where a small number of voters in an increasingly small number of states are going to make the final decision. we are going to see in the next few weeks, a number of shiney little objects that pop up, like the conversation that carl was having with jamie and we saw a shiney object pop up yesterday that i think is going to drastically affect independent voters. when you have governor romney saying, hey i m a birther, donald trump has rubbed off on me that is an issue that independent voters reject, it is disgutting and challenging the president on his citizenship turns independents off. everything from partial birth abortion to mitt romney doing birther issue, the bottom line is you guys don t want to talk about obama s failed policies. so you do this distraction and division.
and raised. it is like you cannot believe it was happening when he said it. it was just it was just almost too much to watch. back with me our buddy roemer, alisha menendez, jonathan capehart. before we move to the birther issue, let s stay on choice. i want you to make the point you just made to me during the break. i made the point that we need an honest full discussion of the two lives involved here. as governor of the state, i had a daughter in her early 20s who came to me when the bills came up, and i was prepared to sign them. she talked me through it that women are involved and their lives are involved here. and you must give these kinds of exceptions at a minimum. she says, dad, i m pro-choice and i know you re pro-life, but there s some middle ground here where we can work together. don t let these bills pass. and i vetoed them. buddy, that middle ground is exactly the ground on which the personhood amendment was
he doesn t view the place of his birth as an issue in this campaign. a few months earlier in december of last year, romney s son matt romney, said this when he was asked if his father would release more tax returns. i heard someone suggest the other day that as soon as president obama releases his grades and birth certificate and sort of a long list of things. matt romney later tweeted, i repeated a dumb joke. my bad. the conclusion we can draw is mitt romney knew exactly what he was up to today. in the past, his campaign tried to keep a little daylight between romney and the birther issue. not today. here s rush limbaugh loving it up. romney test drives that line about nobody has ever had to ask to see his birth certificate. i m going to tell you, you know, my prediction for you, it s
todd akin is the republican party now. joining us now nbc s peter alexander. peter, it s interesting we re talking about todd akin s comments. obviously not as severe. mitt romney s comments today on the campaign trail when he alluded to being born in michigan now setting off, you know, basically a twitter war, statement war from the obama campaign offended by the governor s remarks believing it s alluding to the birther movement. i think you are exactly right. the intention in these days leading up to the republican convention next week was to focus on what the republicans and romney/ryan ticket believes it is strongest on, the issue of the economy, what they say is the president s mishandling of the economy. they want to be focusing on the sort of formal reintroduction or even an introduction of romney to the american people. instead they re talking about the issue of abortion, one they have shyed away from through the course of this campaign. today the birther issue, another iss
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