And would Democrats not have done the same were a Republican president plagued with so many "erroneous" statements from said president's wife, publisher, brother, etc?
Starkey stated above that this election should be focused on the economy and I wholeheartedly agree and would add that Obama's performance up to now should be pivotal as well. But even that appears to be asking too much of the current president.
We are not worried about Democrats would "have done the same way" if it were a GOP candidate. It does not matter.
What matters is that your birfer pathology hurts the GOP's chance not helps it.
Keep calling it "my" issue or a "conservative" issue but the fact is if the issue had been raised by conservatives and the fires stoked by conservatives as opposed to Clinton, Michelle Obama, Obama's publisher, Obama's brother, Obama's grandmother, etc, the issue would now be long dead.
Republicans are not running on the issue but the more questions that are raised by those who would be expected to be in Obama's tank, the more people are going to stop for a minute and say, "wtf".