Last week Mike Huckabee told a radio audience that Barack Obama grew up in Kenya and for this reason, Obama's view of the Mau Mau revolution is different from other Americans.
Huckabee's statement was greeted by silence from other Republicans.
On a similar track, Newt Gingrich published an article saying Barack Obama is so outside our comprehension that he can only be understood by understanding Kenyan anti-colonial behavior.
This too was greeted by silence from Republicans.
Finally, a respected conservative, George Will, took Huckabee and Gingrich to task in Will's March 6th Washington Post Op-Ed by observing that Republicans who don't "recoil" from careless, nonsensical statements like those of Huckabee and Gingrich injure the entire Republican party.
Most Americans understand where Barack Obama was born, where he spent some early years, and where he lived as a teenager.
Statements like those of Huckabee and Gingrich defy common sense and paint the entire Republican party as uninformed and extreme. As George Wills rightly observes, any Republican 2012 presentational nominee risks finding themselves tainted by their association with a political party unable to refute self serving statements which are blatantly untrue.
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