Similar analysis:
Was the Republican Party aware of John McCain’s potential eligibility issue? Of course it was. The issue was written about by major news organizations – The New York Times, The Washington Post. They wrote about it in 1998. They again wrote about it in 2008. In February of 2008 the Panama issue was written about by these and other major news outlets. And unlike the mocking and sarcastic tone used when writing about Obama’s eligibility issues, these articles are written in serious journalistic fashion and raise the possibility of a constitutional crisis should McCain be elected.
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But they knew that McCain was likely just a sacrificial lamb. And they knew that after 2008, no one would care about the details of a little-known constitutional clause about a special type of citizenship.
Or would they? If Hillary Rodham Clinton had won the nomination for the Democrat Party, then everything would have fallen into place as projected by the Republicans, and the damage from the fraud committed by Republicans in the 2008 election would likely have been forgotten.
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Of course I know no more than Mr. Sweeney,and give him much credit since the scenario that Republicans were planning strategically by running the ineligible McCain had not occurred to me. Following Sweeney's analysis, could it be the Repub. assumption was that, as Obama’s actions conform to the background hidden by the press, but exposed by Howard Kurz and Trevor Louden, Obama too would be unelectable in 2012. What if Obama too was intended to be sacrificial? Dems knew he would be hated by or before 2012. Accepting that Obama would do the dirty work of pushing every unpopular issue down the throats of the public, Hillary could play a moderate, accepting the removal of some of the socialism imposed by Obama, and be around to supply pork until 2020?
We agree that Republicans were complicit, including McCain. That may be why Sarah Palin has kept her distance from the party, and them from her. Should Republican complicity be magically exposed before the 2012 elections - probably by a Democrat - the popularity of Republicans like Boehner, and even the sometimes good guys like DeMint, will disappear. They all lied to the public. The numbers suggest that the Tea Party supporters are almost twice as numerous as moderate (Rino) Republicans. Democrats are masters at dividing the house, and there may be mileage in the late term exposure of Republicans who all signed Senate Res 511 in which Pat Leahy agreed with Chertoff that a natural born citizen is born of two citizen parents. Democrats can claim, as they do now, that the Constitution is dated - the framers couldn't anticipate the globalism of the future; but Republicans will not get the votes of conservatives who believe it is the foundation of our freedoms. They/we won't support representatives who chose to play ignorant to its meaning, even when it was explained to them by Patrick Leahy and Clair McCaskill.