I just read this story to a friend and he shook his head and said, "What kind of a name is 'Mitt' anyway?" Then he started playing with it: "Mitch? Mitchell? No. Mitt. Hm. Admit, omit..."--bingo!
Omit Romney!
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I went roaming and found out that Romney's name is actually "Willard Mitt Romney" and he was named after the Marriott Hotels' billionaire, J. Willard Marriott, a friend of his father. The "Mitt" apparently came from his father's cousin Milton "Mitt" Romney, a quarterback for the Chicago Bears (1920s).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney
Presumably he or his family/political groomers picked out "Mitt" from this stuffy mouthful ("Willard Milton Romney"
for future bumper stickers, unaware that a future leftist friend of Peace Patriot would come up with the clever, "O Mitt Romney!"
The Marriott Hotels, indeed.
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