GOP kicks up the crazy

Of all the crazy tea party memes the GOP could embrace, the birther thing seems to me to be the craziest. I mean, it's pure Grade A stupid at this point to advance the idea that Obama is not a legitimate American citizen. Yet here's the darling of brown skin haters, Tancredo at a South Carolina tea party saying, "If his wife says Kenya is his homeland, why don't we just send him back?"

But this from another speaker at the rally is almost amusing. He calls out Lindsey Graham for being "teh ghey." Everybody is speculating how much damage the tea party will do to the Democrats, but it will be interesting to see just how much the purity demands of this crowd will spill over onto the GOP incumbents as well. I could think of worse things than seeing a lot of too long entrenched pols from both sides getting dumped in the mid-terms.

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