Avalux (27,986 posts)
Knowing the history of the Romney family, I have a theory.
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The US has always been know as a melting pot, people from other countries have come here and want to come here to have a better life.
Not so with the Romney's; they are the opposite. Mitt's grandfather fled the US because he didn't want to live by the laws of the United States of America.
He fled Mexico because he wanted to have more than one wife; he wanted to do as his religious views dictated and live a life of polygamy. Mexico was chosen as the preferred home of the Romney's over the US.
George Romney was raised in this family environment; his father, raised him to hate the US. This explains his statement about being forced out of Mexico; he didn't choose to come back to the US. How could he not be bitter?
Now comes Mitt, whose father didn't want to live in the US, but then decided to run for public office when Mitt was young. One has to wonder his motivation for doing so. To change what his family hated about the US? Mitt was raised by this man, who has influenced his attitudes and beliefs; passing down the bitterness and hatred to his son.
Considering all of this, there may be validity in questioning if Mitt really is loyal to the US and it may explain his cut throat business practices and obsession with becoming president.
Dare I say that the Romney family has a deep hatred of the US, specifically the federal government, that has been passed down through generations?
Dare I say that Mitt has never felt patriotic or a sense of belonging to the US?
Dare I say that Mitt wants to be president to ruin the US and avenge his family?
Yes I do.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021259268Seriously? Have they really projected 0bama's biography on to Romney?
What words or action are there from Romney that shows that he doesn't like this country?
It is 0bama who has said that the US needs to be fundamentally changed, it is 0bama who has said that the US is mean, arrogant and on and on how horrible this country is.
valerief (31,925 posts)
1. Mitch (as Letterman calls him) and Ann are BOTH anchor babies. nt

riverwalker (5,490 posts)
2. it would explain
why no one in the Romney family ever fought FOR the US, at anytime in 4 generations.
No Romney has ever worn the uniform of any of the armed forces of the United States.
How many 0bamas have served?
kestrel91316 (41,111 posts)
4. Well I've studied his genealogy enough and most of his family came to the US very recently
(relatively speaking), being immigrants from Europe in the mid-late 1800s. They didn't waste much time before heading off to Mexico, either, so he has little in the way of established historical roots in the US.
Loyalty to the very concept of a United States of America could very well be an issue with him.
Of course I am comparing him to somebody like me, where almost every branch of my family goes back to New England in the 1600s and early 1700s, and I have lost count of how many of my ancestors fought in the Revolution.
So your idea does make one wonder........
Yet 0bama was raised in other countries, he was brought up to hate what the US is and what it stands for, yet somehow you think he is loyal to this country.
cali (73,768 posts)
8. ridiculous. man, how I hate this stinking dog shit. I don't care
whether it's about the President or horrible Mitt. I don't even care anymore if it's tongue in cheek.
And anyone who says george romney hated the U.S. is ****ing ignorant- or stupid.
This is nothing but birtherism politics.
Revolting. Disgusting. And most of all:
Stupid.
When Cali is the voice of reason in a thread, you know that thread is pretty bad.
Avalux (27,986 posts)
10. That's why I said it was a theory....
I have a right to think out loud here, and there is a very real possibility there's truth to what I've said.
There isn't any evidence the Romney family cares much about the US and its people either.
Yeah all those stories we heard at the convention were made up. He didn't really hang out with that kid with cancer and make his will for him, he really bought the company where that kid's dad worked at and fired him and took his health insurance away.