Several reasons:
1. Some weren’t in Congress then, like Ted Cruz.
2. We have proof of crimes now; we didn’t have that before.
3. The threat of race riots seems like piddles compared to what Obama has already done to our military and looks to do to the whole country.
4. Economic collapse is inevitable anyway, if we don’t do something drastic.
5. There is now no doubt in anybody’s mind that Obama means to throw away the US Constitution.
6. Many are seeing that everything that has made America free and prosperous is up for grabs, and that is a very scary prospect. The cost of doing nothing to stop this is getting much, much higher than the cost of at least trying.
4. Rand Paul has demonstrated through the drone filibuster that conservatives are hungry for a leader and will stand with him if he has the guts to do what is necessary - and that those on the left (like Oliver Stone, for instance) who were concerned about the power of government may also cross traditional lines to defend the Constitution.
Truth is, there were people on the left who raised alarms about Constitutional issues - particularly related to unreasonable searches and seizures - when Bush was President and we should have listened to them. They said, “What if a power-grabbing tyrant comes into power and abuses this? What protections will the people have?” Makes me wonder if they knew that Obama was in the pipeline... If we conservatives will acknowledge that they were right on that issue, maybe we can form a coalition that transcends the Dem v Rep lines.
Same thing with folks like “anonymous”. While I don’t savor their techniques, I do believe they use them because they recognize that the laws have been used to hide powerful entities from justice. I don’t think they realize just how central that whole corruption bit has been used by Obama, but I think the death of that RSS guy (I forget his name) has woken them up. They did a fantastic job of exposing the corruption in Steubenville with the rape case. My big bent on the eligibility issue has been the crimes and cover-up. I probably don’t agree with the politics of the folks at “anonymous”, but I think we’re probably kindred spirits when it comes to the crimes and corruption. Why not build on that?
Same thing with Occupy Wall Street. I think they recognize that the politicians are in bed with the bankers. They just don’t know that the worst example of that is BArack Obama and his entire thug regime. The bailout went to foreign, sharia-compliant banks. The stimulus went to companies that donated to Obama’s camaign and then went bankrupt, leaving the taxpayers holding the tab. Again, I probably don’t agree with a lot of the politics of the people in OWS, but some of them are not against rich people but against the CORRUPTION that gets rich people and politicians to use each other while stiffing everybody else. We can build on that.
The people who were offended by the rape comments - a lot of that was just the media stirring the pot and misrepresenting things. But who is it who is standing with the rape victim in Steubenville? On this and so many other issues, if conservatives will have the courage to say the stuff that needs to be said, we can help people see what it means to fight for AMERICA and not just for one political side. For instance, I heard somebody in SF say that he had left Iran because they tried to tell people who they could have sex with, how, and when, and he can’t believe that the same issue is here in America (regarding the gay marriage issue). This is an issue GOPer’s are scared of. But we could be telling this guy and others like him that in Iran it was a question of whether you die, not whether you can have insurance together - and Obama has CONSTANTLY sided with the Islamists, the ones who want sharia. Benghazi was to funnel weapons to the Al Qaeda-linked “resistance” in Syria.
I know this wasn’t part of your question, but I think America needs us to focus on the essentials of what America IS, and why it is so important that she remain what she has been. If we can focus on those critical things and swallow our pride, I think we can forge alliances that screw up all the party line stuff that the establishment political machines have depended on.
The eligibility issue is a prime example of how that works. It started with Hillary supporters - against McCain and against Obama. But their point was valid, and as more evidence was available the people who love truth saw that something rotten was happening, in both parties. The rule of law transcended the political parties we all came from.
If we can learn to major in the majors we may find out that there are more who agree with us on the core principles of America than we ever thought. And the more Obama “radically transforms” America to a lawless place, the more that will be true.
I think of how the Republicans forced Nixon to resign. The press was all over Nixon, as well they should have been. Today we have a corrupted press and a compromised Supreme Court, and we also have the likes of McConnell and Boehner (and everybody else around them) who always seem to appear nervous in public, walking on egg shells, both looking over their shoulders every time I see them on TV, both prisoners of political correctness, afraid of being called racist by racists, afraid that 13 million blacks and who knows how many hispanics will riot in the streets if their tin god is found out to be a fraud, which they must know he is, or at least by this time, have an inkling that something is very wrong about him. I bet they don’t sleep very well at night, not worrying about Obama’s lack of eligibility necessarily, but their own legacies and how they and everybody else who knows about this will be driven out of town on rails, or so I hope, so help me God.
They should have taken care of this a long time ago when they could have nipped it in the bud, and they were too gutless to do so.
This travesty wouldn’t have happened forty years ago. People were different then.