Bravo for a five-star post! Please notice that I have asked any number of these gadflies to define “birther”. They absolutely refuse to do it. I guarantee any definition they come up with would exclude me, and yet they come at me with that pejorative as if flinging it out there alone wins the argument. There is Big Time anger, hatred and irrationality on the ‘anti-birther’ side. I encounter it every day. For the folks who are supposed to be the smart ones, they sure say some ugly things. I.e.: why are so many insults necessary, if they have rationality, the facts and logic on heir side?
PS: I am wondering more and more about the Soros connection. Most of the anti-birther research can be traced back to one or another group funded by Soros. Since when do so many conservatives take leftist talking points and regurgitate them unexamined? Something strange is going on here, and I hope we eventually find out what it is.
The term "birther" doesn't bother me. I treat it the way the Founding Patriots did the British's attempts to mock them with the song "Yankee Doodle." It was written by a British doctor as an attempt at Propaganda and Psy-Ops. British troops would sing it at gatherings of Americans to impugn them and call them unmanly. (The song refers to effete and unmanly characteristics of the "American Dandy." The "Macaroni Club" was a famous gay bar in London at this time.)
Americans turned the tables on them when they started singing it at defeated British troops after a victory. They threw the taunt right back in the British faces, and made the song a piece of our National Patriotism!
PS: I am wondering more and more about the Soros connection. Most of the anti-birther research can be traced back to one or another group funded by Soros. Since when do so many conservatives take leftist talking points and regurgitate them unexamined? Something strange is going on here, and I hope we eventually find out what it is.
I have long pondered this phenomena myself. There are people who are rock solid conservative who are absolutely "hatter mad" loons when it comes to Obama's birth certificate and eligibility. From 2008-2011, I regularly argued with the Denizens of "Ace of Spades HQ" up to and including Ace. Judging by Ace and co's posting of articles, they are by no means liberal. They are die hard Fiscal/Social conservatives, yet on this particular issue, they are foaming at the mouth rabid defenders of Obama.
My best theory to explain this is better said by this man and his article. I think this guy nailed it. Excellent article.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/confessions_of_a_birther_evangelist.html
Cascade and herd theory seem to fit the facts perfectly.