Romney Endorses Ultraconservative Steve King

I'm looking here at Steve King," Romney declared about halfway through his speech. "He needs to be your Congressman again. I want him as my partner in Washington!"

The crowd in the Northwestern College gymnasium roared with approval, but on Twitter liberals seized on the comments. Within an hour, Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith issued a statement decrying the endorsement.

"And, if his speech today praising Rep. Steve King — who has questioned whether women get pregnant from rape and incest and said hateful things about immigrants — is any indication, we know he wouldn’t stand up to the most strident voices in his party," Smith wrote. "Bringing back the failed policies that crashed the economy and pandering to the most extreme voices in his party isn’t a recipe for strength and it won’t move us forward.”

In an interview last month, in the wake of Todd Aiken controversially questioning whether women can get pregnant from being raped, King appeared to offer Aiken some support.


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