Birthers And Birchers

By The Daily Dish

A useful reminder of a previous occasion on which the Republican base called the president a communist. The president was Eisenhower. Eventually, the Birchers were kicked out of the party; today, the Birthers are 70 percent of the party. It will take a helluva civil war to kick them out.

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