Conservatives Have Plenty of Ammunition Without the Birth Certificate Brouhaha

Just because some­thing feels good doesn’t make it a good idea.

I get emails hav­ing proof that Obama wasn’t qual­i­fied to run for pres­i­dent. They have a kind of There! See? He isn’t who he said he is! air about them.

The fact is that Obama may not have been qual­i­fied to run for pres­i­dent or to be pres­i­dent, but he got a major­ity of the elec­toral col­lege to vote for him.   You’re not going to get him out of office with­out impeach­ment and con­vic­tion.  When the Democ­rats have big majori­ties in both houses of Con­gress that ain’t gonna hap­pen.   So the only upside is that it can make some peo­ple, who wouldn’t vote for Obama and prob­a­bly not any Demo­c­rat if their lives depended on it, feel charged up and vindicated.

The down­side is that it can annoy a lot of peo­ple who can go either way. The Democ­rats are count­ing on that, as related by the Hot Air blog.

The “blame Bush” strat­egy flamed out in Mass­a­chu­setts so they’re mov­ing on to an even more sub­stan­tive Plan B.

“Given the pres­sure Repub­li­can can­di­dates feel from the extreme right in their party, there is a crit­i­cal – yet time-​​sensitive –oppor­tu­nity for Demo­c­ra­tic can­di­dates,” a DSCC memo, obtained by CNN, states. “We have a finite win­dow when Repub­li­cans can­di­dates will feel sus­cep­ti­ble to the extrem­ists in their party. Given the urgent nature of this dynamic, we sug­gest an aggres­sive effort to get your oppo­nents on the record.”

When the Democ­rats took com­plete con­trol in 2009 they had the chance to do some seri­ous good for the coun­try.  Instead, hav­ing large majori­ties in both houses of Con­gress and a very pop­u­lar pres­i­dent, they mounted their hob­by­horse, drew their sword, and went gal­lop­ing off towards the enemy, the rich fat cats as por­trayed in 1930’s New Yorker car­toons, and in the process their enthu­si­as­tic sword thwacks hacked off a few mil­lion jobs that aren’t com­ing back any time soon.

Con­ser­v­a­tives need to be smarter than that.  The coun­try deserves it.

The entire piece at Hot Air is HERE.

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