@MontereyJack,
Thanks for your note on the career of romney.
@ georgeob
Monterey Jack lives in Massachusetts, as I do. The chutzpah with which you tell me what people in this state think would be amusing if it weren't so pathetic.
I have run parallel to Willard (his real name) Romney most of my life. We are the same age and are both from Michigan. His father spoke at my high school graduation because George Romney and Monsignor Maino, the pastor of the parish which sponsored the school, were close friends. For many years, Willard and I lived less than four miles from each, albeit in different towns. We knew people in common.
MJ wrote:
Quote:He kept running for office and running his mouth, so we had something like fifteen years experience with him telling us what he stood for by the time he finally got into an office. Within two years he'd flipflopped on everything he'd told us, as he told the rest of the country he'd never REALLY believed what he'd told us for years he did. He'll tell you anything to get elected. We know--he did.
One of the things Willard told the electorate of Massachusetts was what came to be known, derisively, as "the Prom King" campaign.
As a high school senior, Willard began dating Anne, then a freshman and now his wife. His Prom King campaign television ads featured two that turned many -- and should have turned all -- against him.
In one, he talked about how his prom date was, as he referred to her, "the good Anne." He talked about the "crazy car," an American Motors product (if that rings a bell with you), that he was provided with for the prom. The young couple went to the submarine races after the dance and the car ran out of gas. As his father formerly chaired American Motors, many regarded his statement about the crazy car as an insult to his late parent.
However, that wasn't the ad that cast him in a negative light. The ad which followed it was. Willard bragged about how, as a student at Stanford, he took a job working as a night watchman, not because he needed money for pizza and movies, but because he flew home every weekend to be with his jailbait girlfriend.
With much bravado, this Republican looked into the camera and bragged that neither his parents nor hers ever knew.
Revelation for you: During academic 1965-66, when Willard and I were freshmen, a night watchman's wages were probably insufficient to finance weekly cross country flights.
What is worse, is
this man bragged about sneaking and lying to not one set of parents but two.
In other words, he told the electorate of Massachusetts that he was and is a liar.
Now, for many years -- although they have toned down that rhetoric -- the Republicans have attempted to represent themselves as the part of family values and sexual restraint. I have often presented evidence here that many Republicans are neither. However, it was the left that held his statements for what they were: the words of a man who holds his own wills and desires above those of others, including his own parents.
Do not attempt to rationalize the matter by saying he did what many 18 year old boys did at the time (with the exception of the extravagant flights).
It was as a man in his late 50s that Willard bragged.
