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He did not hold mock impeachment hearings covered by CSPAN in the House basement—as Democratic congressman John Conyers did for the impeachment of George Bush.7

But liberals demanded that elected Republicans like Posey do more. They were called on to attack birthers and thereby pointlessly alienate people who might vote for them. Before Republicans tell birthers they’re wrong, how about the Democrats get around to telling their black constituents that O.J. did it? How about the Democrats issue an official proclamation stating that they believe Tawana Brawley was lying and her advisers were malicious frauds? How about asking the Democratic congressman who represents Durham, North Carolina, to comment on whether he believes the Duke lacrosse players were guilty?

It would be a big step if Democrats would simply stop kissing Al Sharpton’s ring. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews spends 55 minutes of his every show demanding that elected Republicans vilify the birthers. But then he invites on as an honored guest Al Sharpton—perpetrator of the Tawana Brawley hoax. Maybe Matthews could kick off the conspiracy-squelching extravaganza by denouncing Sharpton’s role in that charade.

For years, Al Sharpton, leading actor in the Tawana Brawley hoax, had veto power over all Democratic presidential candidates. If there ever comes a time when Republican presidential candidates have to get the blessing of the head of the birther movement to run, I’ll say: I’m wrong—Republicans are as crazy as the Democrats.

It’s not just that your average liberal is more likely than a conservative to believe in laughable conspiracies—although that is clearly true. The difference is, the conservative media denounce their nuts. They don’t hold hearings on deranged theories or attend the loons’ movie premieres. By contrast, the Democratic Party champions its crazies, appearing with them in public and holding congressional hearings to investigate their screwball theories.

The Democratic Party has a hand-in-glove relationship with Michael Moore, crackpot documentarian, whose Fahrenheit 9/11 is chockablock with demented conspiracy theories, including:

• the 2000 election was stolen

• the Bush family clandestinely spirited the bin Laden family out of the United States after the 9/11 attacks

• Bush went to war in Afghanistan not to avenge the 9/11 terrorist attack but to help the Unocal Corp. obtain a natural gas pipeline in Afghanistan

Again, Terry McAuliffe, then chairman of the Democratic National Committee, attended the glittering Washington, D.C., premiere of Fahrenheit 9/11 and emerged endorsing Moore’s wacko Unocal conspiracy theory. “I believe it after seeing that,” McAuliffe said. Show me former RNC chairman Michael Steele saying, “I believe the birthers” and I’ll give 90 percent of my book profits to the Hugo Chávez reelection campaign.

Other Democrats who attended Moore’s movie screening include Senators Tom Daschle, Tom Harkin, Max Baucus, Ernest Hollings, Debbie Stabenow, and Bill Nelson and Representatives Charles Rangel and Jim McDermott. Show me a half dozen Republican senators attending a birther movie premiere and I’ll say “both sides” are the Party of the Mob.

In 2004, Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark proudly accepted Moore’s endorsement. Moore was an honored guest at the Democratic National Convention that year, sitting with former president Jimmy Carter. What is the likelihood that a birther will be sitting with former President Bush at the 2012 Republican National Convention?

Democratic fundraisers have been headlined by Rosie O’Donnell—a prominent 9/11 “truther,” who believes the World Trade Center was blown up with explosives, not taken down by terrorists in airplanes. In 2003, Democratic presidential candidate and future Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean approvingly cited the left-wing fantasy that Saudi Arabia had warned Bush in advance about the 9/11 attacks. He promised a caller to National Public Radio that, if elected, he would investigate.