romney aide. the aide indicated romney could change his positions after the primaries for the fall campaign. his comment, that romney can shake it up like an etch a sketch and start all over again is shaking up the republican presidential race. let s bring in our news nation political panel. radio talk show host, and erin back with us for real clear politics. steve, i ll start off with you here. it s youngedy young jokes. i want to play with rachel maddow said last night about mitt romney and how this plays into what we all know some of his critics say about him. let me play it. this is hard to talk about in the day to day news context. there are such low expectations for politicians being truthful and because the word lie is underused and overused to the point where everybody is a little touchy about it. the degree to which mr. romney lies all the time about all sorts of stuff and cut care when
journalist to have pushed this? what do you think about this birth certificate issue? i mean it has not been my main issue, but it kind of does get a little odd here after a while. can t they just produce it? let s say that the people you have investigating are they still investigating in hawaii? i don t want to comment on that, but i can tell you there are a lot of problems with this. he does not have he has not given a birth certificate. you know what, i wish he would. i ll give you an example. he could end it simply, just show it to us and it will be over. here s the birth certificate. thank you very much, steve, i appreciate that. just show us the birth certificate. it s that simple. it s that simple. listen, reporting on spending press time covering birtherism itself i think is a defensible thing. reporting on this as a phenomenon, reporting on the fact that is a fund-raising racket and money making on the right, debunking this as a conspiracy theory, those are a
journalist to have pushed this? what do you think about this birth certificate issue? i mean it has not been my main issue, but it kind of does get a little odd here after a while. can t they just produce it? let s say that the people you have investigating are they still investigating in hawaii? i don t want to comment on that, but i can tell you there are a lot of problems with this. he does not have he has not given a birth certificate. you know what, i wish he would. i ll give you an example. he could end it simply, just show it to us and it will be over. here s the birth certificate. thank you very much, steve, i appreciate that. just show us the birth certificate. it s that simple. it s that simple. listen, reporting on spending press time covering birtherism itself i think is a defensible time. reporting on this as a phenomenon, reporting on the fact that is a fund-raising racket and money making on the right, debunking this as a conspiracy theory, those are al
what do you think about this birth certificate issue? i mean it has not been my main issue, but it kind of does get a little odd here after a while. can t they just produce it? let s say that the people you have investigating are they still investigating in hawaii? i don t want to comment on that, but i can tell you there are a lot of problems with this. he does not have he has not given a birth certificate. you know what, i wish he would. i ll give you an example. he could end it simply, just show it to us and it will be over. here s the birth certificate. thank you very much, steve, i appreciate that. just show us the birth certificate. it s that simple. it s that simple. listen, reporting on spending press time covering birtherism itself i think is a defensible time. reporting on this as a phenomenon, reporting on the fact that is a fund-raising racket and money making on the right, debunking this as a conspiracy theory, those are all respectable excuses for spendi
and this is hard to talk about in the day-to-day news context, because there are such low expectations for politicians to be truthful, and the word lie is underused and overused to the on the where everybody s a little bit touchy about it. to the point that mr. romney lies all the time about all sorts and stuff and doesn t care when he gets caught is maybe the single most notable thing about his campaign. it started in his very first speech, his kickoff announcement speech this year, he lied. when he took office, the economy was in recession, and he made it worse. that s a lie. that is a lie. oh, mr. romney claims, others say the response from no. that s a lie. the economy started getting better almost immediately after president obama s recovery act became law. his first policies to deal with the economy, right? but mitt romney still says this all the time. he did not cause this