It’s been a challenging week for Mitt Romney and it’s only Wednesday.
The Republican presidential candidate had a tough exchange with a gay Vietnam veteran in New Hampshire on Monday. On Tuesday, he was lampooned for knowing how to speak French. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is ahead of him in the national polls, after a strong showing in Saturday’s Yahoo/ABC News debate in Iowa.
And now, political researchers have reported that a phrase Romney recently used – “Keep America American” – was used by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. It was also used in the 1800s by the Know Nothing Party, an anti-Catholic group.
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