If he had said the Club can make its own decisions the next question would have been "so are you saying it's OK to deny members based on race too"?
Romney didn't allow himself to be trapped. One point in his favor IMO.
Every leftist media loon question can be a trap but you don’t have to play into it with the assumptions of the left.
“I’m runnning for President and as President we will enforce the laws passed by Congress. The civil rights acts have settled issues of public accomodation as they apply for race, ethnicity, religion and gender. It would be against the concepts of this nation’s seperation of powers for an executive to introduce his personal preferences into executing the laws of the land.”
That’s how it should have been answered.