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Thers on the Birthers:

Apart from that, though, what will probably end up happening is that the GOP bigwigs will keep up with the doubletalk until a more exciting and ever so slightly more plausible nutty conspiracy theory comes along that the whole moron gang can cheerfully get behind and bray about endlessly, all family troubles in the past buried and forgotten.

I'm going to argue they've already found it, or are trying to actively manufacture it, with Gatesgate. How many times has Obama been basically called a racist since Wednesday? Obama is a Kenyan, not plausible. Actual evidence against it. Obama secretly hates white people? Can't disprove that with a piece of paper with a notary stamp on it, can you? Doesn't matter what he says now about anything, any time, any place. He's a (whispers) racist.

You can ride that one for the next 40 plus months. The GOP will be flogging this forever and ever and ever and ever.

Count on it.