Yep. My thoughts exactly. Romney doesn't have to wade into this murky issue. Let surrogates do it. The surrogates don't really have to do much either but just ask basic questions that have never been answered. The burdon of proof is on Obama's side.
You have it exactly right. Personally avoiding the birther issue is much like Romney’s agreeing to recognize Keynesian economics as being the current administration model. He didn’t adopt it, he just acknowledged Keynesians and where they have put us in terms of short term, available solutions.
Most of us would like an absolute hard line, but as we have seen with Obama’s political success, what you say and what you do don’t necessarily have any connection and most people are too stupid to see the difference. Hopefully, Romney will have an opportunity for the doing and not disappoint us.