Gimmee a break. His father did well as governor in Michigan 4 decades ago and his presidential bid was taken down by a statement blown out of proportion by the Lying-Stream Media.
But Mitt is not George. Not even close.
I've worked on campaigns for a local conservative Republican Mormon (surnamed Nixon!) and am not sorry one bit -- though he was turned out from a left-swinging district I'll support him again wherever he runs. Mormonism is NOT an issue.
Mitt's history is.
Do you mean the George and Mitt Romney that stormed out on Goldwater at the 1964 convention, or the George Romney that was running as the antiwar republican presidential candidate while his son was avoiding the draft in France? They did not march with MLK either. The George and Mitt Romney that belonged to a racist religion even into the Carter years?
Or the George and Mitt Romney that were proabortion in 1970, years before RoeVWade, or the Mitt Romney that was so anti-Reagan that he dropped his republican party registration to protest Reagan?
Or the Mitt Romney that said this about Jesse Helms? "I'm not a partisan politician. My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helmses."