Republican Party

Calling All Birthers!

By Michael Crowley | @CrowleyTIME | April 14, 2011 | +

Why won’t Willard Mitt Romney release his certificate of live birth?

[Via Josh Green]

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  • hippooath

    He wants to make sure nothing distracts from his job growth experience as a business man where he bought up companies and diced them. And that his romneycare can’t possibly be duplicated nationally.

  • deconstructiva

    Because he accidentally destroyed it while getting rid of all paper trails re: RomneyCare™.

  • deconstructiva

    Because he’s a Terminator, model #R-2012. SkyNet doesn’t keep records of those.

  • charlieromeobravo

    That’s easy. Romney was born in the US, he was created in a plastic injection mold.

  • nflfoghorn

    “The bad news for Obama: If Romney somehow becomes the GOP nominee, he will be a serious challenger, no matter what the name on his birth certificate.”
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    I’m trembling.

  • centfan

    … And he has a triangle with a raised #1 on his back… That means he’s recyclable.

  • deconstructiva

    Because the Bedford County Patriots (sound familiar?) bought the only copy and now they won’t let anyone in to see it…
    http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2011/04/14/morning-must-reads-performance/comment-page-1/#comment-267973
    (thanks, momentomori, FTW!)

  • lepidusxvi

    Note: Detroit is closer to a foreign country than Hawaii.
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    Romney is Canadian! Why won’t he prove me wrong?!
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    And since Canada is part of the Commonwealth, I bet he has a secret British passport. Heck, he probably has an accent.

  • deconstructiva

    …and no BPA in type 1 plastics either, so he’s safe for babies.

  • Matt

    Trump and the right-wing birther crowd don’t give a darn about Mitt Romney’s birth certificate because he isn’t black. Very simple, folks…
    http://www.sunstateactivist.org

  • lepidusxvi

    I don’t think Trump is racist, I think he can read polls and realizes he’s running as a Republican and most Republicans believe this crap, so he’s capitalizing on that segment of the population.
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    If every Republican who believes Obama was not born in the US votes for Trump, then he wins the primary. Simple.
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    Heck, if every American with this insane belief votes for him in the General, he probably can star in a West Wing reality show on NBC, coming in the Winter of 2013.

  • m0mentom0ri

    “Sure. He was born in Detroit. City Hall should have it,’’
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    Not that we’re not saying that Milton wasn’t born in Detroit, just that no one can prove it either way. And besides, the real reason Romney won’t show his long form birth certificate is so that those who question his birthplace can be used to paint the opposition in a negative light.
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    Right, Freeper?

  • http://grapemusing.blogspot.com/ grape_crush

    Why won’t Willard Mitt Romney release his certificate of live birth?
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    Izzat ‘Mitt’ or ‘Milton’?
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    Me, I’m wondering where the birth certificate is for Trump’s hair. I’m sure that it’s not American in origin, probably foreign. Maybe even extraterrestrial.

  • afguy

    I have it on good authority that it’s someone’s pet ferret that expired. Last time I checked, they didn’t have live birth certificates.
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    A bill of sale from the pet store, maybe…

  • Ivy_B

    OT, but with all the Trump and Mittens articles, Rick Santorum has been somewhat neglected. He has chosen a campaign slogan. I think home schooling needs to provide a broader education.

    http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/14/rick-santorum-langston-hughes/

  • square1

    Why won’t Willard Mitt Romney release his certificate of live birth?

    I believe the dog ate it.

    Don’t worry. The dog has been punished.

  • Ivy_B

    Thanks for searching that out! I’ve been trying to remember the dog’s name and there it is.
    .
    Too bad the comments were lost in the great pre-election Swamp meltdown. We had a lot of fun with that.

  • theotherjimmyolson

    Precisely so.

  • apr2563

    In my mind, anyone who cynically uses the racism of others for his/her own purposes is a racist.

  • perrywhite1

    I hear Romney speaks French. And he spent time in France in his youth. That’s enough proof for me! If he isn’t outright a cheese-eating surrender monkey, he is at the very least from Quebec.

  • apr2563

    He can’t possibly know about the Langston Hughes connection. Sadly funny.

  • paulejb

    There’s only one solution. Anyone unable to produce a long form birth certificate should be barred from running for President of the US in 2012. That should narrow the field some.

  • kbanginmotown

    …because Romney was manufactured in a plastic injection mold in Detroit’s Jefferson Avenue plant and schooled through an alien mind meld.
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    #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement

  • troubador222

    Thats unbelievable and so typical. He should have listened to more NPR. He might have known who Hughes was.

  • hippooath

    Don’t start this cr@p and pretend you’re not a birther. Anyone talking about having to produce anything but a platform is a closet birther.

  • perrywhite1

    I’m delighted that Santorum has joined the race. I’m sure he’ll stir the debate to a frothy mix.

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