Mitt Romney's Father Palled Around With Saul Alinsky

[RandySF]

The radical pioneer Saul Alinsky, who helped invent the practice of bottom-up politics through "community organizing" in the middle of the 20th century, has become a key bogeyman for Republican in the Obama era. Obama worked for Alinsky acolytes early in his career, and even contributed to an anthology titled "After Alinsky."

"Saul Alinsky radicalism is at the heart of Obama," Gingrich told CNN Sunday.

But Obama isn't the only candidate with one-degree-of-separation ties to Alinsky. In his biography of Romney's father, Michigan Governor George Romney, T. George Harris writes that the elder Romney and Alinsky met after the Detroit riots of 1967.

When slum organizer Saul Alinsky, with the West Side Organization’s militant Negroes and clerics, wanted to meet with the white Detroit rulers, Romney indirectly arranged the meeting, and attended. Democratic Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh avoided the rough company.


http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/mitt-romneys-father-palled-around-with-saul-a

[SlimJimmy]

1. That's quite a leap if you ask me. This is not going to come anywhere near hurting Romney.

I think we're much better sticking with tax returns and Bain.

Romney indirectly arranged the meeting, and attended.

[Lint Head]

2. The Mormans are into geneology and their ancestors.

If Romney's father is brought into the GOP fray as a negative I think all hell will break loose aimed at Newt the adulterer.