To me this happened after the great Trump charge into the awaiting LFCOLB ambush.
Anyone who (as I predicted they would) doubles down on “it is a fraud - show us the REAL document” is already a hard core fringe fanatic who will NEVER be satisfied.
If they put out a video of 0bama (or his lawyer) directly picking up his LFCOLB from Hawaii DOH - opening up the sealed envelope and putting the document under the cameras - they would just insist (as many already do) that the Hawaii DOH is “in on it” - while simultaneously insisting that the document is an “obvious” forgery.
To me this is like claiming that 0bama conspired with the Treasury to print “counterfeit” $100 bills - and the resulting bills were “obviously” fake.
It doesn't make sense to anyone with a lick of reason.
They have already been reduced to their hard core fanatic constituency. Anyone still on-board at this point will not be swayed by evidence, logic, reason, or electoral reality.
Yeah, you make good points and are probably right about this. It just strike me that many conservatives are still fairly tolerant of this stuff. The vast majority don't agree or want anything to do with it themselves, but they don't always outright condemn it yet. My point was only that once birthers become a clear electoral liability, you'd see the last shreds of conservative sympathy fall away.
Example. If say your neighbors are a family of birthers, but mostly agree with you on every other issue and you otherwise expect them to vote for the Republican nominee - you might give them some latitude as long as they don't get too weird. The minute you find out they aren't even going to vote for the nominee because of the birther issue or are actually hurting your cause, then maybe you become more strident in your condemnation of their conspiratorial agenda.