Eight years ago the republican party tried to make Barack Obama's citizenship a campaign issue. They failed and Donald Trump later took on the issue and even said he had hired private investigators to go to Hawaii and investigate Obama's birth and that he would report back to the people his findings. Of course, he never did because they found nothing or did not even go. Trump also alleged that the President's birth certificate was not a true copy.
Now it is Trump again bringing up the "birther" issue against his republican opponent Ted Cruz. The party never dreamed that starting the "birther" issue against Obama would morph into the same issue concerning one of their own party members and would be started by one of their own candidates. And like a ditto head republican Trump said he is bringing the subject matter up because the democrats will do so if Cruz is the party's nominee. Trump, like his party can't stand on his own two feet and had to bring the democratic party into the picture.
What Trump is doing by introducing the "birther" issue into the republican campaign is to create some noise and conversation and there by refrain from telling the people exactly what he stands for and what policies he will use to deal with existing problems. He knows the news media will spend a lot of time on him and his silly pronouncements.
The sixth republican debate last week touched on the matter and that is putting it mildly. The debate was once again a debacle and the only thing the people learned is that the candidates hate the President and Hillary. Old news is no news, but that is the face of republican conservative ideology.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
