I believe it is commonly a liberal tactic to denounce all who disagree as traitors, or cowards, or liars, or butt-kissers.
Ummmm.... do you really realize that you've just called the group here on Free Republic of the Obama Derangement Syndrome crowd -- all those names? Hoo-boy! you are certainly brave... :-)
Actually, that’s not what I said. I said it is a liberal tactic to assume bad faith as a given whenever someone disagrees.
I don’t believe these things are true of (many of) those who believe strongly in the whole birther thing. I just find some of their denunciations of those who hold a different opinion to be unworthy of someone claiming the proud name of “conservative.”
Lincoln, who I admire greatly, bent every effort to assume good motives on the part of his political opponents, during the greatest crisis in American history. I believe it is both honorable and in the long run politically more effective to do the same.