Pirate's Cove

Primarily, because once the left runs out of rational arguments, usually about 5 minutes after the debate starts, they cry racism! And that time is now (via Just One Minute)

Mr. Phil Griffin [president of MSNBC] said the claims were legitimate to cover “in that there’s a segment of our population that believes this and keeps bringing it up.”

“It’s racist,” Mr. Griffin said. “Just call it for what it is.”

Shorter Phil Griffin: “I have no idea how to debate this, so, I’ll just call y’all racists.”

Look, unlike the 9/11 Twoofers, there are 3 different birther camps here. First is those who believe Obama is a natural born but just have some slight doubt due to how hard Obama and the Democrats are fighting, and spending mass amounts of money, to stop the release of a $10 long form BC, easily obtainable. Second are those who do not believe he is a natural born citizen, and may delve into some conspiracy theories, but, want a legitimate answer, and would be satisfied with the long form BC. Third, there are those who are as wacko as the Twoofers, and nothing short of impeachment will satisfy them. Unfortunately, they tend to be the most vocal and the ones who file the most lawsuits.

But, for all you folks who scoff at this curiosity, remember, we had to deal with

• Bush stole the 2000 election
• Bush stole the 2004 election
• Diebold
• Bush lied about the WMD and all the stuff associated with this
• Bush was AWOL
• Dan Rathers fake documents
• The Valerie Plame affair
• Bush is doing cocaine
• Bush is drinking again
• Cheney is the actual president
• Bush planned Iraq before taking office
• Iraq and Afghanistan are about stealing their oil
• and all your 9/11 conspiracies, including LILHOP and MILHOP

Those were some of the biggies. You can easily hunt around for more. I asked one big blogger a few years back (I’m not going to drag his name into this) why he kept shooting down the wackadoodle theories of the Truthers instead of ignoring them. He wrote back and said, to paraphrase, “because you have to answer these folks with facts to destroy their theories.” Well, the same person, and others, refuse to discuss this in any sort of rational way now, even along the lines and with those who are in the first category.

Just to be clear, I consider myself to be in the first category, and it is a very minor interest. If we never see the BC, fine. I’d rather spend my time working to defeat Obama’s insane progressive agenda.