The average American is not a jerk. If they see photos of Lakin going to Leavenworth juxtaposed with Obama going golfing, and they are informed for the first time that Obama did this to a decorated officer and family man just because he couldn’t bother with the BC, they will be nauseated. Don’t project your own feelings onto the rest of us, or onto Americans as a whole. The right commercial done on this subject will prove to be the most devastating in political history.
No one is going to make this ad because no one is going to want to be associated with a man who refused his duty simply to prove a point (which he eventually admitted was wrong anyways).
The ad would not be nearly as effective as you think. As has already been demonstrated, release of the birth certificate does not guarantee an end to the debate about Obama’s legitimacy. Plenty are still obsessed with somehow reaching the conclusion that the President is not the President, and it doesn’t matter what the White House does.
While not a certainty, it’s perfectly reasonable to expect that Lakin would just resort to the “Obama’s mother wasn’t old enough to confer citizenship” or any host of other tacts that the majority of voters will not hear or care about.