The Manufacturing of Willard Romney, Human, Is Here - By Charles P. Pierce

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The Manufacturing of Willard Romney, Human, Is Here
By Charles P. Pierce

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I have to admit that I, a son of the Commonwealth and grandson of a shepherd lass from the hills of north Kerry, never looked at Willard Romney and his perfect wife and his perfect children and thought to myself that we shared a common experience as the descendants of emigres. I have to admit that I don't look at him and think anything of that sort now, either. But, by god, he made a real stab at it, and I had to respect the effort, and the raw chutzpah, if nothing else. (This is tonight's quiz, in the category "America Is a Nation of Immigrants": George Romney rose in one lifetime from abject poverty to become governor of Michigan and an auto millionnaire. Marco Rubio's father lived and died a ballroom bartender. Compare and contrast.&quot Romney also came just inches from actually inhabiting the role of a child of immigrants — Mitt Freaking Romney, who looks like his family immigrated from Mattel — and I didn't think he had that in him.

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1. Pierce knocks it out of the park once again.