This claim came to light with the video that parted the curtain on Romney’s speech to high-end donors at a fundraiser in Boca Raton, Fla. While most focused on Romney’s disparaging comments about 47 percent of the country, in another part Romney lamented that he lacks Mexican heritage.

Here’s what he had to say: “About my heritage — my dad, you probably know, was the governor of Michigan and was the head of a car company, but he was born in Mexico. And had he been born of Mexican parents I’d have a better shot at winning this, but he was unfortunately born of Americans living in Mexico. They’d lived there for a number of years, and, uh, I mean I say that jokingly, but it’d be helpful if they’d been Latino.”

To understand the significance of this strange lament — Dad was a governor and head of one of the largest corporations in America, but too bad he wasn’t a Mexican — we should recognize that not one but two wannabe Mexican Mitts recently made the scene.

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