[9YearLurker]

Congress and the GOP generally are afraid of the birther issue becoming a ‘Lewinsky’, whereby they are punished for overreach and the president is forgiven in re-election.

I’d think the question is whether the bad economy and deep disagreement with his policies, such as Obamacare, could be combined with this issue—ripe, evidently substantive, but not dealt with—whereby the electorate would choose to simply vote him out of office, rather than go for the deep national division (rioting?) and potential national weakening that a Constitutional response to his apparent fraud would create.

[wintertime]

There is an 800 pound rotting corpse of a gorilla sitting on the sofa in the American constitutional living room...and..you are essentially suggesting that Americans hold their noses and tiptoe around the stinking maggoty constitutional mess rather than clean it up.

Yeah! That will help strengthen the Constitution and rule of law. /s