Top Issues for 2010: Economy, Spending, Taxes... Birth Certificate?
Every time I call attention to anything in the Carly Fiorina-Chuck DeVore GOP primary fight in California, I know I can count on more e-mail from each side's dedicated supporters. But this (HT: GOP12) jumped out at me, and warranted the inevitable, "why are you writing about X but not about Y" e-mails...
Nonetheless, asked what he thought of Brown’s ideas, DeVore didn’t take the chance to denounce “birther” rumors or the movement itself–which has been heavily active in California.
“The president is doing himself no favors by spending millions of dollars to block the release of documents surrounding his birth certificate,” said DeVore. “As long as the president keeps fighting tooth and nail to prevent the release of such things, people are going to remain skeptical.” The door was left open, said DeVore, because Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign didn’t go after Obama’s qualifications when it had the chance, and because there were no statutory requirements for verifying a candidate’s citizenship.
Please tell me the president's birth certificate will not be an issue in the GOP primary...
UPDATE: Team DeVore responds. "I can tell you it won't be [an issue in the primary]. We're not the ones bringing this up, as it's completely irrelevant as a campaign issue. Fiorina's campaign is."
They note they put up a web video on this theme:
UPDATE: Devore himself adds, via e-mail, "I said ten years ago that the move to impeach and convict President Clinton was a distraction from countering his liberal policies. So too is the effort now to question President Obama's legitimacy. Make no mistake, the Constitution is clear: Barack Obama is the President. The more time Carly Fiorina's campaign spends on this side issue, the less time we have to work against the far-left agenda and failed policies of President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Senator Boxer."
