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Mitt Romney’s Son Makes A Birther Joke On The Campaign Trail

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Move over, Huntsman girls, there’s a new embarrassing presidential candidate child in town, and he’s itching to steal the crown, apparently. While father Mitt Romney campaigns for next week’s Iowa caucus, his son Matt and some of his brothers are stumping for him in New Hampshire. Asked about his father’s tax returns, Matt tried to flip the issue around on President Obama by, er… demanding to see his birth certificate. Does he mean this one, by any chance?

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The Hill has the story on the event, at which Matt Romney was joined by several brothers, one who immediately recognized the soundbite trainwreck happening before his eyes.

When asked whether his father would release his tax returns, which Mitt Romney has said he was unlikley [sic] to do despite a tradition of presidential nominees doing so, Matt Romney tried to make light of the question.

“He has not said that he will not do it, he has also not said that he will. I think it’s a matter of time until that issue comes up because I think everybody has to get a chance to do that. And so I don’t know the answer to that, I’m not sure if he knows the answer to that,” Matt Romney said.

“But he’ll do everything that he needs to. He’s certainly not afraid of anything, not hiding anything — you know, 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, then maybe he’d do it.”

Tagg Romney quickly interrupted his brother: “That was not my dad saying that.”

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Tagg Romney then took control of the answer, and Matt Romney agreed with his comment that it was not his father who was suggesting that the President release his birth certificate. Whether that means the damage has or has not been done to Romney at this point is up in the air, and certainly what his sons say is not as damning as what, say, Rep. Michele Bachmann or Donald Trump were saying when the birther controversy was still a newsy entity with some mild political relevance. And Matt Romney did appear to be joking and not actually demanding to see the birth certificate, and with the addition of “grades” may have just been wracking his brain in real time for any corroborating examples to his joke and found the worst possible one. At the very least, however, it certainly doesn’t look good for the Romney campaign at a time when the presumed frontrunner needs as streamlined and functioning campaign as possible.

The clip of Matt Romney’s birth certificate comments below via CNN:

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  • Anonymous

    will the cons come out enmasse and force mitt to show is tax records???
    can you imagine if Obama denied that???
    OM FREAKING G…
    NO FREAKING WAY…..

    CONSERVATIVES WILL HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN A MAN WHO IS EVERYTHING THEY LOVE–
    1. KILLED BIN LADEN
    2. NO NEW ATTACKS
    3. ECONOMY BETTER THAN 2009
    4. IMPLEMENTED CONSERVATIVE HEALTH PLAN SUPPORTED BY TOP CANDIDATES
    5.MORE TAX CUTS THAN ANY PRESIDENT IN HISTORY
    6. LOWEST CORPORATE TAX RATES IN 50 YEARS
    or they can vote for …
    1. John Kerry clone without
    a. as much money
    b. political experience
    c. WAR MEDALS
    2. THE ONLY PERSON WHO ACTUALLY IMPLEMENTED OBAMA CARE AND IS ON RECORD SAYING IT SHOULD BE NATIONAL…
    remember–mitt claims state can make their own choice..OBAMA HAS ALREADY MADE THIS PART OF HIS HEALTH CARE PLAN–IF ANY STATE CAN COME UP WITH A BETTER PROGRAM—THEY CAN IMPLEMENT IT…

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Is this one of the precious Romney nest of purebred ChickenHawk son’s who do their Mormon missions, but NEVER serve in the military?

    Romney’s Achilles heel is his purebred ChickenHawk pedigree.  

    Romney
    counter-protested against Viet Nam anti-war protesters and was a big supporter
    of the war, so long as he had his two school deferments and a three year
    ministerial deferment which all Mormons got. 
    Not only did he not
    serve and avoided the draft with deferments while finding time for a
    Mormon mission, all five of his sons avoided service after 911 so they
    could do the important work of helping daddy become president.  They too
    all served Mormon missions.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

    Romney is a special breed of ChickenHawk! 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1185457566 Jd Fuller

    My brother never served in the military. I on the other hand did. Does that make me more noble than my brother?! No it doesn’t. This is a pathetic argument made by small minded people. Get a life.

  • Anonymous

    Sigh

    Media shrugs when Obama golfs with his buddy who was busted for prostitution and mediaite loves that story and finds it refreshing; but a kid makes a joke – and voila!  It is headlined big bad news for Mitt!

    Thanks Frances.  Another good solid chuckle while visiting this board.

    Sigh

  • Anonymous

    You seem to have a preoccupation with “Chicken Hawks”. Bird watch much?

  • Anonymous

    No real American will vote for Barry.  Only those who support:
    1 – Killing 22 Navy SEALS as part of his deal with Pakistan for Obama
    2 – Cop killers
    3 – First downgrade in history
    4 – 76% black unemployment

  • Anonymous

    Charles supports chicken hawk Obama.

  • Anonymous

    You like Obama, do you, unreal Joe?

  • Anonymous

    Thank you.

  • Anonymous

    ya i have an affinity for strong honest people..

    i am from the midwest…
    we like it when people do what they say-or at least try ..
    we are not much for 2 faced flippity floppers who say what they have to to get by..
    but again…just have a thing for strength and integrity~

  • Anonymous

    Get me a barf bag, quick!

  • SouthernYankee

    It wouldn’t be pathetic but republicans are usually the ones who say that. My father-in-law, father and husband  served honorably in Wars and conflicts and all retiring from the military.   Politicians are so good at sending other people’s children (there are a few exceptions) to do their dirty work it makes a persons head spin.  I don’t respect a man like Romney getting deferments to stay out of war.   Many did just  during VN time frame.  I use to work for the military during that time frame and you could see who actually went off and who didn’t.  People like Cheney got 5 deferments yet he was thrilled to send soldiers to kill in Iraq.  Everybody back then knew if they got a deferment they knew the right people to get out.   War is not equal.   I happen to be a strong believer in the draft so every man makes the sacrifices  that our soldiers like you and other are doing today.  Don’t ask people to go shopping and spend money.  It should have been a moment of we need you please enlist.  There are many who would have.  People don’t have a damn clue what soldiers and their families are sacrificing everyday.  But I will respect you because you served and made the sacrifice and the country should be greatful.  Oh by the way I would like to get one thing straight many soldiers are democrats too.  All you have to do is see the crowds when the president is surrounded by soldiers.  My soldier family members were all democrats and proud to wear the uniform.  I just would like to let people know we all don’t tow the republican line.

  • Anonymous

    What happen? did you just see the tape of Michelle Bachman scissoring  Sarah Palin? I’d need a barf bag also… 

  • Anonymous

    How do you feel about Gitmo? The Patriot Act? “Spying” on Americans? Etc.

    All things that Obama said he was against, but has either continued or expanded.

  • Anonymous

    hey @tina tampon, heres a grand idea! Don’t like what mediate writes? GTFO then? Why the hell are you still here? Go away! There are tons of sites that will spew the same vile drivel you agree with so much, so go hang out there, with those ding bats. and stop complaining about mediate, if you dont like it, GOOOOO! I’m sure theblaze is full of pingaheads like you… 

  • Anonymous

    hey–mitt has not won the nomination yet…
    hold your lunch~

    Punxsutawney Phil

  • Anonymous

    Wonder what people would say if Michelle made a couple of cult jokes about mormons?

  • Grimmy

    Tagg is proof that the a$$hole does not fall far from the tree.

  • Anonymous

    We thank your family for their service,

  • Anonymous

    Thanks longdrawn!  I like it here, I love to laugh.  What is so bad about what mediaite writes?  I’m simply referring to their own articles and getting a chuckle.  What do you have against happiness?  Why do you lefties love to hate?

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    No, I don’t, but in the interest of fairness, there is ample evidence that Barry Soetoro served the CIA in the AF-PAK frontier in 1980 with Zbig’s newly formed mujahaddin.

    Somewhere, there is a pic of Barry Soetoro and Tim Osman in the mujahaddin camps together.
    Here is a pic of Zbig and Tim Osman from the camps.
    http://tipggita32.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/osamaandzbignew1981.jpg?w=432&h=295

    Here is Zbig charging the Mujajids:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJTv2nFjMBk

    Soetoro was in Zbig’s Russian studies program at that time at Columbia, although no one ever remembers him being on campus.

  • Isabel Gonzalez

    Joke, really, I did not see where he framed it as a joke.  I think the Romney campaign knew full well that the idiot son was putting it out there.  Just say it then apologize, all is well.  What a bunch of rich brats!

  • Anonymous

    If President Obama wants credit for killing Bin Laden, Donald Trump and the Romney family want to see a copy of the death certificate!

  • Anonymous

    Give em hell Tina!

  • Anonymous

    Give em hell Tina!

  • http://www.facebook.com/jas7751 Jay Aubrey

    Barry Soetoro has been in battle.  Battling against Capitalism and the US Constitution.  Bottom line….Barry resents America.

  • Anonymous

    no hate, just always see you complaining about Mediate, so I wanted to ask why the you come here?  I’m all for happiness, the problem is that right wingers are incapable of it, with out some one suffering that their expense. Thats what you guys call happiness, stepping on others and laughing. Thankfully, I understand Karma, and I know that if not now, at some point, you right wingers will get whats coming to you. 

  • Anonymous

    i am against all of that…
    i did not say the guy was perfect..
    we libs are not big on zealotry..
    we like our president but we do not think he is god like the palin and bush supporters do with their ‘great leaders’..

    but hey–you find me that perfect person and i will vote for them -ok?

  • Anonymous

    Matt and Tagg Romney explain why Mitt was once a strong supporter of abortion.

    Mitt was hoping to make it retroactive.

  • Anonymous

    And here I thought context matters; he didn’t make a birther joke, he referred to something someone else said about a bunch of information that Team Obama has been allowed to hide from the public,including all his college records.

    Context counts, or at least it counts in SOME mediaite articles.  Picking and choosing again.

    Chuckle, chuckle.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jas7751 Jay Aubrey

    That said though….where are Barry’s College Records and any of his writings when he was in Law School as the smartest man in the World?  Legitimate questions, unless of course you are part of his Cult.

  • Anonymous

    unrealjoe has an affinity for effeminate men.

  • Anonymous

    Liar!! 

  • Anonymous

    And why hasn’t Obama told us when he stopped beating his wife!?!?!?

  • Henry Wood

    Whur duhr burf sertifikut?

  • Anonymous

    Remember, according to Mitt Romney, his 5 sons are serving the country by going to business school and working on his campaign instead of fighting the GOPs wars in Iraq.  And, now we can add questioning the President’s citizenship to their list of patriotic deeds.  Boy I bet Willard is proud, almost as proud as the day he made his first million by throwing people out of work and selling their company out from under them.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    A Purebred Mormon ChickenHawk

    A blue ribbon ChickenHawk named Mitt
    Used every type deferment he could get
    To stay out of Viet Nam
    And avoid serving Uncle Sam
    For he supported the war while he avoided it.

    Mitt’s daddy, George, was a purebred ChickenHawk
    Born in Mexico of good Mormon polygamous stock
    But when the Mexican war began
    These Mormons up and ran
    To join the rest of their Salt Lake City flock.

    Mitt counter-protested those who stood against the war
    ‘Cause daddy taught him how avoid serving in The Corps
    Then a Mormon mission to France
    Insured there was no chance
    That little Mitt would have to face the bloody gore.

    When Mitt next became a world class neocon
    He made sure his five sons would carry on
    The Romney ChickenHawk bloodline
    With that yellow Mormon spine
    By avoiding fighting the followers of the Quran.

    So the next time you hear those loud war squawks
    When Mitt stands to give his Presidental talks
    Remember there’s nary a draftee
    In Mitt’s Mormon pedigree
    ‘Cause he’s from a line of purebred ChickenHawks!
    _________________________
    Charles Ulysses Feney

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

     Mitt’s pappy, George, was born on a POLYGAMOUS colony in Mexico, which makes Mitt’s “Natural Born Citizenship” very doubtful!

  • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

    Fact: all the of Romney men can form into a super Romney, much like Voltron or the Destructocons from the Trasformers. Pretty neat.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.schinella Tony Schinella

    Here is the original story that I produced, not CNN, which seems to have lifted my video with no attribution at all: http://patch.com/A-pM4c

  • News Of The World

    Bagger alert!  Bagger alert!

  • Anonymous

    Do chicken hawks taste more like chickens or more like hawks.

  • Anonymous

    paranoid, dishonest and stupid, change to heavy gauge lead foil

  • Anonymous

    More like you seem to be part of some paranoid ignorant cult of Obama haters, just noticing.

  • Anonymous

    Always with the aspersions-casting on the masculinity of commenters they disagree with….*yawn* What else ya got? Gonna trot out the usual ‘Your mama shoulda aborted you’…..’You live in your parents’ basement’…..ho hum, just another day on Mediaite with the rabid wingnut haters….

  • Anonymous

    I guess the fruit didn’t fall too far from the tree. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    are you seriously this paranoid?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Is that you, Donald?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    says the party of secessionists like Perry and the Palins.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    except that Obama released his birth certificate – TWICE.
    Facts don’t matter to these wingnuts – they just keep on lying.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Does Mittens still think his sons are being more patriotic for riding around in his campaign limo, rather than serving in the Bush war he supported?

  • Love of Country

    We’re ALL concerned about the Flee Baggers so just calm down, Scooter.

  • Anonymous

    The kid, like a lot of racists these days, didn’t have the stones to spout his racism in a direct manner. Instead he goes, ‘Well I heard someone said…’

  • Anonymous

    Obimbo, strong and honest? You’ve got to be kidding!

  • Anonymous

    So does Mooshel.

  • Anonymous

    Wasn’t that a military exercise?

  • Anonymous

    If it’s a pathetic argument, why did you mention it?

  • Anonymous

    Just an effete little punk.

  • Anonymous

    SEAL Team 6.

  • Anonymous

    lets just say–
    you will not see him cry and you will never hear him say anything as stupid as ‘obimbo’…
    but i guess that is obvious..
    dumbasses..wow~

  • Anonymous

    Obimbo, strong and honest, really? Wow?

  • Anonymous

    I put much more stock in SEAL Team 6 verification than anything coming out of  Obimbo’s mouth.

  • Anonymous

    Take a good look at that birth-certificate. Let us know what you find wrong with it.

  • Anonymous

    Presume much!

  • Anonymous

    Your one of the mentally challenged, aren’t you, realjoe?  We can get you help son, no problem.  ObambiCare will just put you before the Death Panel.

  • Anonymous

    Haven’t had much experience in life, have you, Joe?  Or does your mom not know your on the computer again?

  • Anonymous

    Not only are you livs not big on zealotry, your also not big on intelligence apparently.

  • Anonymous

    Joe, If Jim Jones was still around, I bet you would have drank the koolaid, wouldn’t you?  Are you old enough to know who Jim Jones is?

  • Anonymous

    That’s what I was thinking, another bisexual like Obama!

  • Anonymous

    LOL, that is the best laugh I have had in years!  Obama working for the CIA in AF-PAK frontier, lol, now I love jokes, lol.  Yes, I could see the skinny Unmannly bisexual, Obambi, fighting in the desert, lol!  Just more lies that Obambi would love idiots to believe!  Like I said, his supporters are now all mentally challenged or AntiAmericans.  Anyone with half a brain would never back this idiot!

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    I know, I know… But it’s a family thing. He’s third generation CIA. Mamma with that Ford Foundation micro loan front, Granny as a loan officer launderer, and a movement pattern that allows noother conclusion.

  • Mk20 mod0

    Like? He had Obama’s face tattooed on his ass!

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