Posted on 04/12/2011 6:12:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Mitt Romney tonight pushed back against those in his party who are questioning President Obama's citizenship, suggesting his fellow Republicans should put their energy into more substantive issues.
"The citizenship test has been passed," Romney said tonight on CNBC's Kudlow Report. "I believe the president was born in the United States. There are real reasons to get this guy out of office...but his citizenship isn't the reason why."
Several prominent Republicans -- including Donald Trump and Sarah Palin -- have once again tried to stoke controversy by questioning Obama's citizenship even though his birth in Hawaii has been confirmed by officials in the state.
Romney said he would welcome Trump into the Republican race, while sidestepping a question whether he views the business mogul as a chief rival.
"He's a new face and a new voice in the process," Romney said of Trump, who is leading in some recent national polls. "My view is, come on in the water's fine. The more the merrier."
Romney, in his first interview since announcing yesterday that he was formally exploring a presidential bid, also was asked several times about his biggest vulnerability: the Massachusetts health care plan. Today is the fifth anniversary of the law, which was used as a template for President Obama's national plan -- one that is despised by most Republicans.
Romney repeated his defense of the Massachusetts law, while arguing that Obama was usurping states rights by imposing a federal plan....
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this is unreal! can someone please shed some light on why republicans would defend obama, of all people! so far there’s rove, beck, o’reilly, the coulter fiasco on o’reilly, limbaugh, etc. all supporting obama AGAINST conservatives and others who simply want to see obama’s BC. what’s in it for them? in fact, there’s little difference between them and chris matthews, eugene robinson and the others. hannity is the only fox person who even mentions the BC issue in a reasonable tone.
Attn. GOP. You have failed your test. Have a nice election without me helping you out next time.
We’re being had.
When Trump first started doing the ridiculous apprentice shows, my first thought was, who was able to buy a billionaire to make him perform like that? Everyone I knew said, “Oh, he’s enjoying himself, he can do anything he wants.”
Now suddenly ONLY Trump recently started speaking “Birther” loudly, and erstwhile and so-called conservatives are falling all over themselves to denounce Trump and defend Hussein from crazy ol’ Donald.
Win The Future — Who is ORCHESTRATING all this? Does Soros and his new anti-Fox hirees control them all now?
I think he is a blend. McCain, Dole, and Jimmy Carter. All in one nice GOP package. Who could be a better designated loser?
No one said he wasn’t a citizen Mitt, we said he couldn’t be President because he wasn’t born here.
Mitt and many others can’t be that stupid. They’ve got to know the difference, but they can’t go off script.
I believe that Zer0 screwed up and did loose his legal citizenship.
Oh shaddup Romney. We liked it when you kept out of sight and mind.
Yeah, and Mitts’s RINO test has been passed as well.
Romney has zero chance at getting the nomination.
i know it sounds like i’m just whining? and in the end i’ll vote for him? but i really, really won’t.
This website has a video of the Ambassadort of Kenya saying the Barack Obama was born in Kenya.
http://www.personalliberty.com/feature-video/not-natural-born-truth-matters/
Fixed it for ya!
Roomey, You will never be the GOP nominee for President. EVER
Isn’t this comment by mitt the equivalent of john mclame’s comment about nobama (to poorly paraphrase) that nobama would make a great president and we should have nothing to fear? Just why don’t these RINO freaks absent themselves from any sort of public life (all the way down to dog-catcher)?
As for me, if I wanted a Kenyan President, I would move to Kenya.
Well, he couldnt help it anymore. He was all nice and quiet and all. But he couldnt help himself and stepped right into it. The man is as big a fake as anything I have seen..well maybe the Huck and him are brothers. They both let their mouth run over their brains.
mitt’s just warming up those kneepads like a good little establishment boy
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