.... best tactic birthers can take is to shut up completely about Obama's birth place.
I've handled plenty of cases where I've ditched a weaker argument so as not to detract from the appeal of an argument much more likely to succeed. From what is being argued in this thread, all nine members of the Supreme Court, including Thomas, Scalia, Roberts, and Alito, and the entire Republican contingent of the U.S. Congress, is complicit in covering up this birth issue despite people banging on it for years.
At some point, if you can't take the hill with a frontal assault, you need to consider flanking maneuvers rather than giving your opponent propaganda victories.
I've handled plenty of cases where I've ditched a weaker argument so as not to detract from the appeal of an argument much more likely to succeed. From what is being argued in this thread, all nine members of the Supreme Court, including Thomas, Scalia, Roberts, and Alito, and the entire Republican contingent of the U.S. Congress, is complicit in covering up this birth issue despite people banging on it for years.
At some point, if you can't take the hill with a frontal assault, you need to consider flanking maneuvers rather than giving your opponent propaganda victories.