You've got to hear this.

Asked at a Romney campaign event whether his father would follow decades of precedent and release his tax returns, Mitt Romney's adult son Matt quoted the most recent Tea Party line, saying:

"... As soon as President Obama releases his grades, and birth certificate, and sort of a long list of things, then maybe he will."

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.

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.

Make a donation to the campaign now:

https://donate.barackobama.com/Cost-of-Negativity

Yours in vigilance,

Messina

Jim Messina
Campaign Manager
Obama for America