Previously it was SomethingAwful.com and now the conservative magazine Newsmax has made the same error of referring to WhyRomney.com as Mitt Romney’s official site when it is actually an archive of information and arguments by supporters having no coordination with the Romney campaign.
The Newsmax article, written by Henry J. Ruske, does not link to WhyRomney.com but quotes from it’s amnesty section, which says in regards to the McCain-Kennedy bill of 2005 that Mitt Romney “explicitly refused to endorse it.” Newsmax takes this quote from WhyRomney.com and mistakenly attributes it to Mitt Romney himself:
The Post also noted that Romney, in a November 2005 interview with the Boston Globe, appeared to support immigration reform advanced by Sen. John McCain that many have dubbed amnesty. Romney rejects that characterization and while noting on a campaign website that he said provisions in the bill were “reasonable” added that he “explicitly refused to endorse it.”
Mitt Romney’s actual campaign website does not have a format for responding to critics. For reference, view the official Mitt Romney immigration page here.
