WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah made an ass out of himself at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville when he launched into a 10-minute screed about Obama’s citizenship. Prior to Farah’s outburst, the only people really talking about “birthers” was the media.

Unfortunately, Farah decided to try and hijack the Tea Party Convention with his crank theories and mean-spirited rhetoric. It was neither helpful nor appreciated.

After Farah’s speech, Andrew Brietbart rightly criticized him and urged people to reject that kind of nonsense.

“It’s self-indulgent, it’s narcissistic, it’s a losing issue…It’s a losing situation. If you don’t have the frigging evidence — raising the question? You can do that to Republicans all day long. You have to disprove that you’re a racist! Forcing them to disprove something is a nightmare….We have a lot of strong arguments to be making, and that is a primary argument. That is an argument for the primaries that did not take hold. The arguments that these people right here are making are substantive arguments. The elections in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts were all won not on birther, but on substance.”

The list of things to attack President Obama on is long and distinguished, but his citizenship is a non-issue. It’s petty, it’s stupid, and more importantly there’s no evidence. The only people who believe Obama is not really a US citizen at this point are the kooks. Anyone who cares about winning elections or the Tea Party movement in general should stay the hell away from the kooks.

The “birthers” should get together with the “9/11 Truthers” and the “Fema Camp” conspiracy folks and form a new party. They can have their own conventions and give fiery conspiracy laden speeches all they want.

Just stay the hell away from Tea Parties, Republican Conventions, and anywhere else sane, rational people gather — we have elections to win and Democrats to defeat.

-Chris Jones