Bill Pascoe says that conservatives need to take a lesson from the past when it comes to dealing with the people who continue to believe that Barack Obama is ineligible to serve as President:
In January 1962, conservative leaders faced a similar problem — how to deal with the members of the John Birch Society, whose leader, George Welch, believed that the former President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was a conscious agent of the International Communist Conspiracy.
National Review Founder William F. Buckley, Jr., Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, conservative historian and philosopher Russell Kirk, and American Enterprise Institute President William Baroody took it upon themselves secretly to meet at The Breakers hotel in Palm Beach, where they decided Welch and the Birchers would have to be excommunicated from the Conservative Movement, lest their lunacy taint reasonable and responsible conservative political activity.
Were Buckley alive today, is there any doubt he would have the same response to the Birthers?
I think not.
Indeed, the editors of the publication he founded seem to agree.
