“bottom line, the liberals control the media and the narrative. Our army and our power is small. We need to pick our battles. We can’t fight on every front”
You hit it.
Whatever the truth of the matter, the left (and media) have successfully portrayed anyone who goes after Obama on grounds of eligibility as a hopeless flake. The fact that no one has been able to get a court case to stick in any way certainly doesn’t help.
So Rush, Levin etc. won’t touch it because it would give their political enemies the ammunition they need to portray THEM are marginal kooks - thus undercutting whatever perfectly valid complaints they have against the Vacationer-in-Chief.
Put on your asbestos suit, you’re about to get flamed. No going off script when conservatives or those perceived to be conservatives are being attacked.
Last Friday, February 17, wife and I stopped at the State Capitol in Columbia, SC. Every year for the last several, a bus load of africanhyphenamericans have traveled from Detroit on the Martin Luther King post office holiday to protest a rebel flag displayed on the SC Capitol grounds and we wanted to see what all the hullabaloo was about. While there, we noticed and approached a small group of people holding Rebel and Gadsen flags. Turned out they were there to push Ron Paul and commemorate the February 17, 1865 burning of Columbia by the Yankees. To your point, there may be things that are, in their time, important and valid, but they will not be successfully fought under the present conditions.
Unfortunately, due to conditions that we all have had a hand in, there can be only one objective at the current time, and that is to make the foreign ursurper a one term president. If the left is successful in taking our shortcomings and using them against us to encourage the mushy middle, the paulbots, and the leftist trash to turn out for that vile “man”, there is no end to the damage a second term can do. Very little restrains his contemptible behavior now.
It is easy to cast blame, it is much more difficult to fix the current mess and requires unselfish focus on all our parts.
I would love to see the Occupier-in-Chief be declared ineligible. So, why, after all this discussion, has it not happened? You can blame the bias in the media and fear of ridicule, but those aren't enough to explain it.
The fact that none of the court cases have gotten off the ground indicates to me that something is wrong with the argument.
Whenever I try to follow the argument I get lost in a pile of esoteric legalism and questionable interpretations of the Constitution, laws, and public policy. If the so-called "Birthers" cannot provide a simple, clear argument, it is no wonder popular talk show hosts won't touch it.
Cascade and Herd theory. This article in American Thinker does an excellent job of explaining why our side has joined the Liberal side in ridiculing questions of Obama's illegitimacy.