On May 13 2007, Mitt Romney posted the following endorsement on his website:
Senator Larry Craig, Idaho State Journal
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has announced his candidacy for president, and I support him because he is someone who has a record of standing up for the rights of ordinary Americans – people who are starting a business, looking for a job, building a family, and enjoying the freedoms guaranteed to them by the U.S. Constitution.
On the morning of August 28 2007, the day after word got out that Senator Larry Craig had played footsie with another man, Mitt Romney deleted Larry Craig’s endorsement. This is the text you’ll find instead:
Mitt Romney would like your endorsement, but only if you are NOT GAY. Attention, gay people, stay away from the Mitt Romney campaign! Also, if you are even possibly gay, your services are not appreciated. If you look gay to other people but deny that you are, please work for some other campaign, not Mitt Romney’s. Your cooties, or possible cooties, or the appearance of possible cooties, will only embarrass the Romney campaign.
In the spirit of tossing endorsements in the trash when it appears that endorsers just might possibly be gay, we’d like to lend a hand to the Romney 2008 campaign as it seeks the proper balance of moral purity and uplift. Here are a couple possible bumper stickers that could help spread Mitt Romney’s new message of inclusive patriotism for all Americans who don’t have cooties:
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P.S. I hear that if you want to really let Mrs. Romney know you like her, you should pull her pigtails and put a frog in her desk.
Who says gay people are Americans? I don’t see that anywhere in the Constitution.