Last Call

If a Birther pretends that he doesn't believe the President is a US citizen, is he a racist panderer, too ignorant to hold public office, or derelict in his duties to investigate and impeach?  Or hell, all three?  Meet Florida GOP Congressman Cliff Stearns at a town hall from last month:

All I can tell you is that the general consensus is that he has produced a birth certificate. The question is, is it legitimate? That’s where we stand now. I’ve seen a copy of it on television. But you know the Governor of Hawaii couldn’t get what he felt was an original of the birth certificate. He tried to do it and gave up on it. So I think what Obama’s showing is a facsimile, but I think that debate probably is not enough, shall we say, just to impeach him. We’re going to have an election in five or six months so we can change the course of history by electing someone other than Obama. That’s what elections are all about. If we started impeachment this time of year, very difficult in terms of time and strength.

So yeah, at this point I'm leaning towards the first and second of the three, but Stearns himself makes the case that he's guilty of the third as well.  Impeachment is hard.  Why bother with all that hard work when you can just pretend the President is a Kenyan and spread racist hatred among your constituents?

That's much easier.