Presidential Papas: Romney Tries to Live and Leave His Father’s Legacy
Mitt Romney’s relationship with his father was the polar opposite of the non-relationship President Barack Obama experienced with his dad (which I discussed in the first installment of “Presidential Papas” here at PJM). Unlike Obama’s broken paternal bond, everyone could always see the deep love and affection George Romney and his son Mitt shared. They were side by side and when George took a step, Mitt tried to take it too. And that deep connection led to a son who seems laser-focused on finishing what his dad started. But Mitt would later learn that to complete his dad’s work he would have to leave his father’s moderate form of Republicanism and awkwardly move to the political Right. The only way he could fulfill his father’s legacy would be to run away from part of it when the right time came.
Presidential historian Doug Wead has written extensively on presidents’ relationships to their fathers. And he likes to point out that sons either reject what their dads did or they attempt to complete what they couldn’t finish. He writes, “Presidents’ kids had a way of seeking the approval of the parent by ‘completion’ that is, doing the thing that the father hadn’t done…it happened over and over among all sons of presidents.”
George W. Bush was a good example of a completer. His presidential papa didn’t finish off Saddam Hussein and made the error of raising taxes against his pledge. Bush 41 came in and spent much of his presidency making sure Saddam was finished off and that historic tax cuts were enacted. And of course, he won a second term while his father did not.
When Rick Perry decided to run for president, many compared him to George W. Bush. But the Republican candidate who actually most resembles Bush is Mitt Romney. Mitt’s relationship with his own father, and subsequent desire to complete what his dad could not, is quite similar to the Bush father-son combo. It comes as no surprise that the elder Bush has already endorsed Romney; he probably reminds him of his son. And I’m sure George H.W. Bush reminds Mitt a little of George W. Romney. In fact, Bush told the press he was close to George Romney.
No, Mitt Romney is NOT the real deal. He’s a RINO. He has NOT moved away from his father’s centrist positions, and like his father, he’s a flip-flopper also.
Case in point: Think you know Mitt?
“Mitt Romney became known for being so careful with his words that he often appeared even unnatural or fake. He was the opposite of his gaffe-prone father, maybe to a fault.”
This is what is out of time for Romney’s 2012 run. The country hungers for a bare-knuckle debater to take it to the Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama, and Romney is struggling with this as it is against his nature.
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Romney is the classic “Establishment Republican”:
rich as hell, but still has Leftist Guilt about it.
IT’S TIME TO WIPE THE STAGE free of such flotsam.
UNLEASH GINGRICH IN 2012!!!
George Romney was a lousy governor – he mishandled the Detroit Riots, among many other things – and was a lousy HUD Secretary.
I would vote for Mitt in spite of his rotten old man.
You shouldn’t.
A vote for Romney is a vote for Obama.
He seems a nice enough guy. If a bit on the Milquetoast side. Not exactly what you’d call a
“LEADER!”. Not terribly inspiring or lovable. A successful president needs to be both. And as such first needs to prove it in the primaries. Men would walk through fire for Nixon or Johnson. The same only more so for Reagan and Clinton. Clinton could, and did, throw supporters to the wolves. And they STILL loved him for it. If he wasn’t insane Paul could almost be that kind of leader. Santorum’s strength seems to lay in “I’m Not The Other GUYS’. While Newt seems to be firing up the masses finally. Maybe. Just Maybe he can pull it off.
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