On Tuesday morning’s Starting Point, host Soledad O’Brien asked Tea Party Express chair Amy Kremer was asked whether she thought President Barack Obama loved the United States. Kremer replied that, as she sees it, Obama is more focused on making the country part of something “global,” and less about pursuing the idea of “the shining city on the hill, the greatness that has always been America.” And the case for Mitt Romney, she continued, is that he has “taken companies that are failing and turned them around to make them successful.”

O’Brien’s question was prompted by a Tweet Kremer had posted earlier:

Huge difference between @MittRomney & @BarackObama is tht Mitt luvs America! We need a president that luvs this country! #RNC2012 #GOP2012
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Fellow panelist Mayor Michael Nutter then noted that Romney “has also taken over companies and put people out of work. at the expense of losing jobs and making money for himself and for his investors. If you’re going to tell one side of the story, tell the other side.”