Why not? It worked against those questioning Obama's credentials.
Its classic propaganda 101. No one wants to be considered the ‘other’/the outsider. Everyone wants to sit at the cool kids table because high school never ends. If you can make the kook/insert ‘other’ meme viral, you personalize and isolate TEA as ‘other’ in the public eye. The public then does your gob scapegoating for you.
Sound familiar?
Obama didn’t need the questioner’s votes come election time.
The Republican primary winner still needs the votes of 1/2 of his party come November. Having called them nutty KKKlansmen since June 3, I can’t really see that happening.
Can you?