On Friday in New Hampshire, Mitt Romney’s son, Matt Romney, suggested that his father would release his tax returns when President Obama released his birth certificate and college grades. Romney has since backed off his remarks, but the Obama campaign is swooping in to rile up donors with his birther lapse.
“This is how the Romney campaign thinks it’s going to win the Republican primary: by pandering to the dead-ender fringe of extremists who still question where the President was born,” Obama campaign manager Jim Messina wrote in an e-mail appeal to supporters. “We can’t make them rewrite their talking points. But we can drive up the cost of this kind of politics. There can be no looking the other way — when they do this, you’ve got to do something about it.”
