DANA MILBANK: The birthers eat their own. Milbank bends himself into a pretzel attempting to blame the Republican orthodoxy for the 'birthers' and the 'birthers' for racism.

The 'birthers' are wrong, but at least they are consistent in their insistence that eligibility for election the presidency and vice presidency be restricted to children born on American territory of parents who are U.S. citizens at the time of birth. Remember that they challenged Sen. McCain's Republican nomination on the grounds that he was born in Panama.

As for the implied racism charge, it's hard to believe that Milbank doesn't understand that most of the non-'natural citizen' charges (Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley) would be levied against fairly recent immigrants, most of whom are likely of non-caucasian origin.