Rick Perry is proposing an optional 20% flat income tax this week, but the Texas governor seems to be scuttling whatever opportunity he may have had to re-establish himself as a credible conservative challenger to Mitt Romney by toying with conspiracy theories about the president that were long ago put to rest.

Perry was tripped up by the birther “issue” during an interview with Parade magazine that was released this weekend: 

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