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Romney on Obama: 'The citizenship test has been passed'
The Boston Globe ^ | April 12, 2011 | Matt Viser

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....

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Massachusetts; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2012; birthcertificate; certifigate; ineligiblerommey; mexicanmilt; mexicanmitt; mexicans4milt; mexicans4mitt; mexicans4romney; obama; palin; rommey4dnc; romney; romney4obama; romneybigdig; romneycare; romneycare4obama; romneymarriage; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


21 posted on 04/12/2011 6:22:58 PM PDT by matt1
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To: 2banana

Attn. GOP. You have failed your test. Have a nice election without me helping you out next time.


22 posted on 04/12/2011 6:23:31 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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?


23 posted on 04/12/2011 6:23:31 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Paladin2

I think he is a blend. McCain, Dole, and Jimmy Carter. All in one nice GOP package. Who could be a better designated loser?


24 posted on 04/12/2011 6:25:59 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No one said he wasn’t a citizen Mitt, we said he couldn’t be President because he wasn’t born here.


25 posted on 04/12/2011 6:26:29 PM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: normy

Mitt and many others can’t be that stupid. They’ve got to know the difference, but they can’t go off script.


26 posted on 04/12/2011 6:27:43 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: normy

I believe that Zer0 screwed up and did loose his legal citizenship.


27 posted on 04/12/2011 6:27:45 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Amazing, as EVEN the libs jump ship, there is
old faithful GOP-Backstabber Milt Romney shiving the GOP.


28 posted on 04/12/2011 6:27:49 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. - Bene Gesserit Coda)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh shaddup Romney. We liked it when you kept out of sight and mind.


29 posted on 04/12/2011 6:28:16 PM PDT by dforest
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, and Mitts’s RINO test has been passed as well.


30 posted on 04/12/2011 6:29:52 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Romney has zero chance at getting the nomination.


31 posted on 04/12/2011 6:30:35 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

i know it sounds like i’m just whining? and in the end i’ll vote for him? but i really, really won’t.


32 posted on 04/12/2011 6:33:17 PM PDT by exist
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Citizenship definitely is a reason...it is just first in line with all of the OTHER reasons that Barry should not be president.
33 posted on 04/12/2011 6:33:51 PM PDT by Swede Girl
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To: Paladin2

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/


34 posted on 04/12/2011 6:35:32 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are .)
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To: Paladin2
Romney is apparently retarded.

Fixed it for ya!

35 posted on 04/12/2011 6:36:53 PM PDT by CAluvdubya (Don't retreat...reload!.....and no, I'm not changing my tagline! Pray for Sarah and her family)
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To: B4Ranch

Roomey, You will never be the GOP nominee for President. EVER


36 posted on 04/12/2011 6:37:48 PM PDT by scooby321
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To: B4Ranch

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)?


37 posted on 04/12/2011 6:39:03 PM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Is Romney talking about Kenya or the United States of America?

As for me, if I wanted a Kenyan President, I would move to Kenya.

38 posted on 04/12/2011 6:39:30 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Obama was a tree, what kind of a tree would he be?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


39 posted on 04/12/2011 6:40:56 PM PDT by crz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

mitt’s just warming up those kneepads like a good little establishment boy


40 posted on 04/12/2011 6:42:33 PM PDT by hyperconservative (Home of the Brave, Land of the Free)
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