Orly Taitz Looks To Allen West For Help With Birther Crusade

California attorney Orly Taitz, matriarch of the birther movement, is hoping to bring aboard a congressional ally to her cause to prove the frequently rejected theory that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and therefore not eligible to serve as president.

Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) attracted the attention of Taitz after telling a crowd over the weekend that Obama and Democrats should take their ideas and "get the hell out of the United States of America."

"We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain't on the table," West said Saturday at a Lincoln Day Dinner in West Palm Beach. "Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America."

On Monday, Taitz, who is fresh off an unproductive attempt to force Obama from the primary ballot in Georgia, wrote a post on her blog linking to an article on West's comments and asking him to be a congressional surrogate for the birther movement.

"CONTACT ALAN WEST [sic], ASK HIM TO JOIN AS A PLAINTIFF, BRING ELIGIBILITY BEFORE CONGRESS. TALK IS CHEAP, ACTIONS MATTER," she wrote in her signature all-caps style.

While West is certainly well-known for his bombastic rhetoric, he has weighed in on the birther issue before, telling a skeptical constituent at a town hall meeting last year that he should focus on Obama's policies, not his birthplace. Later asked about his own opinions on the matter, West said he wasn't subscribing to the conspiracy theories.

"He is a citizen. He's the president. I mean, that's all I know. I am concerned about his policies," West said.

Video of West's weekend remarks below:

Comments

[sunny4]

09:32 AM on 02/02/2012

There is no way, West is going to go along with stating Obama is not a citizen! No way! Go ahead TP people, pressure West on this issue! He is using all of you! Go ahead, TP nation and TP express, pressure him. This will be the "Michael Steele " saga all over again!

[ignacio sanabria]

02:51 PM on 02/01/2012

``Life happens one day at the time,`` as Mr. Montaigne declared. Life is too short. Some people make a career out of frivolous and useless thinking. The US Constitution gives them that right.

[theiFyoU]

02:06 PM on 02/01/2012

West/Taitz 2012! The truth is way out there.

[Fanny Cole]

06:17 AM on 02/01/2012

there's one tr00l here getting ALL the pennies.

[Fanny Cole]

06:16 AM on 02/01/2012

0ily files endless frivolous lawsuits, ties up our court system and continues to disrespect president O. she should be sent back from whence she came. we neither need nor want her ilk in OUR country.

has she paid the 20K fine yet?

[bkisses]

03:59 AM on 02/01/2012

and this idiot is a lawyer she needs to seek therapy

[jasmperez]

09:09 PM on 01/31/2012

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you,
then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi

[justlw]

09:44 PM on 01/31/2012

Possibly one of the most self-righteously misused quotations ever, since by saying it, you are implicitly ridiculing your opposition.

'sides, most people I know skipped step one and moved right on to step two.

[jasmperez]

10:25 PM on 01/31/2012

You ought to to know all about self-righteosness.

[TwinX]

06:00 AM on 02/01/2012

Gandhi was referrng to a situation when one is in the right, though, not when one happens to be a conspiracy theorist peddling lies to smear a politician.

[TexasbyMigration]

12:13 PM on 01/31/2012

This is hilarious. Next up, Obama Is A Muslim, followed by Obama Is A Socialist. Get some new material, peeps. This has been debunked ad nauseum.

[jasmperez]

10:40 PM on 01/31/2012

What would it take to make you think it has not been debunked?

[rpannier]

03:52 AM on 02/01/2012

It's bee debunked by the following:
1. The 2008 Clinton Campaign,
2. Karl Rove,
3. The RNC,
4. The then-Governor of Hawaii
5. The McCain campaign
They all said that his Hawaii Birth Certificate is legit and he was not born outside the United States

[justlw]

07:30 PM on 02/01/2012

It would not be debunked if: any part of her argument stood up to examination.

None of it stands up to examination.

Thus: "this has been debunked."

[Rosie2]

09:14 AM on 01/31/2012

I'd like to see her long form birth certificate, I bet it's forged! Sorry lady, but you're irrelevant and going to stay that way, and your fifteen minutes is way over extended.

[jasmperez]

10:27 PM on 01/31/2012

She is not running for president. Read the requirements in article two of the USC. She is however, eligible to be a licensed attorney.

[johntangier]

08:11 AM on 02/01/2012

WAS SHE NOT BORM IN RUSSIA AND COMES FROM A COMMUNIST BACK GROUND?

[Barbara DeZan]

10:52 AM on 02/01/2012

She was born in Moldavia....in the former USSR. She wouldn't have a US birth certificate. She was naturalized in the early 90's.

Born Jewish, her parents immigrated to Israel in about 1980..or so.

She's accomplished, college educated, speaks 5 languages and apparently is smart as heck.

Her problem is she is mentally deranged....and craves attention.

[Rosie2]

05:15 PM on 02/02/2012

Good response!

[mikatollah]

05:22 PM on 02/02/2012

I guarantee you that my dentist/attorney doesn't speak five languages.

[Sanarae Brachelle]

07:21 AM on 01/31/2012

Why isn't she picking on Mitt, his grandfather left our country went to Mexico and had Mitt's father who was born in Mexico (in a Mormon colony, which is not U.S. soil) and to a mother born in the U.S. wow that sounds like our President's situation so start on that one Orly the Crazy Woman!

[Rosie2]

09:17 AM on 01/31/2012

A polygamist colony at that. They didn't like Americas rules, so they went to Mexico where the practice was accepted.

[jasmperez]

10:31 PM on 01/31/2012

Not that I want him to be president but he was actually born to (watch closely now) two US citizens. It matters not how they became US citizens. It matters that when Mit was born he was not a dual citizen. Its really not that hard to understand.

[TwinX]

06:11 AM on 02/01/2012

*chanelling birtherthought*

How do you know who Mitt Romeny's parents were? You haven't seen his BC.

Even if you do get to see his BC, it doesn't state what his parents citizenship was, or 'prove' who his parents really were.

How do you know that Romney Senior wasn't a Mexican Citizen, and passed that citizenship onto Romney Jnr?

What if Romney Snr was not the 'real' father of Romney Jnr? What if Romney's mother had an affair, and passed her child off as Snr's.

What if Romney Snr had an affair, and forced his wife to rear the child as her own? how do we know his (alleged) mother was *really* his mother?

*ends chanelling of birthers*

[Sanarae Brachelle]

07:12 AM on 02/01/2012

What is hard to understand is that how difficult is it to see facts. Our President is a U.S. citizen, his mother was a U.S. citizen and that is all that matters and this subject is just a waste of our tax dollars who have to pay for these judical proceedings for these cases.

[Badger33]

03:32 AM on 01/31/2012

An intellectual Colossus like Ms. Taitz should be able to succeed on her own. Why should Rep West risk his integrity?

[no tea]

08:59 AM on 01/31/2012

What "integrity" does West have??????????

[Badger33]

08:07 PM on 01/31/2012

I apparently need to brush up on my sarcasm.

[jasmperez]

10:36 PM on 01/31/2012

Well he knows how to write a budget and he's not even the POTUS. BHO does not KNOW HOW.

[Crandall Rivers]

09:12 AM on 01/31/2012

What integrity???

[Badger33]

12:32 AM on 02/01/2012

A failed attempt at sarcasm on my part.

[sobaytransplant]

03:06 AM on 01/31/2012

Orly just doesn't know when to quit, does she?

[me again]

01:13 PM on 01/31/2012

At this point, her friends should have her committed, she is a danger to herself.

[Anne Mccormick]

01:46 AM on 01/31/2012

new campaign slogan: Annoy Orly Taitz and friends re-elect President Obama.

[ResearchGirl]

01:24 AM on 01/31/2012

Surely we could find a way, as a people, to find locus to request the courts to enjoin her from further lawsuits, at least? She's a disturbed individual of no merit abusing the legal process at the taxpayer's expense.

[sobaytransplant]

03:08 AM on 01/31/2012

I agree COMPLETELY! But you know what would happen (I fear?) Her supporters would take up the efforts even if SHE can't. The fact that this is even still an issue is absolutely mind boggling!

[Rosie2]

09:18 AM on 01/31/2012

It's about attention, I guess the poor woman was attention starved. I can see why!

[Barbara DeZan]

11:01 AM on 02/01/2012

It's called:

ODS. Obama Deranged Syptom

A black guy with a funny name (that sounds sort of Saddam-like) sits in the Oval Office and is the most powerful man in the world.

Drives these people crazy and 'round the bend.

[robodawa]

01:06 AM on 01/31/2012

I like the little flip chart and her suit. She reminds me of the G I tract rejuvenation lady at the New Age Fair.