No one ever said he was an illegitimate candidate (which
tea partiers STILL say about Obama), we just said he shouldn't be in the race ie the electorate will soundly reject him when the time comes
In fact, the
Tea Partiers» online organizing may be more dangerous to Republicans than Democrats, as in the 2009 special election in upstate New York that swung a seat to the Dems for the first time in over a century (as an analogy, Joe Lieberman is
still in office despite Ned Lamont, and Dems who want health care reform are now paying the price for his challenge).