the issue:

“The certificate of live birth is an absolutely vital foundation for determining constitutional eligibility of any president. We look forward to reviewing it like so many other Americans do at this late date. But it is important to remember there are still dozens of other questions concerning this question of eligibility that need to be resolved to assure what has become a very skeptical public concerning Barack Obama’s parentage, his adoption, his citizenship status throughout his life and why he continues to cultivate a culture of secrecy around his life.”

As I said, nothing has changed. For racists, the President is a ni**er and doubly so when his middle name is Hussein. And as anyone who has ever attempted to debate a bigot can confirm, there is nothing that can possibly change a dull little mind and minds don’t come any duller than those of birthers.

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I’m not completely certain what the deal is with Donald Trump these days.  Is his birther posturing of late simply an act or is the man a total nutcase? Probably a bit of both. In any case, he’s now gotten into a verbal battle with New York Time’s columnist, Gail Collins, who wrote a stinging critical piece on Trump’s presidential aspirations.

Donald Trump has run faux campaigns for president before, flirting with the Democrats and independents. This time, he’s playing a conservative Republican. By 2016, he’ll probably be talking about his affinity for the Alaskan Independence Party or the Whigs.

Trump took exception to the criticism and especially to being referred to as a birther – a term which he feels is derogatory. Well, he’s right on that count.  It is a derogatory term, as it should be.  It refers to people who are delusionally insane and/or unwilling to accept the fact that a black man has made it to the White House. Take your pick.  And as long as Trump continues with his ‘show us the birth certificate‘ idiocy, birther is a fitting term to describe him.

Trump fired back with a letter to the Times in which he personally attacked Collins…

Even before Gail Collins was with the New York Times, she has written nasty and derogatory articles about me.  Actually, I have great respect for Ms. Collins in that she has survived so long with so little talent. Her storytelling ability and word usage (coming from me, who has written many bestsellers), is not at a very high level. More importantly, her facts are wrong!

He also went on to repeat the same debunked claims that President Obama was not born in the U.S.

Open your eyes, Gail, there’s at least a good chance that Barack Hussein Obama has made mincemeat out of our great and cherished Constitution!

I always love when President Obama’s opponents make note of his middle name in their attacks.  It’s as if they believe that repeating the word “Hussein” somehow adds weight and credibility to their arguments.  Idiots.

Anyway, best line of the Trump/Collins battle goes to Ms. Collins. Referring to the Trump escapades of late (he also believes that Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s ‘Dreams From My Father‘), Collins writes:

I find this a disturbing spectacle — a little like seeing a guy you know from the neighborhood suddenly turn up in the middle of Times Square with his face painted blue and yelling about space aliens.

So what exactly makes Trump any different from the current crop of Republican presidential hopefuls such as Bachmann, Gingrich and Palin?  Not much really.  They’re one sorry lot of clowns, fools, liars, sociopaths and jackasses.

All in all, it tells you a whole lot about the state of that particular political party.  It doesn’t get more pathetic than this.

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George Will is concerned.

If pessimism is not creeping on little cat’s feet into Republicans’ thinking about their 2012 presidential prospects, that is another reason for pessimism. This is because it indicates they do not understand that sensible Americans, who pay scant attention to presidential politics at this point in the electoral cycle, must nevertheless be detecting vibrations of weirdness emanating from people associated with the party.

The most recent vibrator is Mike Huckabee..

When not showing righteous indignation toward unwed mothers, Huckabee finds himself pandering to the lowest form of human intelligence existing in the right’s growing fringe of loons – birthers. Asked by a talk radio wingnut about the President’s supposed unwillingness to show his birth certificate, Huckabee said:

“I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough. And one thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya. . . .”

Huckabee was given a golden opportunity to earn credibility points by dismissing the question as well as the entire birther movement as pure nonsense. Instead he opted to feed the beast with his “I would love to know more..” response. And for good measure he threw in an outright lie. Barack Obama did not grow up in Kenya. Five of his first eighteen years were spent in Indonesia. The rest were in Hawaii.  As for Huckabee’s claim that he meant to say Indonesia, well, that’s been shown to be a lie too.

Huckabee joins Newt Gingrich in attempting to create a nefarious Obama/Kenyan connection. Here was the newt’s comment from a few months back.

“What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?” Gingrich asks. “That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.”

Which led Will to write…

So the Republican winnowing process is far advanced. But the nominee may emerge much diminished by involvement in a process cluttered with careless, delusional, egomaniacal, spotlight-chasing candidates to whom the sensible American majority would never entrust a lemonade stand, much less nuclear weapons.

And that, folks, is your day’s message from a conservative icon.  Good stuff.
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Just when you thought that Obama Derangement Syndrome had maxed out the lunacy index, this comes out of Georgia.

A House Republican this week – backed by 93 other lawmakers – proposed a law that would force presidential and vice presidential candidates to prove their citizenship before landing on the Georgia ballot.

House Bill 401 would not allow a candidate on the ballot until the Secretary of State receives “adequate evidence of such person’s eligibility for election” to those offices. The bill’s sponsor is Mark Hatfield, R-Waycross, but has huge backing with other GOP members.

“I think the issue with our sitting president has been left unresolved for a significant length of time that people have concerns,” Hatfield said. “But this is not just about our current president. It’s about enforcing the constitutional provisions for anyone who seeks the office of presidency.

The Constitution. It’s always about the Constitution and nothing about birthers being crazy racists who cannot accept a black man as their president. Whatever. These idiots accomplish little more than reinforce the belief in the minds of independents as well as the sane of both political parties that the GOP is the place where bigots, racists and the dim-witted all converge in one grand display of STOOPID.

For the record, Georgia becomes the11th state with pending legislation of this kind.  They join Arizona, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Connecticut, Indiana, Tennessee and Maine. I can’t wait for those Koch brothers paid attack ads next year. I’m sure they’ll be lovely.

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Karl Rove on birtherism.

“This is the White House strategy, they love this. Look, the President could come out and say ‘Here are the documents,’ but they are happy to have this controversy continue.”

“Every moment the conservatives talk about this, they marginalized themselves and diminish themselves in the minds of independent voters.”

a)  The people who were required to see the documents, have seen them.  End of story.  The President issued his birth certificate and there is no need to cater further to the lunatic fringe of the Republican party.  By the way, it’s getting increasingly more difficult to refer to the kooks on the right as being part of a ‘fringe’.  The right-wing fringe has gone mainstream.

b)  If this was a “White House strategy”, it’s a damn good one. Birthers are conservatives and Republicans and voters should be reminded of this fact at every opportunity. They were not created by Dems but instead emerged from the bigoted, idiot wing of the Republican party.  Birthers are conservatives who are unwilling to accept a black man as their President.

Sorry Karl, but these idiots are part of the folks you counted on to vote for George W. Bush.  You loved them then.  You’re stuck with them now.

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Always nice when justice is served…especially in the case of birthers.

An Army doctor who disobeyed orders to deploy to Afghanistan because he questioned President Barack Obama’s eligibility to be commander in chief was sentenced by a jury Thursday to six months in a military prison and dismissal from the Army.

The military jury spent nearly five hours deliberating punishment for Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin on Thursday after three days of court martial proceedings at Fort Meade, outside Baltimore.

Lakin was convicted of disobeying orders – he had pleaded guilty to that count – and missing a flight that would have gotten him to his eventual deployment.

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In online videos posted on YouTube, Lakin aligned himself with the so-called “birther” movement that questions whether Obama is a natural-born citizen, as the Constitution requires for presidents, and said he was inviting his own court martial.

Lakin is now asking for leniency, admitting he should not have disobeyed orders despite his strong held birther beliefs.  Too late, fool.  Lakin milked this entire affair from day one as he sought the cameras and microphones.  Whoever was advising this guy should also be punished for it’s hard to imagine how anyone in their right mind could have imagined this sad spectacle ending differently.

It’s not often we get to see stupidity punished so fittingly so when it does happen, a smile or two is more than warranted.

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You’re not going to learn much from the following video exchange between Anderson Cooper and Texas State Rep./birther Leo Berman except what you already knew: birthers are blithering idiots. What I found of more interest was how this clip is a classic example of what any attempt to reason with a wingnut/birther/teabagger/Fox News groupie sounds and looks like: an exercise in futility.

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I must confess that every now and then I drop by WorldNutDaily to check out what garbage the clowns are spewing out these days. I imagine I do it for the same reason that I pick up and glance through a National Enquirer as I wait in the checkout line at Winn-Dixie. Dumb, idle curiosity…and a deep need to know which celebrity has just given birth to an alien child. Yes, inquiring minds do want to know.

Well, to no surprise, WorldNutDaily is still hacking away at their own version of the alien birth story…the birther craze. These guys just won’t let go. These were the headings for their top stories when I checked in.

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
THE BIG LIST of eligibility ‘proofers’
See those who have raised questions about legitimacy of Obama presidency
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After almost two years of this nonsense, there is still a market out there for people who enjoy their news mixed in with a whole bunch of insanity. I imagine the crazies do need something to read too.

Ok, gotta go.  I’m holding up the checkout line.

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