Should Mitt Romney repudiate Donald Trump?
Mitt Romney is joining Donald Trump Tuesday evening in Las Vegas for a fundraiser that should raise $2 million, even as Trump is renewing his questioning of Obama's birthplace.
By Peter Grier / May 29, 2012
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On Tuesday, Trump doubled down, writing on his Twitter feed that Mr. Obama is “practically begging” Mr. Romney “to disavow the place of birth movement, he is afraid of it and for good reason.”
Unsurprisingly, the Obama campaign is all over this. The president’s camp released an ad Tuesday that contrasts Sen. John McCain correcting voters’ misinformation about Obama with Romney’s Trumpian embrace.
Mitt Romney, meanwhile, is waving the dispute aside. Asked about it on Monday, he said “I don’t agree with all the people who support me and my guess is they don’t all agree with everything I believe in.”
Even if Romney wanted to keep Trump at arm’s length, now’s a bad time. Tonight’s Las Vegas dinner should raise $2 million for Romney’s coffers. The pair even raffled off a seat near them to raise extra dough.
And here’s our view: Romney doesn’t have to repudiate Trump, because a political association with the “Celebrity Apprentice” chief, however tenuous, is its own punishment.
Look at it in this context: surely you’ve heard Trump rant about something or other on “Fox & Friends,” or “The View.” If you were as rich as Romney, wouldn’t you pay $2 million to avoid having dinner with that person? Of course you would.
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