saying citizenship. what about that? to your point, i think it s sad. i think that donald trump could actually be asset, as crazy as that sounds, if he were to talk about jobs or the economy, and say romney is the right guy for this, he has a huge following. instead, he s being a huge distraction. but he does have the ability to be an asset. but the reason he has a huge following, let s not forget, because he rode this ridiculous race baiting conspiracy theory to the top of the gop polls a year ago. that s where his following comes from. and here s an example that was pointed out by byron york. you ve got john mccain standing up to radio talk show host bill cunningham when he repeatedly used obama s full name. at some point the media will quit taking sides in this thing and maybe start covering barack hussein obama. mccain disavowed cunningham s racial antics and the romney campaign believes that that made mccain look weak. errol? well, look, the reality is if mccain had
up the party to appeal to minorities, to appeal to latinos. they have obviously decided to double down on a strategy of appealing to people who are disenchanted with the democratic party after civil rights. and that includes the voter suppression laws, what s going on in florida. they ve decided, rather than trying to broaden their appeal, they re going to restrict the people who can vote. abby, your father spoke out against druonald trump i was surprised he wasn t invited to the event, by the way. here he is attacking trump at an event. here it is. i m not going to kiss his ring or any other part of his anatomy. this is not about ratings for donald trump, this is about jobs for the american people. i don t like to see the dumbing down of american politics. so the question is, abby, is there room for moderates in the republican party these days? that s the question. i think we need to see what the independents think of all of this, just nonsense. are they looking at thi
unintentional comedy. donald trump is hilarious, but he doesn t mean to be. that s another important distinction there. abby, it sure seems like it s part of the talking point for the republicans. this is all strategical. i mean, honestly, romney is not saying anything because he can t. he has to wi nevada. that s the bigger issue here. the biggest voting group is casinos, mormons, and donald trump is a big part of that. no matter what donald trump says, romney can t say anything. but that s ridiculous. at some point, if he s going to demonstrate he can be president of the united states, he has to be able to stand up to a loser like donald trump. what is he going to do if he s in the white house and he can t stand up to donald trump? with what s that going to look like? the super pac conundrum. you can tell a billionaire, but you can t tell them much. to go to donald trump and say, this isn t helping us, this isn t our strategy, this isn t the talking point of the day, he isn t
however, here s mitt romney yesterday, hours before his multi-million dollar fund-raiser with donald trump in las vegas. i was speaking with one of these business owners who owns a couple of restaurants in town. and he said, you know, i d like to change the constitution. i m not sure i can do it, he said, but i d like to have a provision in the constitution that in addition to the age of the president and the citizenship of the president and the birthplace of the president being set by the constitution, i d like it also to say that the president has to spend at least three years working in business before he can become president of the united states. i think he said citizenship, didn t he? even more stunning than romney s wink-wink, nudge-nudge to the birther crowd, surrogate donald trump won t stop with the birther talk. here he is calling in to the mother ship, fox news. i can tell you that this is not an issue, despite what he says, that president obama likes. this is hittin
wisconsin, but bill clinton might. a new poll puts barrett even with scott walker. another poll puts barrett behind. john nichols has the latest. mitt romney joins donald trump and blows the birther dog whistle. in addition to the age of the president and the citizenship of the president, i would like it to also say that the president has to spend at least three years working in business before the president can become the president of the united states. and even fox defenders are saying fox news is rotten to the core. instead of concentrating on job creation, president obama has concentrated on growing government. you will not believe the new fox and friends attack on the president. good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. it s been less than 24 hours since mitt romney secured the republican nomination for president. now we know how he plans to win the white house.