My favorite commentator on Twitter, PourMeCoffee, nailed the whole “birther” nonsense. (You know, the “birthers” are these paleoconservatives who deny that President Barack Obama was born in the U.S. and therefore is not eligible to be President under the Constitution.) PourMeCoffee compares these nut jobs with the late Betty Hill, who believed that an outer space alien arrived in a U.F.O. and abducted her and her husband.

So who are these nutjobs who aren’t sure that Obama is a citizen or are certain that he isn’t one? A new poll from Daily Kos/Research2000 out today indicates that 11 percent of respondents fall in that camp. These folks are largely Republicans. In fact, according to the poll, 58 percent of Republicans believe that Obama isn’t a citizen or aren’t sure of his citizenship. As Markos Moulitsas wrote, “once again, Republicans find themselves outside the American mainstream. And reality.”

And the GOP wonders why it’s the minority party?

As a Virginian, I am so proud that Texas doesn’t have a monopoly on electing batshit crazy nut jobs in office, with Goodlatte, Virginia can claim one, too! After all, Goodlatte’s friends with the Teabaggers. He’s got a history of courting the votes of the crazies.

But what about the editorial pages of Virginia’s newspapers. Why are they silent on Rep. Goodlatte’s birtherism? Hello, Roanoke Times? Where are you? Are you waiting for former Virginia GOP Rep. Virgil Goode to show up at Congressman Tom Perriello’s next Town Hall to harass him like this wacko in Delaware did to GOP Congressman Mike Castle?