even a Bushie calls it what it is: "Racist"

[kpete]

The Birther Disgrace
DAVID FRUM

How did this poisonous and not very subtly racist allegation get such a grip on our conservative movement and our Republican party?

I know there will be Republican writers and conservative publicists who will now deny that birtherism ever did get a grip. Sorry, that’s just wrong. Not only did Trump surge ahead in Republican polls by flaming racial fires – not only did conservative media outlets from Fox to Drudge to the Breitbart sites indulge the birthers – but so also did every Republican candidate who said, “I take the president at his word.” Birthers did not doubt the president’s “word.” They were doubting the official records of the state of Hawaii. It’s like answering a 9/11 conspiracist by saying, “I take the 9/11 families at their word that they lost their loved ones.”

Yet even now, the racialist aspect of the anti-Obama movement has not subsided.

http://www.frumforum.com/the-birther-disgrace

[deacon]

1. And thats what it is. n/t

[JHB]

2. How did it get a grip? Easy...

Nixon's Southern strategy
Reagan's welfare queens
urban crime
racial quotas
political correctness
etc. etc. etc.

Constant pandering to fears and prejudices rooted in racism.

Frum, ol' bean, your conservative movement and your Republican party is simply reaping what you've sown.

[lisa58]

3. Very well said...

...How indeed?

[ingac70]

4. Whining from a member of the party that caters to the Klan?

:nopity:

[Recursion]

5. Frum has been exiled from the GOP since 2008 or so

He's sort of in the Andrew Sullivan former wing of the party (ie, the guys who are just wrong without being batshit insane)

[Fuzz]

6. The far right, who are the birthers, have written off Frum long ago.