Remember this the next time some Democrat screeches about how Birthers are a nefarious threat to the Republic and all that it stands for:

Pennsylvania Democrats helped gather signatures to put a birther on the ballot in the race to replace Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak.
At issue is the role played by the campaign of state Rep. Bryan Lentz, the Democratic nominee in the open 7th District, which allegedly provided petition-gathering assistance to Jim Schneller, a tea party activist who once filed suit against the state of Pennsylvania demanding that President Obama present his birth certificate.
According to documents from the secretary of state’s office provided by the campaign of Lentz’s GOP opponent, former U.S. Attorney Pat Meehan, Schneller needed 4,200 signatures to make the ballot as the American Congress Party candidate—and 3,800 of those were collected by Democrats. The Democrats who helped gather the signatures include Colleen Guiney, the chairwoman of the Swarthmore Democratic Party and a Lentz supporter; Nicholas Allred, who works for the Swarthmore College Democrats; and Rocco Polidoro, among others, according to secretary of state filings.

Dave Weigel, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

Why would a Democrat need to pull a stunt like this? Oh, right: “An internal poll from the Pat Meehan campaign obtained by PoliticsPA shows the Republican congressional candidate leading Democratic opponent Bryan Lentz by 21 points, 47 percent to 26 percent, largely on the strength of a nearly 2-to-1 advantage in name ID.”

Now that Democrats have helped get a Birther on the ballot in Pennsylvania, I don’t want to hear another word from anybody in that party about how terrible they are.