Turning their backs on birtherism
A very promising sign from the national Tea Party Convention, as the chief media champion of birtherism is called out by Andrew Breitbart and by a broad array of conservative bloggers.
One of the long-standing problems of the Ron Paul movement was the aggressive eagerness of a broad array of crackpots to hijack the conversation in pursuit of their agenda. The adoption of the tea party tactic by mainstream conservatism has seemed at times to pose the same danger; however, we are increasingly seeing a willingness on the party of movement regulars to filter out some of the dumber memes.
It is particularly pleasant to see this particular argument so decisively rejected given that some media commentators and even occasional polls have suggested that birtherism was becoming mainstream among conservatives. Apparently not.
“Apparently not”?
I’m unconvinced. Joseph Farah, as clear a representative of the lunatic edge of movement conservatism as you will find, a true birther, Christian Nation wack job, and utter tin foil hat jack ass, is given a prime speaking slot at the Tea Party convention. Repeated polls show that his positions, including those related to Obama’s citezenship, are quite mainstream among Tea Partiers and movement conservatives alike. But a few bloggers demur and that means its all over? I think not. When Joseph Farah is excluded from any significant role, then I will believe you, until then? Not so much.
Comment by Jack — 2/6/2010 @ 11:45 pm