I'm still of the opinion that most "birthers" are either closeted racists or anti-muslim lobbyists in some way. They need a reason to hate Obama and to question his election, authority, and all else about the guy so they hide behind the plausibility that he was not born here. Now that this has finally been sent to bed the anti-socialist guys will be out in full force.
This is the same reason I want no part in "tea perty movement" despite being more towards a centrist libertarian than anything else. In the middle of Missouri (where I live) those meetings and rallys have been basically taken over by white supremecists that use the "tea party" banner as a front for their agenda. There's only so much one can take of rascist slurs and backwards thinking heard at the one rally I went to before I hit a breaking point. If these guys were actually about fiscal responsibility and doing things the way the Constitutuion laid out I'd be all for it, sadly where I live "tea party members" are super right wing religious types that simply hate Obama.
