Sins of the Fathers: The smearing of a man who would be president
Tue, 02/27/2007 - 11:26am
Republican presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney was the recipient of outrageous campaign mudslinging over the weekend when the Associated Press published an hit piece revealing that his great-grandfather had fives wives and great-great-grandfather had twelve.
Romney has been married – to one woman – for 37 years. He has disavowed polygamy in the past calling it "bizarre." In fact, while Romney has only had one wife his primary opponents haven't. John McCain is in his second marriage and Rudy Guiliani in his third (including briefly being married to his cousin).
We should not hold people accountable, politicians or otherwise, for the sins of generations past. Joseph P. Kennedy, father of one of the greatest political families of our time, was an avowed anti-semite. Does that make his children, some of the greatest politicians of our time, any less qualified?
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Robert J. Johnson is an American political commentator and contributor to DCguide.com.
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Go Mitt!
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/27/2007 - 11:34am.
This crap is ridiculous. Mitt in '08!
Oh, it's relevent
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/27/2007 - 12:05pm.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. The Republicans used the politics of personal destruction against us when they impeached the greatest president ever.
It's all about winning
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/27/2007 - 1:10pm.
to me, its all about winning. whatever it takes to get hilary elected is fine with me. hilary will be our next president. shes exactly what we need.
stupid Hillary
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/27/2007 - 4:32pm.
We need Hillary like we need a nail in our head. She would ruin this country. We need someone like Al Gore to get us back on track.
What?
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 03/01/2007 - 12:58pm.
A man "who would be president"? Robert, that's quite a moronic assertion. He has NO CHANCE.
H'08
Hit piece?
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 03/07/2007 - 12:51am.
Please, DC Guide, why are you allowing such rubbish on your website?
What's Romney's #1 issue? So-called "family values." So, uh, the tenet of Mormonism about polygamy is relevant. It isn't primary, but it is relevant.
DC Guide should have a higher standard for its writers.
Dennis Jaffe
Relevant?
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 03/07/2007 - 12:07pm.
Dennis, I think the author is right. My understanding (I'm not a Mormon) is that the Mormon church eliminated polygamy with the 1890 Manifesto.
How is holding Mitt responsible for the practices of his grandfathers any different than holding a sizable percentage of Caucasians responsible for their slave-owning relatives of long ago?
Personally, I hope Fred Thompson (http://www.draftfredthompson.com) jumps into the race.
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