Blue Mass Group

This just in, according to the Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, Joe Arpaio.  He has just released, via a live-streamed press conference, the results of his “investigation” into the long-form birth certificate released by President Obama a while back.  Arpaio has concluded that it’s a fake, you’ll be shocked to learn.  Also, interestingly, Fox News (of all people) debunked that very theory months ago.

One has to wonder whether Arpaio is a secret mole for the Democrats.  Because the only thing that could make this week worse for the Republican party – after the failure of the Blunt Amendment, the retirement of Senator Snowe, the announcement that Bob Kerrey will run for Senate in NE, and the emerging consensus that MI and other rust-belt states are, as a result of the GOP primary battles there, rapidly becoming unwinnable for the GOP this fall – would be the full-scale re-emergence of birtherism from a Republican elected official.  And that’s exactly what Joe Arpaio just handed us.

Interestingly, Joe Arpaio was born and raised in Springfield, MA.  Also of note: Arpaio endorsed Mitt Romney in 2008.  Reportedly, Romney has been actively seeking his endorsement again this year; one wonders whether today’s events will dampen Romney’s enthusiasm.

Here’s the best tweet I’ve yet seen on this new craziness (and there have been lots of good ones).