Mitt Romney wows a crowd in Michigan by joking, “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate.”
Stay classy, Mitt.
Update: Fans of Mitt Romney’s sense of humor may recall this knee-slapper from earlier in the year:
“I have a few connections with the state of Wisconsin,” said Romney, who was hosting his first tele townhall with Wisconsin voters ahead of next week’s primary. “One of the most humorous, I think, relates to my father. You may remember that my father, George Romney, was president of an automobile company called American Motors, and they made Ramblers and Jeeps, and they had a factory in Michigan and they had a factory in Kenosha, WI, and another one in Milwaukee, WI.”
“And as the president of the company he decided to close the factory in Michigan, and move all the production to Wisconsin,” Romney explained. “Now, later he decided to run for Governor of Michigan and so you can imagine that having closed the factory and moved all the production to Wisconsin was a very sensitive issue to him, for his campaign, and I recall at one parade where he was going down the streets, he was lead by a band, and they had a high school band that was leading each of the candidates, and his band did not know how to play the Michigan fight song.”
“They only knew how to play the Wisconsin fight song, so every time they would start playing ‘On, Wisconsin,’ ‘On, Wisconsin,’ my dad’s political people would jump up and down and try to get them to stop because they didn’t want people in MI to be reminded that my dad had moved production to Wisconsin,” said Romney, letting out a laugh. “None the less, I appreciate the chance to be with you this morning.”
Further update: I think there’s a lot of truth to this observation:
I suspect many Republicans who continue to subscribe to the birther lunacy do so because it bothers liberals and because it’s an act of symbolic defiance of a president they dislike.