re: #715 000G

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.

Indeed. Basically, Romney is taking the same tack as the crazy concealed-carry instructor in Texas, he’s saying that a vote for Obama was a mistaken vote. Then he’s taking it further—such a vote does not count, since Obama does not have the ‘right’ to be president, even though Obama won the presidency by the only process that gives you the right to be POTUS.

So I am being informed that my right to the vote is conditional upon it putting a dude in the White House who doesn’t upset the Republican base. This is not, clearly, a reciprocal arrangement, either.