Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, apparently is having the problem his father had 40 years ago. Looks like he might have been brainwashed.
Mitt's dad, George, was a successful executive at American Motors Corp., who came up with some unconventional cars and kept pace with the Big Three for a while with the Rambler. I am told every teen boy lusted after a Rambler because the front seats went flat. He then became the governor of Michigan.
In 1965, as U.S. troops were just getting situated on the ground in Vietnam, Romney went to the war zone and in 1967 made the unfortunate comment in an interview on a Detroit TV station that "When I came back from Vietnam I'd just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get." Probably ahead of his time, he then shifted to opposing the war. At the time, he was the leading Republilcan presidential candidate.
Romney was lambasted by pundits and comedians for being "brainwashed". Romney announced his withdrawal as a presidential candidate in February 1968.
Last month, Mitt Romney sought the mantle once removed by misremembering, “I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.” Well, that never happend. Later he said it was “a figure of speech."
Last week, Mitt got into a confrontation with an Associated Press reporter on the hustings questioning his statement he did not have lobbyists on his presidential campaign staff. Which in fact, he does.
Does the apple fall far from the tree? Has Mitt been brainwashed or does he just have a poor memory? He heads here soon for the Feb. 5 primary so we may find out.
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