Whatever4 wrote:
This makes me so angry I could spit. Col. Roberts is one of my living heroes. Exceptional courage under fire plus an enduring commitment to the military should be something so-called "patriots" idolize. Instead, their litmus test is so sensitive that one action they don't agree with negates a lifetime of true patriotism. Real warriors versus keyboard warriors? No contest.
It is truly disgusting. I think it is this combination of hilarious stupidity and utterly despicable cretinism that keeps me watching these creeps with a mixture of fascination and repulsion.
They spew virulent garbage at true heroes, while worshipping cowards like Lakin, swindling convicts like Smith and Sinclair, screeching Moldovan frauds like Orly, and delusional kooks like Apuzzo, Donofrio, etc. One would have to scour the prisons, crack houses and criminally insane asylums of the nation to gather together such a mass of human detritus.
That the least crooked of the batch is Gary Kreep says a lot.
Their sole criterion for being a "hero" is whether someone shares their fringe delusion. Even then, they hate each other if someone else isn't the exact same brand of fringe lunatic. A Vattel birther hates a Kenya birther, and vice versa. Meet the litmus test, though, and you are a True Patriot, even if you're a multiply convicted felon, pervert, liar, coward, Group W bench type.
Spend a lifetime of exemplary service to your country, exhibit true heroism all your life, and then, like every sane person in the country, reject as nonsensical the idiocy of birthing? Traitor, criminal, bla bla bla.
The problem with birthers is they're dangerous and funny at the same time. It's impossible to underestimate their incompetence and idiocy, but it is possible to underestimate how much damage they cause to the level of political discourse in the country even as they utterly fail. Their lies may inspire someone equally as crazy as they are, but who is not too cowardly, ineffectual and pathetic to accomplish something bad.