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Originally Posted by hi_im_god
that's because you live inside the birther bubble where such a suggestion is taken as a real possibility. outside, where most of us live, it's laughed off.
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You actually have it totally backwards. The liberals live inside their own bubble and are totally out of touch with the mainstream. Many of the liberals I know tend to only talk politics with like-minded people. Most of them don't believe any type of negative story about one of their own. Any time there is some type of negative story, they think it's some sort of right-wing conspiracy.
The truth of the matter is that negative stories are never good because a high percentage of the population believe that when there's smoke, there's fire. Let's take George W. Bush, for example. There were accusations out there that he used to do coke when he was young. If he did in fact do coke, you would think that the people making the accusations would have had some evidence such as a witness who do it with him or someone who saw him do it. There were no such witnesses and there was no evidence.
Even though there was no evidence that he did coke, a high percentage of people think that it is true simple because of the belief that when there's smoke, there's fire. The funny thing is that in this case, there wasn't even any real smoke. There was zero evidence. Yet people still thought it was true because people were spreading rumors about it. Did Bush do coke? I have no idea. He may have. It wouldn't shock me if he did. But the truth of the matter is there is no evidence that he did. Evidence or not, if you did a poll I'll bet that a ton of people would say that they think he did coke simply because of the rumors about it.