Romney Attacked by His Father’s Longtime Aide (Mitt would say/do anything to close a deal/election)
Source: New York Times
Romney Is Attacked by His Father’s Longtime Aide
By MICHAEL BARBARO
A longtime aide to George W. Romney issued a harshly worded critique of Mitt Romney, accusing him of shifting political positions in “erratic and startling ways” and failing to live up to the distinguished record of his father, the former governor of Michigan.
Walter De Vries, who worked for the senior Mr. Romney throughout the 1960s, wrote that Mitt Romney’s bid for the White House was “a far cry from the kind of campaign and conduct, as a public servant, I saw during the seven years I worked in George Romney’s campaigns and served him as governor.”
“While it seems that Mitt would say and do anything to close a deal – or an election,” he wrote, “George Romney’s strength as a politician and public officeholder was his ability and determination to develop and hold consistent policy positions over his life.”
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Mr. De Vries continued, “George would never have been seen with the likes of Sheldon Adelson or Donald Trump.”
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before phones were untethered from the wall and came with video recorders
I am glad to see that articles like the one about Walter DeVries' jaundiced view of Mitt get printed somewhere in the corporate news media. All too often, such articles relevant to forming an accurate opinion about a political candidate's character get ignored, heavily edited, or back-paged by the jellyfish who purport to edit and report the news for the rest of us.
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A word to any passing Republican lurkers reading this. Please note it's not just us "libs" who are less than impressed by Mitt's character and honesty. It is guys like David Stockman, also former Republican senators and Congressmen, and now somebody who worked for Mitt's dad and has probably met with and dealt with Mitt himself who are less than thrilled about the idea of Mitt Romney as President. It is also the guys and gals who performed the opposition research concerning Mitt for Republican candidates like John McCain and Newt Gingrich who are also less than tickled about Mitt.
I can see why good Republicans might be tempted to discredit anything those rascally Democrats might say. But do you all plan to ignore what guys who served YOUR party for many years say about Mitt, too?
Ignoring so-called "liberals" is one thing. Putting your hands over your ears and saying "la, la, la, I can't hear you!" when confronted with unpleasant and inconvenient facts is symptomatic of an inability to deal with the world as it is.
