Bradley in DC
07-28-2009, 09:47 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/in_the_right/2009/07/keyes-and-the-birthers-buckley.html
"Birthers" Off-Base on Obama
CQ Politics' "In the Right" commentator Bill Pascoe, who as a Republican operative once did opposition research on Barack Obama, says there is no birthplace evidence to use against him, and argues for responsible conservatives to stand up to the "birther" movement.
Keyes and Birthers, Buckley and Birchers
By Bill Pascoe | July 28, 2009 12:30 PM
As one of the GOP operatives whose job it was to defeat Barack Obama in a campaign for federal office (there have only been three GOP campaigns run against him, and I've been involved with two of them), I can attest to the fact that nowhere in our opposition research did we find any reason to believe that the man was not a natural born citizen of the United States. . .
Coincident or not, [birther coverage] is eating up valuable air time and gobbling up precious inches of type that could, and should, be devoted to other, more pressing, matters -- like the self-immolation of the Democratic Party, as it struggles to find a way to reform the health care delivery system without destroying it.
Reasonable and responsible conservatives, thus, are stuck. We are being lumped in with irresponsible and unreasonable conspiracy theorists.
And I believe the time has come for reasonable and responsible conservatives to deal with the Birther Problem.
"Birthers" Off-Base on Obama
CQ Politics' "In the Right" commentator Bill Pascoe, who as a Republican operative once did opposition research on Barack Obama, says there is no birthplace evidence to use against him, and argues for responsible conservatives to stand up to the "birther" movement.
Keyes and Birthers, Buckley and Birchers
By Bill Pascoe | July 28, 2009 12:30 PM
As one of the GOP operatives whose job it was to defeat Barack Obama in a campaign for federal office (there have only been three GOP campaigns run against him, and I've been involved with two of them), I can attest to the fact that nowhere in our opposition research did we find any reason to believe that the man was not a natural born citizen of the United States. . .
Coincident or not, [birther coverage] is eating up valuable air time and gobbling up precious inches of type that could, and should, be devoted to other, more pressing, matters -- like the self-immolation of the Democratic Party, as it struggles to find a way to reform the health care delivery system without destroying it.
Reasonable and responsible conservatives, thus, are stuck. We are being lumped in with irresponsible and unreasonable conspiracy theorists.
And I believe the time has come for reasonable and responsible conservatives to deal with the Birther Problem.