Iowa GOP kingmaker flirted with birtherism {video @ link}

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Iowa GOP kingmaker flirted with birtherism {video @ link}

http://www.salon.com/news/2012_elections/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/07/20/vander_plaats_birtherism

Earlier this month I interviewed Bob Vander Plaats, the Iowa conservative activist who authored the notorious Marriage Vow signed by Michele Bachmann. (The one with the gratuitous slavery reference and talk of porn and Shariah.)

Many of Vander Plaats more extreme views are already well known (he wants to ban
Today Think Progress dug up a video showing Vander Plaats in March praising Donald Trump's "investigation" of Obama's birthplace and generally speaking approvingly of birtherism:

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