Perhaps, but it is also possible that the eligibility controversy has already seriously wounded the leftist insurgency. Political results follow a wave propagation pattern. A single small stone hitting still water produces a wave pattern much larger than the originating stone. Similarly, it is not necessary for everyone to be a birther for birtherism to have an impact disproportionate to its size. When approximately half the nation wonders if or has at least heard that the President might really be an illegal alien, it acts like a lead weight on his ability to consolidate or gain power, and weighs down his entire party with him on a principle of complicity.
So do not underestimate the effect that the pervasive, brooding atmosphere of doubt, created by a relatively small core of eligibility doubters, has had in strengthening the conservative narrative of Obama as an outsider to all things American, attempting to impose despotic principles on a free people because he is not really one of them. That festering doubt most certainly contributed to the election results in 2010, and to the extent those doubts continue unresolved they will most certainly continue to weaken and ultimately dissipate Obama’s leftist insurgency.
However, so much of what I would expect as predictable behavior has gone out the window with Obama. He is a charlatan who barely hides his deceit and at times even taunts a large segment of the population with the truth about himself (the fact that he is a liar and a snake). Yet his devoted followers behave as if they are under some kind of powerful hypnotic spell. His hold over his devout followers is seemingly unbreakable (or we would have seen cracks due to the horrible state of the economy or the obvious bald face lies spewed out of the WH).
While I have a deep hunger to agree with your sensible and normally inarguable position/statement, I was rattled when even some centrist commentators praised Obama's speech in Tucson. To any sane human being, Obama's speech in Tucson was an audacious and wildly inappropriate self-serving campaign speech delivered on--even piggy-backed on--what should have been a solemn occasion for mourning the dead. Yet the public did not scream its disapproval.
Bottom line: something is wrong here...normal rules of human behavior have don't seem to apply. This fiend, Obama, not only gets away with scandalous behavior...he does so while taunting the public with the scandal of it all. Everything he does is a slap at America. He ruins the economy, bows to our enemies, uses his DOJ to violate the law, reaches out to those who would destroy us, passes treaties which unilaterally disarm us, adopts rules of engagement which endangers our military, insults our dead, violates election laws, lies when the truth is available even convenient, insults our God, insults our forefathers, violates our very Constitution...yet does all these things with impunity (at least so far). No...something is horrible amiss with this picture. Something is unnatural about this man to the point of being demonic.
I pray that you are correct, but every fiber of my body screams that you are not--not this time.