Romney won't repudiate Trump on birther issue

[cali]

Associated PressBy STEVE PEOPLES | Associated Press – 2 hrs 28 mins ago


SAN DIEGO (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney isn't taking a position on supporter Donald Trump's return to the controversy over where President Barack Obama was born.

Romney said Monday evening that while he doesn't agree with all the people who support him, he appreciates their help to get him at least 50.1 percent of the vote in November.

Romney's comments come about 24 hours before appearing at fundraiser in Las Vegas that Trump is hosting.

Earlier this week Trump again stated that Obama was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia. That view has been debunked repeatedly. Obama released his long-form birth certificate in April 2011 showing he was born in Hawaii while Trump weighed entering the Republican primary race.

http://news.yahoo.com/romney-wont-repudiate-trump-birther-issue-003919355.html

[NavyDavy]

1. Romney and trump two morons from the same idiot tree......

[no_hypocrisy]

2. A variable not being discussed: The bloviating ignoramus can use the media

for revenge if Mitt denounces Trump on any issue. While Mitt doesn't have to endorse whatever Trump says, he also can't criticize and/or condemn his statements as well. Trump doesn't care who's in the White House as his love is media attention.

[emulatorloo]

10. Romney wants the birther vote. End of story.

[spanone]

3. i suspect romney agrees with trump.

[cali]

4. oh, I don't.

but I do think he's a coward and is afraid of repudiating Trump because of the circus that would engender.

[spanone]

5. it's the only conclusion i can come to. it's like going to a kkk fundraiser.

if you take their money and appear at their rally....

[cali]

6. I see no evidence that Mitt believes in anything other than

that he believe his destiny is to be President.

[bigtree]

7. Romney's perfectly fine

. . . with accepting support from Trump because he knows a significant portion of his republican base has invested their opposition in this absurd claim. I suspect that many of them realize it's a lie, but are just as satisfied with using the claim as a wedge -- politically and otherwise -- between their own ilk and those they choose to abhor.

Romney may well be intelligent enough to realize it's a false claim, but he's even more of a cretin than the ones who actually believe it. It's one thing for some citizen out in the country to go around spreading the nonsense that they don't actually believe. It's another more pernicious thing for a presidential candidate to accept his surrogates dividing Americans on the basis of what he knows to be false. It's an abomination to perpetuate such a lie as this one; a lie that seeks to divide Americans against each other and our democratically elected president with what is, essentially, a racist and xenophobic appeal. You can just smell the stench of the administration this man would lord over. His willingness to ally with and accept as surrogates, those who make it clear they intend to actively promote this abominable lie, reveals an irreparable stain on whatever integrity and legitimacy this man ever had or hoped to attain. He is a horrid and sick man.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. Romney is too soft to be President

He hates confrontation. He has no stomach for the job of President. He says he doesn't agree with all his supporters but he doesn't have the nerve to mention them by name. How will he react when it isn't Trump but a foreign leader who says something crazy with harmful intent? Will he wimp out and say "I don't agree with every foreign leader"?

Incidentally, I don't think Romney disagrees with Trump, or Limbaugh, or Nugent. I just think his lack of response to their statements should be played up by Democrats as a sign of weakness and softness, rendering him unfit for office.

[LynneSin]

9. So I'm guessing if the head of the KKK or Neo-Nazi want to do a fundraiser with Romney...

he'll accept because it's all about getting that 50.1% vote

[emulatorloo]

11. i wouldn't be surprised.