Uh oh Mitt, looks like you are in trouble again. The Iowa front runner is getting flack for not wanting any Muslims in his potential cabinet. When an article ran in the Christian Science Monitor that an Islamic businessman got a response from Mitt like that, Romney tried to back track and claim the question was phrased a different way. Too bad for Mitt there is earlier evidence that he answered the same question months before.
From TPM:
As you know, Romney is in a bit of a spot because of an account in the Christian Science Monitor by an Islamic businessman who claims Romney said that he "cannot see that a cabinet position would be justified" for a Muslim. Today Romney denied this version of events, saying that he had actually been asked whether he thought he needed a Muslim in his Cabinet to effectively counter Jihad, not whether he opposed the idea of having a Muslim in his Cabinet.
But as we reported earlier today, we located two GOPers in Nevada who say that Romney had in fact been asked a similar question and given a similar answer at another event three months ago. George Harris, a state GOP official, told us that he asked Romney at a private fundraiser if he would have any Muslims in his Cabinet. According to Harris, Romney's reply was "most likely not."
We've now discovered that there's a contemporaneous account of this episode in something called Liberty Watch Magazine, which Harris publishes.
Isn't sad that in this day and age a Presidential candidate of all people has to succumb to this religious bigotry? This is the man that many pundits say can over take Giuliani. Rudy is pretty much the same way, you never know what he'll say when he opens his mouth either.
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