George Romney Appreciation Thread
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I know, I know, he was still a Republican. Nobody here's going to agree with all aspects of his career and political record.
BUT George Romney was a moderate, and HONEST, Republican. From way back in the day when, here and there, such a thing still existed. And yes, those traits did get him in trouble with his party back then, too.
But he wasn't a man to pander. He wasn't a windsock. Wasn't a kiss-ass. George Romney had honor and integrity... again, back when Republicans could, if they chose to, actually have those things.
And I bring him up today because I believe that every one of the rare times Mitt Romney does the right thing, as he just did on one of two votes, at least, I personally think it's because he knows very well that his father, were he still alive, would be deeply disappointed in him for doing anything else. That George Romney would be outright ashamed of him.
Mitt Romney's one vote to convict today is, I believe, because every once in a while, for whatever reason, the son cannot bear to once again disgrace the name of a far better man.
George Romney.
A brief bit from Wikipedia is below.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney
Having entered politics by participating in a state constitutional convention to rewrite the Michigan Constitution during 1961–1962, George Romney was elected Governor of Michigan in 1962. Re-elected by increasingly large margins in 1964 and 1966, he worked to overhaul the state's financial and revenue structure, greatly expanding the size of state government and introducing Michigan's first state income tax.
Romney was a strong supporter of the American Civil Rights Movement. He briefly represented moderate Republicans against conservative Republican Barry Goldwater during the 1964 U.S. presidential election.
He requested the intervention of federal troops during the 1967 Detroit riot.
Initially a front runner for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 1968 election, he proved an ineffective campaigner and fell behind Richard Nixon in polls.
After a mid-1967 remark that his earlier support for the Vietnam War had been due to a "brainwashing" by U.S. military and diplomatic officials in Vietnam, his campaign faltered even more and he withdrew from the contest in early 1968.
After Nixon's election as president, he appointed Romney as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Romney's ambitious plans for housing production increases for the poor, and for open housing to desegregate suburbs, were modestly successful but often thwarted by Nixon. Romney left the administration at the start of Nixon's second term in 1973.
Returning to private life, he advocated volunteerism and public service, and headed the National Center for Voluntary Action and its successor organizations from 1973 through 1991.
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