One very prominent Republican who is definitely on board the nirther ship is Hawaii governor Linda Lingle, who introduced Sarah Palin at the convention last year.
For the nirther nuts to be right, Lingle and her entire administration would have to be secretly and feloniously subverted by Demo conspirators.
When asked about this, the nirthers I know just trot out their favorite conspiracy trope, blackmail from the Clinton’s illegally held FBI files. How is it possible though that not just Lingle but everyone associated with her is so corrupt as to be uniformly susceptible to this?
We are living in Crank Conspiracy World, the Marching Morons come to life right before our eyes.