Who was George Romney?
A lot of claptrap gets written about sons’ relations with their fathers; some of the claptrap is even true. It seems possible, for instance, that George W. Bush decided to “take out” Saddam Hussein because the Iraqi dictator was implicated in a plot to kill Bush’s father during a 1993 visit to Kuwait. So as Governor Mitt Romney contemplates a presidential run in 2008, it is worth asking: Who was Mitt’s father, George Romney, and why did he fail in his own bid for the presidency in 1968? The parallels between Mitt and the man he calls “the real Governor Romney” are eerie. George Romney earned f…
