republican nomination last night, but he was upstaged by a carnival barker of sorts. yet romney won't disavow donald trump's birther talk. as byron york of the "washington examiner" reports, the romney campaign has no intention of distancing itself from trump. team romney believes repudiating trump would distract voters from romney's economic message. according to york, the campaign believes that sticking by trump and his race baiting will be seen as a sign of strength. meanwhile, romney's surrogates and right-wingers are trying to equate trump's racially charged antics with bill maher's stand-up act. >> i think it's as equivalent an issue as bill maher, who gave $1 million to president obama, talking with such a foul mouth about women. >> bill maher gave $1 million to a super pac on behalf of barack obama. >> the obama campaign refuses to denounce bill maher when he said extremely hateful things. so you're going to see things on both sides of the aisle. >> well, here is the difference. bill maher made a one-time donation to president obama's super pac. he doesn't campaign for obama on his weekly hbo show.