California Republicans Worry About 'Birther Queen' Candidacy, Orly Taitz Goes Mainstream - HuffPo

[WillyT]

California Republicans Worry About 'Birther Queen' Candidacy, Orly Taitz Goes Mainstream
First Posted: 06- 7-10 04:27 PM | Updated: 06- 8-10 05:52 PM

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Birther queen Orly Taitz's claim to fame might not have seemed like an ideal launching pad for a Republican campaign for California Secretary of State, but now her momentum has the GOP quaking in their boots.

Taitz is facing a rather weak primary challenge from former Jacksonville Jaguar Damon Dunn on Tuesday, and Republican officials are worried that the controversial conspiracy theorist could go all the way.

As Politico reported Monday, the GOP would see a Taitz victory as a lost opportunity:

"It'd be a disaster for the Republican party," says James Lacy, a conservative GOP operative in the state. "Can you imagine if Meg Whitman and Abel Maldonado -- both of whom might have a chance to win in November -- had to run with Orly Taitz as secretary of state, who would make her cockamamie issues about Obama's birth certificate problems at the forefront of her activities?"


"There is no Republican candidate for statewide office that would be willing to have her campaign with them," says Adam Probolsky, a spokesman for the Orange County Republican Party.

But while the GOP continues to bemoan the relatively powerful campaign that the birther queen has launched from the fringe, Taitz may be taking steps -- however small -- toward the mainstream.

Talking Points Memo reports Tuesday that Taitz, who is originally from Israel, attended the Republican Jewish Coalition "annual summer bash" on Sunday as a "special guest."

Other high-profile Republicans at the event included former Bush adviser Karl Rove, former Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman, and California Senate candidates Chuck DeVore and Carly Fiorina, and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann.

UPDATE:

The Washington Post's Dave Weigel draws up a blueprint for an Orly Taitz victory:

Republican voters, brought out in sizable numbers by the contested primaries for governor and U.S. senator, fill out the rest of their ballot with progressively less information about their candidates. They know Taitz's name from... somewhere. And she's listed first on the ballot, thanks to the state's randomized ranking system. (Some of these voters, of course, will know and avidly support her.) She's identified on the ballot as an attorney, while Dunn is a real estate agent. They check off her name, and she wins.

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Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/08/california-republicans-wo_n_603429.html

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[bluestateguy]

1. She wants that office so she can use CA taxpayer money to file more frivilous birther suits

Even if she won, I think she'd be impeached in a matter of a few months.

[WillyT]

3. Not Only That... Remember That She Would Be In Charge Of CA Elections In 2012...

Not even close to funny...

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[msanthrope]

10. Actually, it would be a frakin' riot....the woman's legal filings are

a scream.

[Hawkeye-X]

7. Few months. Try 30 seconds after she's sworn in.

And 5 minutes later, both agree to removing Taitz.

Fastest public official to be removed by legislature, state or federal.

[PopSixSquish]

2. Somewhere David Plouffe is Lighting Candles and Sacrificing Chickens

This will be hilarious to watch...

[Rex]

4. Hey after they elected powerful morons like Reagan and Arnie

why would anyone else surprise me!? Were they just jealous Jesse got elected and turned out to be half decent?

[bluestateguy]

5. Not the same thing

Schwarzenegger and Reagan had the support of the party establishment and all the money, staff and voters that they bring in. Oily Tits would not have that.

[Rex]

15. True, plus she just seems to be an out and out crook.

[warrior1]

6. can she even run legally?

what does it take to be SOS of Ca?

[Sebastian Doyle]

8. "Taitz, who is originally from Israel"

So where the fuck does she get off demanding anybody's birth certificate if she wasn't fucking born here herself?

Though I would have thought she was born in Russia or somewhere, by the accent.

[msanthrope]

9. She's from Moldova, came to the US through Israel. n/t

[Sebastian Doyle]

11. That's a real country?

I thought that was just a fictional place they made up for that "massacre" scene on Dynasty back in the 80's? :rofl:

[XOKCowboy]

12. LOL I thought I saw it on this map...

Must be just to the right of Double Crossia.

[msanthrope]

13. OMFG--I forgot about that!!! No, it's a real place.....n/t

[WillyT]

14. Talkin About It On KO Right Now...

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