From the new documentary MITT, via Byron York…
“You’re the real deal,” said one of Romney’s sons.
Romney didn’t pause. “The guy was born in Mexico. He didn’t have a college degree. He became head of a car company and became a governor. It would have never entered my mind to be in politics, how can you go from his beginning to think, I can be head of a car company, I can run for governor, I can run for president?”
Romney wasn’t finished. “The gap — for me, I started where he ended up. I started off with money and education, Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School. For me it’s moving that far” — Romney held two fingers close together — “For him, it’s like that,” Romney said, holding his arms wide apart.
So, like the Koch Brothers before him, who inherited their father’s success only to work hard to limit the possibilities of others gaining the same, Mitt Romney recognizes, at least privately (and now in a documentary film which had unprecedented access to private moments during his last two Presidential campaigns), that he started off more advantaged than, say, 99% of Americans.
Jim Hightower once said that George H.W. Bush was “born on third base and thought he had hit a triple.” Romney was also born on third base, but at least he has the decency to admit it. At least in private. While otherwise publicly describing his fellow citizens who who weren’t born on third, like him, as ‘takers’.
The official trailer for MITT, premiering on Netflix beginning on January 24, follows below…
Maybe if he’d shown this part of himself and not acted a total dooooosh, he would have not lost by as much as he did. Because, lets face it, he would have continued being robot Mitt if he had won.
Never a fan of Romney, showing ones humility is always endearing
I worked for his dad’s election in Michigan while a student at MSU. Always a gentleman, he was somebody to look up to because he turned the state around from a deficit to a surplus in two years without cheating the poor. I never met Willard because he was off at Cranbrook doing his preppy thing.
And what did Willard do wither his opportunity? Bain Capital, my friends
You’re either an “inheritor” or a “taker” I guess.
That quote about third base is not from Hightower. It’s been attributed to Ann Richards but actually started with football coach Barry Switzer.
Romney is a piece of shit. His father was a financial gangster who screwed up the housing industry under Nixon. The Romneys are a crime family.