"Dear Birthers,

"Stop!

"Sincerely,

"Serious Conservatives."

I've held fire for the last several months as I've watched the so-called "Birther" movement gain steam.

At first it was amusing, like playing a drinking game -- you know, like taking a shot every time Chris Matthews explains why he insists on pronouncing the former Vice President's name "CHEE-knee."

Mike Allen's piece in Friday's Politico -- "Conservative group offers support for $2M" -- roiled conservative waters in Washington and led some to wonder if American Conservative Union Chairman David A. Keene would leave the post he's held for a quarter-century.

Don't hold your breath.

Despite the fact that major conservative blogs and media outlets like National Review's The Corner, Erick Erickson at RedState, Michelle Malkin, Outside the Beltway, Right Wing News, and Hot Air went crazy over the story on Friday -- many of them calling for Keene's ouster -- that outcome is highly unlikely.

By the way, arguing against my last post, there actually was a president who had less experience in major public office before winning the presidency than would Sarah Palin, were she to win the White House after only two and a half years as governor -- Woodrow Wilson, who was elected president in 1912 after having been elected governor of New Jersey for the first time in 1910.

Of course, Wilson benefited from the split in the Republican Party -- former President Teddy Roosevelt chose to challenge incumbent president/Roosevelt successor William Howard Taft for the GOP nomination at the 1912 GOP national convention, and, failing to win, had left the GOP to form the Bull Moose Party to contest for the presidency in the general election.