Presidential Papas: Romney Tries to Live and Leave His Father’s Legacy
If you read the story of George Romney then you will be amazed at how much Mitt Romney’s life has matched it. While they had very different childhoods — the elder Romney grew up poor — once adulthood was reached you will find an almost eerie resemblance in careers. But where George Romney eventually failed to reach the presidency, Mitt Romney is trying to turn that family failure into a success. As Mitt himself said of his father, “He has been my greatest influence.”
George W. Romney grew up a poor missionary kid but discovered the American dream early in adulthood. He entered the auto industry at a young age and eventually became head of the American Motors Corporation, completely revitalizing the company and returning it to profitability. He then shifted to politics and became a very popular three-term, moderate Republican governor of Michigan. He more than doubled the government’s spending but kept a balanced budget. He was known for getting things done.
The younger Romney, of course, did not grow up as a poor missionary kid. He lived surrounded by the wealth his father created. But his passion for the Church of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) mirrored his father’s passion. It is not required for young LDS men to do a two year mission trip, but it is greatly encouraged for those serious about their faith. Both father and son did their own two year mission trip when they were young, and Mitt followed his dad’s example by going to Western Europe as his father had decades earlier. Both men sincerely wanted to see conversions to the LDS on their separate trips and shared similar frustrations in the lack of results they saw while on mission. (Read the loving fatherly letters from George to Mitt expressing this similarity here.)
Mitt would come home, get married, and get to copying his father’s life in more ways. Mitt went into business just like dad (even though George wanted his son to be a lawyer). The younger Romney went to work for Bain & Company, eventually helping to form Bain Capital, which focused on buying losing companies and turning them into profitable successes they could sell. As his dad turned around one company, Mitt made his own fortune seeking to turn around many more.
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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