Romney Stands By Trump

Mitt Romney did not distance himself from Donald Trump, “despite the reality TV and real estate mogul’s continued skepticism about President Barack Obama’s birth certificate,” ABC News reports.

Said Romney: “You know I don’t agree with all the people who support me and my guess is they don’t all agree with everything I believe in. But I need to get 50.1 percent or more and I”m appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people.”

First Read: “What if a chief Obama surrogate/fundraiser happened to be the nation’s foremost critic of the Mormon faith, who argued that it was nothing more than a cult? Or what if the Obama campaign was holding a fundraising contest with a celebrity who believed that 9/11 was an inside job? Or even if Obama held a joint fundraiser with Bill Maher? It’s hard to differentiate those hypotheticals from Mitt Romney’s association with Donald Trump, who in recent days has said that hitting Obama with Jeremiah Wright is fair game and that there are still doubts about Obama’s place of birth.”

George Will: “I do not understand the cost benefit here. The costs are clear. The
benefit — what voter is going to vote for him because he is seen with
Donald Trump? The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is
obvious, it seems to me.”