Leanna Brown? Once again, Colleen O'Dea hasn't been paying attention to public facts.
It was former Senator Leanna Brown who pushed lunatic Birther Bill Eames for the Republican nomination for D27 State Senate less than a year ago.
See http://chatham.patch.com/articles/former-state-senator-endorses-bill-eames
Leanna Brown is leading the charge to turn the GOP over to the lunatic fringe. Get your facts straight, O'Dea.

Sheriff Rochford? Hardly an exemplar of the lunatic fringe. He just pursues the truth where ever the trail takes him. Rochford for President!! Sincerely, C. Manson

This has nothing to do with “moderate republicans”. There are very conservative republicans who also think this birther stuff is nonsense. In fact, many republicans can’t stand that members of their own party, like Bucco and Rockford, buy into this stuff because it makes a mockery of their whole party , and delegitimizes all the other conservative talking points.

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Worth looking into the link above.

Off topic, I know, but I have to say: in my nearly 50 years of life, I do not remember the US ever being prosperous for the middle class under a republican. The only time we had any success was under Clinton. What good are the republicans for the middle class? No good as far as I can tell.

What I find amusing is that these yahoos found so much information through the internet and public records about the "conspiracy", whereas the FBI, CIA, State Dept., etc. (with their top secret info) have all been duped. Unless they're in on it too! (heh)

We get it - he's black!

I don't think lack of proof of birth (if true) has anything to do with Obama's qualifications as President of the United States. Clearly, Bucco et al are clutching at straws to further their own gains.

I'm with you Coleen, and I'm tired of being called a RINO by "Republicans" who are about 20 miles to the right of Louis the fifteenth. If you told me this was the result of alien body snatchers, I'd be very tempted to believe it. This used to be the party of thoughtful, hardworking, smart people, where are their voices to shout this balderdash down?

An open mind questions everything including aliens, moon landings, 9/11 and Obama. Fearful people ridicule and blame when they don’t have answers to the legitimate questions. I’ve got to get back to my Elvis is Alive research now.

These people are nuts. This birther thing is done with and it should never have started. There are some nut job Republicans who have such hatred for the President of the United States that they will grab at anything. I think it's time to get these Republican lunatics out of office.

There is nothing that will prove to me that this is not race based. The attacks on Obama began the minute a significant portion of white America realized they were going to have a Black President. I protested the very first Morristown Tea Party event on the Green and I heard what I heard.

Sheriff Rochford must not be much of an investigator. Corsi points that he found interesting have all been debunked

•A Hawaii Health Department spokesperson had said there was no long form birth certificate, and then Obama’s appeared.

Simply not true. In fact, two different Directors of Health have said they saw the original and he was born in Hawaii.

•Obama had supposedly been born at Queens Medical Center, but later that was changed to Kapiolani Hospital.

No one except a high school newspaper reporter has ever claimed that he was born at Queens Hospital.

•A social security number allegedly was issued in Connecticut after Obama already had started working.

The SSA's own website says that the "geographic locator" is not reliable.

•Obama lived in Indonesia and attended a school that only an Indonesian citizen could attend and, by the way, why are his school and travel records sealed?

Neither of the schools that President Obama attended in Indonesian required him to be an Indonesian citizen. And by the way, everyone's school records are sealed including Dr. Corsi's.

I am so sick of this. Obama's political opponent in the '08 election, John McCain, was not born in the US proper. He was born on a US base in Panama (Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone). Nobody raised a stink about it. Who cares about any of this.

One needs to look no further than moderate republican John Murphy dropping out of the race for reelection to the County Freeholder Board (and he was also a former republican primary candidate for NJ Governor six years ago as well). Given the significant (broad?) republican support for Hank Lyon, somebody with ZERO experience, it really does appear that the new Morris County republican ideology is scaring off very good moderate republican candidates.

the better question is what happened to the democrat party. I grew up in a blue collar neighborhood where all the dads worked hard and took care of their family and didn't need help from the government. now all the democrats care about is having people need the government to take care of them so they get their votes. they don't want to help people better themselves but throw some crumbs at them so they can just survive. i didn't leave the democratic party it left me. the current president is a socialism that hijacked the democrat party.the republican party is not losing its moderates it just seems that way because obama has moved the democrats way way to the left.

obamacare

Al, just for starters it is the Democratic Party not the Democrat Party, You PUBs need to get it right. Second My father was of the generation you speak and he went to Brown of the GI Bill after after military service. A government program. He bought a house on a VA Loan another Government Program. Others bought them under FHA Loans another government program. He drove to work on highways built under a Government sponsored road building program just like millions of Americans.

If these ridiculous men, Bucco and Rochford believe that our President is not American born, they need to be laughed out of office. They are clearly idiots. Just like Scalia, who says he cannot read a 2,800 page document which ios required reading for his job, should be impeached for admitting this personal failure and responsibility. If it was not so serious we would laugh at the homor.

i know dan just a typo. of course the government has a role. those where programs that did help people help themselves. today is different. it's not about helping it's about dependency.

hank lyon has to start somewhere. why can we give him credit for getting involved and trying to make a difference? john murphy i believe was an elected official for 15 yrs and wanted out. should people never vote for someone other then an incumbent? if that's the case obama has no business being president.

Colleen this piece just shows how much you really know and how smart a democrap you really are. Get your facts straight first.

There ought to be an automatic dump button for this woman's column every week.

gorefan big difference, obamacare forces you to purchase healhcare or you are penalized. the 1993 act was to provide access to healthcare. see the difference. this is just his first step. before you know it he will be telling you when to wipe your you know what. this is what scares me about him. maybe i'm wrong, i sure hope so.

Dan, its not hate, I just don't like when someone tries to take our freedoms away, and dictate to us what we can or cannot do. That is not what we fought for in this country all these years. Is that what the Star Spangle Banner or America the Beautiful is all about? I don't think so. I love this country just as well as anyone who answered our countries call of duty, I didn't run to Canada or try to dodge the draft like Clinton did, I went down and volunteered for duty in VietNam, not once but twice and would have gone back for the third time. And if your thinking I went for the drugs your very wrong, I never touch the stuff in 61 years of my life and will not start now. This jerk is a fraud and if the democraps had any guts, they would admit it themselves. Even Hillary said it when she was running for Pres. She said "He is not a legal citizen. Of course she won't say that today because of the job she holds now. The demcraps have been closing their eyes to everything since this jerk got in and so has the media. You think for one moment that nobody has seen it, they come down on the republicans for every little thing but when the dems did them it was all excused. Its a total cover up. He doesn't want the country to see what he is doing and the gas prices or the economy. He said himself if we look at the economy to long they will lose the race. I am tired of people playing the race card when they have no other alternative. Its a disgrace, you were once a Christian, be honest.

Well, gad its sounds like you would enjoy having people tell you what you can do or eat or whatever, so I think you would be happy living in Iraq or Iran with that idiot dinnerjacket who believes the only good jew is a dead one. Then you have the idiot in wash. who likes to give away secrets.

All excellent points Paul! You obviously make a well-reasoned argument.

Thinking of a hobby for Paul. Something peaceful and centering. Paul, guessing something like yoga would be too new-agey and leftist for you.. how about knitting or crocheting? Too feminine....I've got it! Fly-tieing. It's trout season. Very calming, focused hobby. Please take this unsolicited attempt to help you gain some peace and perspective. You are downright scary and your arguments are poorly constructed rants. You skip from topic to topic in ways that suggest you are either main-lining caffeine or suffer from adult onset ADD. Breath, my brother. As-Salamu Alaykum.

momma, are you an idiot, there is nothing wrong with me except I don't like being taken advantage of by stupid politicians. If you are a supporter of this moron is wash. which you seem to be, then you are a disgrace to our way of life. This jerk is a lying moronic muslim pig and should be arrested for crimes against this country. I don't need a hobby like fly-fishing or knitting or crocheting, I already have one, I like to expose and tell the truth about lying politicians. Maybe you just enjoy putting people down who don't believe the same way you do.

gorefan, looking at your little tidbit about the healthcare law. What happens when someone is layed-off from their job and lost any healthcare they had, and all healthcare has run out, then what happens, they pay a fine or go to jail. Do you think that is fair? There are many people I know that their unemployment benefits have run out, and can't collect anymore and have no insurance, thats fair, get real dude. The government doesn't take these people in to concideration when they figure up jobs created numbers, they feel they aren't collecting from unemployment then they must have gone back to work, so they don't count. Why don't you fugure these people in your numbers and tell your buddy Odumbo{Osama} to count those people too, then you'll get the real unemployment numbers and how many jobs were created for real. It'll be about 18% unemployment not 8.3%. Besides all the jobs he has created are working for his stupid wife. She has more people running her so called busy life than a small company has empoyees. The healthcare bill is a big joke and designed to protect the insurance companies and make them money, like AARP was paid $1 million dollars for their endorsement of that thing, and now they are losing a lot of members because of it. How about the little clause they had in there , that many millions went to support a democraps campaign out in Oklahoma I think. What did that have to do with healthcare?

Your comments about the "lying moronic Muslim pig" remind me of when Senator McCain was confronted with a hateful, ignorant voter while on the campaign trail. He said, "No ma'am. He is a decent family man, citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that’s what this campaign is all about. He's not."

gorefan, one more time (Subtitle F: Universal Coverage - Requires each citizen or lawful permanent resident to be covered under a qualified health plan or equivalent health care program by January 1, 2005. Provides an exception for any individual who is opposed for religious reasons to health plan coverage, including those who rely on healing using spiritual means through prayer alone. ") Requires you to be covered. does not state you will be punished if you CHOOSE not to have it. not sure why you can't see the difference.

Both Obamacare and the 2003 republican proposal REQUIRED that everyone purchase coverage, and that is the provision over which republicans are now feigning outrage. It seems to me there was one other law with a similar requirement......oh, yes....Romneycare!

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