Tell you what - you to go to all FR threads that are discussing high value campaign issues - health care, foreign policy, our troops and ROE issues in Afganistan, whatever - and you hijack each thread for the birther issue. Do that for a week and get back to me on how many times you were called a dumbass, and also why they are wrong.
I’m not saying we have to insert the eligibility issue into every other issue. But a GOP candidate doesn’t have the right to start his thread and not let anybody else start their own - although I grant that this is what most politicians are like, which is one of the big problems we have. Politicians are able to evade.
If this guy is willing to state clearly ONCE that he believes Congress should mandate an investigation into potential laws broken in the eligibility saga I think he would find that he doesn’t get so many questions about it from Tea Partiers any more. Nathan Deal comes to mind. I don’t think he needs to take a lot of time. I think he just needs the courage to say what needs to be said, once.
Of course, he may get the media out to stop him by whatever means necessary. He could get the same response by saying we need to repeal healthcare reform, so what’s the difference?
The media and dems get the power to use this issue to embarrass, isolate, or triangulate us only if we give them that power by running from it.
Nobody is getting money bribing Elton John by threatening to tell the world he’s gay. Compare that with Foley from Florida and the restroom footsie guy in Oregon (forgot his name). The power is in whether the person is ashamed, or whether they are open about it. If conservatives from the very beginning had been unwavering on this issue, we would not be where we are now. Obama and a host of other crooks from all over the country would be sitting in jail.
One of the biggest strengths a person can have is to take what the enemy considers to be a weakness and make it a strength. Flip the tables. Defiantly say, “You dang right I’m for the rule of law - and I was for it even when the media was laughing in my face for it! Why are you, media, AGAINST the rule of law, as you see more and more people saying they have less rights now and historic low levels of trust for both Congress and the President and as we see our doors thrown open wide to Mexican druglords while the feds tie the hands of our brave AZ law enforcers who would defend from the marauding army?”
It’s a perfect chance to put the spotlight back where it belongs - on the lawless thugs who have put us in this mess in the first place.
At the end of “Braveheart” (which I saw for the first time recently and watched again last night) the British tried to use William Wallace’s torture and execution as a warning to the Scotsmen by hanging his head on London Bridge and sending his arms and legs to the four corners of Britain.
They thought the people would cower. They thought wrong. What they did to Wallace steeled the resolve of the Scotsmen (even the ruler) and kept the Brits from being able to have power over them by mere threats. What Longshanks thought would be his great trump card over Wallace ended up being the rally call for Scotland’s freedom even after Wallace was dead.
There’s a time to be subtle, to negotiate carefully, and win by stealth. Maybe I’m wrong and that’s what time it is now. I don’t know. I guess that’s why we’re having this discussion. I see what you’re saying. But I’m also very afraid of the elder Robert the Bruce, who betrayed William Wallace and his people because he said it was time for expedient and cunning negotiation when it was actually the day for battle.
I do know that if our leaders don’t recognize in their own guts the enemy we face - which is primarily a public dumbed-down by Marxist ideology and Marxist media, who would even THINK of electing the garbage they’ve elected - then they can’t lead us through these treacherous times.