Posted on 08/26/2012 10:24:07 AM PDT by SE Mom
Now that he’s officially the Republican nominee for president.. I never liked Mitt Romney. My distaste for him isn’t merely personal or political but also petty and superficial. There’s the breathless, Eddie Attaboy delivery, that half-smile of pitying condescension in debates or interviews when someone disagrees with him..
...At his wedding, he declined when the photographer asked him to kiss the bride: “Not for cameras,” he said. ...a typical week for the young family. Sunday: “church, reflection, volunteer work, family dinners.” Monday: “family night,” when the family gathered for Bible stories and skits about animals. Tuesday was for family basketball games and cookouts. Friday was date night for Mitt and Ann. Saturday was for doing chores, and so on, in a pinwheel of wholesomeness that a -post-60s ironist can only gape at, disbelieving.
...But my slowly softening opinion went instantly to goo when The Real Romney unfolded an account of his endless kindnesses—unbidden, unsung, and utterly gratuitous. “It seems that everyone who has known him has a tale of his altruism,” the authors write. I was struck by the story of a Mormon family called (unfortunately) Nixon. In the 1990s a car wreck rendered two of their boys quadriplegics. Drained financially from extraordinary expenses, Mr. Nixon got a call from Romney, whom he barely knew, asking if he could stop by on Christmas Eve. When the day came, all the Romneys arrived bearing presents, including a VCR and a new sound system the Romney boys set up. Later Romney told Nixon that he could take care of the children’s college tuition, which in the end proved unnecessary. “I knew how busy he was,” Nixon told the authors. “He was actually teaching his boys, saying, ‘This is what we do. We do this as a family.’
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Still- because I was exactly like the author in my reaction to him, I found the article worthwhile reading and even important.
I hope some freepers will take a few minutes to read the whole article and perhaps get a more complete picture of the GOP candidate.
FYI ping..
Mitt is in some sense an exercise in self contradiction. The official Mormon thang is clean living, not libertinism (except for the polygamy of course), and their official mores are similar to those of mainstream evangelicals, with a few uniquely Mormon twists. Mitt shouldn’t have ever countenanced taking the part he did in gay marriage and abortion, that he took in Massachusetts — he ought to have quit rather than be a party to them. Now if Mitt had since confessed that doing those things had been sins (and I’m not even talking about Romneycare) that would be one thing. But he hasn’t. So there is a problem and a challenge here.
For the record I am set to be a clothespin nose voter this November and it will be Mitt. But it is not without serious qualms.
But, Obama seems to have a deeply rooted, visceral, beyond personal rage and hatred for the man, and for now, I will have to accept that as endorsement enough.
The Fox interview that Chris Wallace did with Ann and Mitt was REALLLLLY good!! I was SHOCKED! I liked BOTH of them WAY more now.
I believe it because it rings true with the Mormon families I have known.... They are some of the nicest, most authentic people.... even though I disagree with their spiritual beliefs, I think many of us could learn from their lifestyle choices and the results.
Thanks for the ping. Definately worth the read and mirrors my visceral reaction to him as well. I have to say for the record though that McCain always bothered me more than Romney...lol. And still does. He just gets on my last nerve!!
Learning to like Romney is like learning to enjoy pain and suffering. It’s a symptom of abuse.
Well at least Romney has Ryan on the ticket, a devout Catholic.
And, if enough adopt that strategy, conservatives will be screwed for eight years, not just four, and end up right back where we were at the end of the Bush Presidency with Democrats in control of the White House and Congress.
I don’t believe Mormon theology more than any other tall tale, period. However, i could be much happier in Salt Lake City, than in Mecca or Islamabad.
I like Romneys people more than Obamas people. Those 19 year old missionaries in neckties might make me roll my eyes, buy at least they don’t carry a spear, and i never need to worry that they might cut my head off or detonate a bomb.
It is almost hilarious to watch how Barack Obama points at Mitt Romney and shrieks that here comes Attila the Hun. If Mitt Romney only makes sense half the time, that is more sense than Barack and Joe make together.
Well Mitt was not my first, second, third, or even a fourth choice. But what we are up against, I am going to have to hold my nose this November to vote for him.
It seems fatuous to even assume there will be only four more years of an Emperor Obama. Mitt will obey the rules. Obama: “what are rules if not to be broken?”
Contrast Romney to 0bama:
Generous philanthropy v narcissism
Hard working v affirmative action
real life business experience v “community activist”
American v. America hater
Whatever other faults you may find in Romney’s political philosophies, I don’t think there’s any question about the choice to be made.
“Support for Romney is disobedience to God!”
If this is true, then what is helping Obama who supports a marxist economy, the murder of babies that incredibly manage to survive an abortion, and thinks the moslem call to prayer is the prettiest sound on earth?
If voting for Romney is intended to stop an evil 10 times worse, take our nation in a better direction, and to be a first step on the path to where America neeeds to head, God indeed officially approves it.
He certainly wasn’t my first choice either- although- I didn’t HAVE a choice this year- I wasn’t interested or excited about ANY of them.
If he’s our next president I have NO doubt that I will be furious with him from time to time and irritated often. I’m willing to live with that and will not be shy about hollering my disagreement. I’m NOT willing to do ANYTHING to ensure that the current president have four more years in the White House. I see a fundamental difference between Obama and Romney- ones loves America, one does not.
Well, one of the first lines about the kiss at the wedding and a photo. There would not have been a photographer at the wedding, even Mrs. Romney’s parents were prohibited to attend.
Yes! My wife and I watched that interview this morning and were bowled over by it! Great interview!
Cheers
Romney was not stranded in France, he was being protected in France from the draft.
Romney and his family have done some really nice things, they are financially stable so they have provided more material things than most. (Would he have helped a non mormon family?)
Doing nice things on occasion is not a reason to be president.
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