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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn 1972 George Romney complained "My family and I were forced out of Mexico..."
So they aren't here by choice? They would prefer Mexico? Is that why Mitt says he will style his, god forbid, adminstration on James Polk -- to re-invade Mexico?
Romney has the audacity to question Obama's love of this country while his father tells us that the reason the Romney family is here is because they "were FORCED out of Mexico" !?
Found this outrageous quote while researching the parallels between Mitt in NOLA and his father who visited the flooded regions of Wilkes-Barre in 1972 as part of the Nixon administration.
Romney responded with statements like, My family and I were forced out of Mexico some time ago. I came out of that with only a wristwatch. We had no equity, and if you think Im going to recommend equity in this situation, you have another thought coming.
http://www.timesleader.com/stories/Romneys-fathers-visit-in-72-didnt-go-so-well,133665#ixzz25PzKNgvh
This is the guy who raised Mitt Romney and if Romney is ever forced out of the US he will have more than a wristwatch waiting for him in the Caymans. Perhaps Mitt can invade Mexico as "An Army of One."
Enrique
(27,461 posts)imagine the psychological implications of being in a refugee family from its ancestral homeland.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)rest of the Romney clan wasn't?
The Fuck You I Got Mine Party
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)or perhaps 'shut up and eat your debt' (eg the mortgage on your house that doesn't exist anymore.)
The episode ended George Romney's political career so I am sure it is memorable for Mitt.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)He doesn't have to live like a refugee. He could try going back to Mexico.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)(chorus) All have to live like refugees...
Avalux
(35,015 posts)His grandfather fled this country to Mexico because he wanted more than one wife and didn't want to abide by the laws of this country. In Mexico, he was able to do as he pleased and be a polygamist. Mexico was chosen as the preferred home of the Romney's over the US. Then George makes this statement about being forced out of Mexico; he didn't choose to come back to the US.
Growing up in such a family environment, where a person's attitudes and beliefs are formed from a very young age, it seems to me that Mitt really has a problem with the US and it may explain his cut throat business practices and obsession with becoming president. Dare I say the Romney family hates the US, that Mitt wants to be president to ruin the US?
Never underestimate the power of familial influence, especially in a family such as Mitt's.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)Seems like they have a different attitude toward living here than most of us do. I think they feel persecuted by the majority and have become very comfortable in the role of nation-less fleecers.
monmouth
(21,078 posts)supposedly "love." Meh..
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)Now what's left of that smoldering torch is passed to Mitt, which means it really wasn't Mitt's idea to run for President. He never had much choice in the matter. In his own mind, he can spin that into a kind of 'destiny.'