I have a confession to make. I shook Gov. Romney's hand, and I thought he was a swell guy.

[Ikonoklast]

At the Traverse City, Michigan, National Cherry Festival parade, he was walking along the parade route next to his motorcade, and he was shaking the hands of the people that came out to him.






It was 1968.

I was twelve years old.

My family was on vacation.

George Romney was Governor of Michigan, and pretty popular in the state.





Sue me.

[Angry Dragon]

1. That is okay

he was 21 at the time

[Ikonoklast]

2. George? He was a lot older than that.

Willard was in Paris, trying to convert his French chef, butler and house maid to LDS in '68, I believe.

[Angry Dragon]

3. I misread the name

Back then a lot of republicans had hearts and souls
I think over time hearts and souls have been breed out of them.........
leaves more room for hate

[Ikonoklast]

8. George Romney was anti-war after coming back from a trip to Viet Nam.

He saw that the generals were full of shit and lying their asses off about just what was going on there.


That counted for a lot in my book, if not as a politician, as a Human Being.

[RZM]

4. Something I've wondered

Since Mitt was in France during the 1968 disturbances. I wonder if being there during that was an important moment in his subsequent political progression.

[Ikonoklast]

5. As long as he was far, far away from Viet Nam, I don't think he really cared if Paris burned to the

ground.


That is one reason why I don't see why people are making such a huge deal over OWS...the massive social unrest of the sixties, the race riots, the Democratic Convention police riot, cities burning, fire fights in the streets, we really thought there was incipient civil war in this country back then.

OWS is tame by comparison.

[RZM]

6. That's true

But I wonder if a huge deal is being made of it? Hasn't one of the criticisms been that the media hasn't covered it enough? That's evidence to me that not a whole lot of people are particularly concerned. I think the people most opposed to it tend to dismiss it as silly, rather than view it as a threat that must be destroyed.

[Ikonoklast]

7. I'd rather not be taken as being 'silly'; not being taken seriously would doom any movement.

But being ignored is even worse, I suppose.

[RZM]

9. That's my sense from hearing what they say about it

I don't think anybody views OWS as a threat right now. Part of the poo-pooing is par for the course. People often try to marginalize things they don't like. But I think it's mostly a sincere sentiment. I guess I'm speaking more about regular folks who aren't wealthy and thus aren't the targets of the ire in the first place.

I don't have enough regular conversations with wealthy people to really know what they think. Although I actually did have one with two people a couple weeks after it started. One is a pretty liberal dem, the other a moderate republican. They both were actually somewhat sympathetic and agreed that something was very wrong on Wall St. But they certainly didn't think it was a threat to them.