re: #694 SanFranciscoZionist

However, he was president, and while I disapproved of most of what he did, I would never have said he did not deserve to be president because he was ‘divisive’.

What’s more, Romney did not say Obama did not deserve to be POTUS. He said Obama did not have the right to be POTUS. The former one could be taken as meritocratic partisanship taken too far. The latter is much stronger, it denies the legality of Obama holding the office, and that implies a Birther kind of mentality.