Chief GOP Nativist: Third Romney Run "Good for Our Country"

JEB! and GOP: Open Borders and Closed Minds!

Iowa Rep. Steve King, probably the most prominent "hard" nativist in the GOP House, has come out publicly in favor of a third run by Wall Street Willard.

Romney, who took a hard line on open borders himself in 2012 in an effort to pander to the nativist GOP base, was well know for his "self deportation" idea as a solution to the million of undocumented Bush-era workers in the US. RealClearPolitics tells the tale:

“Mitt Romney sees the picture on what it takes to get elected to the presidency,” King said. “He’s run campaigns in Iowa twice in the past, and if it’s in his head and his heart and he’s driven to do this, then that’s going to be good for our country that we will have the debate that will come from this.”

King is set to play host this Saturday to a slew of potential Republican White House hopefuls who are descending on Des Moines for an event co-hosted by the conservative group Citizens United.

The Iowa Freedom Summit will be the first major cattle call of the 2016 Republican campaign with likely White House contenders including Chris Christie, Scott Walker, Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum and Ben Carson among those scheduled to speak to conservative activists in the nation’s first voting state.

King said he had invited Romney to attend but was initially told that the 2012 Republican presidential nominee would not be able to make it.

“We’ve re-offered the invitation and hope that he can logistically find a way,” King added.

A longtime aide to Romney did not respond to an inquiry about whether he might make a last-minute decision to attend the event.