“Hokum. The Romney campaign hasn’t turned up any news reports from ‘63 that say Romney and King marched together.”
Incorrect. There are no less than 5 that state that they marched together. You’d consider Harper’s Magazine reputable?
http://www.harpers.org/search?q=romney+martin+luther+king+march+
“When the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King marched in Detroit three years ago, Romney marched with him.”
There are also 4 history books that cite them walking together.
From “Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence”
“Mayor Cavanagh, Governor George Romney, and Walter Reuther were among the prominent whites marching with Revered King. The size of the march surprised everyone. About 50,000 were expected, and at least triple that number showed up.”
From “A Nation Divided: The 1968 Presidential Election”
“[Governor Romney] also marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. on one occasion and fought for an open housing law in Michigan.
David Broder’s book , The Republican Establishment, also cites them as marching together
Also from Detroit Perspectives: Crossroads and Turning
“Between 150,000 and 200,000 people participated, 90% of them black. Mayor Cavanagh, Governor George Romney, and Walter Reuther were among prominent whites marching with Reverend King.”
I will further note that these sources were readily available to the MSM.
Instead of actually doing the research, they just slandered Romney and left it up to him to clean up their mess.
Lovely to see others from supposedly the same movement dogpiling in.
Did you even read this stuff? The Harper's Magazine is from February '67, gets the date wrong (it was closer to four years earlier than three), and probably apes Broder (or maybe Broder aped him) in confusing the Grosse Pointe march with the King one 6 days earlier. As I said before, the news reports from 1963 firmly establish that George Romney did not march with King on June 23, and King was in New Jersey on June 29 when Romney was at Grosse Pointe. From the similarity in phrasing your "history" books are just aping each other, and copying and repeating an error does not turn the error into truth.
You Romney people are giving me flashbacks to the Clinton years. I know MoveOn.org is already taken, but maybe you fellows could make a bid on MoveOn.com?