Dad ROMNEY vs legacy kid Mittens: "My dad was the real deal."

[UTUSN]

Let's see: George ROMNEY concluded Vietnam was the wrong war by 1967 and lost his support for saying he had been "brainwashed" on a tour of VN conducted by generals; butted against the Birch Society; butted against other Rethugs over instituting the income tax in Michigan. Hmmm.

Will look for the quote where the Hebrews selected Saul king because of his looks and after that they didn't pick by that criterion. Besides the looks thing, the Legacy Kid thing needs to go.



ON EDIT: Here're the quotes:

1Sam9: “...Saul, a handsome young man. There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he; from his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people.”

1Sam10: “And Samuel said to all the people, ‘Do you see him whom the Lord has chosen? There is none like him among all the people.’ And all the people shouted, ‘Long live the king!’ “

1Sam16: “But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.’ “

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http://articles.cnn.com/2011-09-09/politics/george.mitt.romney_1_george-romney-mitt-romney-wrong-war?_s=PM:POLITICS

Romneys share looks but not traits, colleagues say

Comparing father and son, Molin said: "I watch Mitt pander to the tea party -- I'm sorry, there's no other way I can describe it. In 1962, at his first (state) convention as leader of the party, George Romney faced the same situation with the John Birch Society, and he took 'em face on. He didn't try to find an accommodation, and went on and beat 'em.

"But that was George Romney. He knew who he was. It was a very different time, but that was George.

"He helped craft a new model of education in the urban area. His son did the same thing with health care. He didn't invent government. He just made it work," Molin said. "Stop apologizing for what you've done." ....

"The contrast between the personalities of Mitt and George is pretty pronounced," he told me. "Though both fairly forceful, dynamic characters, Mitt, quite frankly, is the plastic man.

"He looks like his father in many respects but the directness and openness of George Romney simply is not there. You get the feeling everything is calculated, beyond his changing positions on the issues. It's like everything he says -- it just doesn't have the veracity, the ring of candor that you got from his father."

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[lumpy]

1. Exactly the impression I have of the differences between father

and son. George Romney had the respect his son doesn't appear to have.

[Joe Bacon]

2. George Romney paid the price.

He told the truth about Vietnam, he wouldn't back down. And he was destroyed because he wouldn't backtrack from what he said.

When I see Mitt Romney's waffling, I'm reminded of Evan Bayh. Two peas in the same pod. Both of them disgrace their father's legacies...

[rurallib]

3. I remember George Romney and Birch Bayh - had respect for both

both are poor legacies to their fathers

[virgogal]

4. I even remember the beautiful Marvella Bayh.

[Douglas Carpenter]

5. Well George Romney verses Mitt Romney -- Birch Bayh versus Evan Bayh

even George Herbert Walker Bush versus George W. Bush albeit that comparison is a little more complicated - what on earth has happened to this younger generation?

[UTUSN]

6. I was going to say it isn't the generation, it's the growing up Legacy

with all the advantages and expectations, but Poppy BUSH is also a Legacy Kid, not that Poppy was a paragon of achievement himself. In Poppy's case denial is huge: He hasn't fallen short of his class/predecessors' "values"(sic) except for that read-my-lips-thing, but he can't admit he's corrupt and craven, gets furious when confronted and claims to have known nothing about the dirty deals that are undeniable.

But frankly (stepping into it now; just can't help it) Caroline KENNEDY repelled me during the senator vacancy with the crass expectations of having it handed to her; and this latest episode with the Jackie tapes that she traded to the network in exchange for not letting the miniseries on the networks --- pretty much the same is my grain of sand.

[Douglas Carpenter]

7. well yes Poppy is a cynical old bastard but I would never use the word stupid to describe him

I don't think he was a right-wing ideologue. But he discovered what advances his career. If Marxist-Leninism advanced his career he would have been singing that tune.