Originally Posted By TomSawyer It's like history repeating itself. Check out the following about George W. Romney's presidential campaign in 1968. "Romney's greatest weakness was his lack of foreign policy expertise and his need for a clear position on the Vietnam War.[15] The press coverage of the trip focused on Vietnam and reporters were frustrated by Romney's initial reluctance to speak about it.[15] . . . The qualities that helped give Romney success as an automotive industry executive worked against him as a presidential candidate;[19] he had difficulty being articulate on any issue, often speaking at length and too forthrightly on a topic and then later correcting himself while maintaining he was not.[20][21][11] Reporter Jack Germond joked that he was going to add a single key on his typewriter that would print, "Romney later explained...."[20] Life magazine wrote that Romney "manages to turn self-expression into a positive ordeal" and that he was no different in private: "nobody can sound more like the public George Romney than the real George Romney let loose to ramble, inevitably away from the point and toward some distant moral precept."[11] The perception grew that Romney was gaffe-prone and a plodder. (Wikipedia)
Originally Posted By SuperDry ... except his dad released his tax returns when running for President. In fact, his dad was the one that started the whole tradition of releasing many years of returns for presidential candidates. How odd that he's so much like his father in the ways described above, but when given the chance to follow a positive trait, he departs on that one.
Originally Posted By andyll George Romney wouldn't be voting for his son. After all he was part of the 47% that was taking welfare handouts after his family fled from Mexico to the US. (Romney's grandparents did a lot of fleeing back then) <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/before-ann-and-mitt-lenore-and-george" target="_blank">http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrew...d-george</a> He was also a community organizer after leaving Nixon's administration.
