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Yep. Anyone who thought the birth certificate thing was going anywhere was positively looney. It's the same crowd that barked for years in the 1990s, "If the people only KNOW x, y, z about Clinton, they'll impeach him/throw him out/his popularity will fall." Nope.

During the Clarence Thomas hearings, I upset some Democrats when I told them "I do not believe any of Anita Hill's charges. And even if I was convinced that EVERY SINGLE ONE of her charges were proven true, I would still support Clarence Thomas, because I want somebody of his ideology on the Supreme Court."

The people who voted for him DO NOT CARE. They want a Democrat running the US and pushing the Dem agenda. They do not care about something they probably consider an arcane technicality.

Put another way, if they cared about a strict observance of the Constitution, then they would be Republicans.

Well, that's a good way to put it. But another good way to put it is that on numerous occasions in our history, going all the way back to the Founders, the "will of the people" as expressed in elections often has trumped the written rule of the constitution.

A murderer elected president? Didn't matter. Andrew Jackson wasn't even challenged on it.

Supreme Court ruling that blacks aren't people? No matter. The country moved past that and ignored it.

The ultimate "constitution" in this country is, and always will be, the will of the people, one way or another.