Hundreds of millions of political dollars have now been spent to vilify Mitt Romney, to challenge and deprecate everything he has done, to present him in the worst possible light, to bring forward only those arguments, often grossly distorted, that can paint him as unfit or uncaring or worse.
This scorched earth approach somehow does not present a problem to those of the radical left or to avid partisans, who simply appear to be intent on destroying someone with whom they do not agree.
For anyone out there who actually prides themselves in being objective and open minded, here is just one story that might be hard to reconcile with the attack ads but that gives a much different picture of values that most of us find attractive. This story deserves to be known and is copied directly from http://governmentprinciples.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/mitt-romney-his-real-character/
“Sometimes, this facet of Romney’s personality isn’t so subtle. In July 1996, the 14-year-old daughter of Robert Gay, a partner at Bain Capital, had disappeared. She had attended a rave party in New York City and gotten high on ecstasy. Three days later, her distraught father had no idea where she was. Romney took immediate action. He closed down the entire firm and asked all 30 partners and employees to fly to New York to help find Gay’s daughter. Romney set up a command center at the LaGuardia Marriott and hired a private detective firm to assist with the search. He established a toll-free number for tips, coordinating the effort with the NYPD, and went through his Rolodex and called everyone Bain did business with in New York, and asked them to help find his friend’s missing daughter. Romney’s accountants at Price Waterhouse Cooper put up posters on street poles, while cashiers at a pharmacy owned by Bain put fliers in the bag of every shopper. Romney and the other Bain employees scoured every part of New York and talked with everyone they could – prostitutes, drug addicts – anyone.
That day, their hunt made the evening news, which featured photos of the girl and the Bain employees searching for her. As a result, a teenage boy phoned in, asked if there was a reward, and then hung up abruptly. The NYPD traced the call to a home in New Jersey, where they found the girl in the basement, shivering and experiencing withdrawal symptoms from a massive ecstasy dose. Doctors later said the girl might not have survived another day. Romney’s former partner credits Mitt Romney with saving his daughter’s life, saying, “It was the most amazing thing, and I’ll never forget this to the day I die.”
So, here’s my epiphany: Mitt Romney simply can’t help himself. He sees a problem, and his mind immediately sets to work solving it, sometimes consciously, and sometimes not-so-consciously. He doesn’t do it for self-aggrandizement, or for personal gain. He does it because that’s just how he’s wired.”
For the skeptic, and we all should be, the above story is already fact checked: http://www.snopes.com/politics/romney/search.asp It is given the simple designation of “True”. Indeed, Snopes gives considerably more details considering this remarkable episode, which truly does reveal something about Mitt Romney’s character and perhaps even says something about those who are trying so desperately to malign it.
***Gary A. Howie MSc, PhD*** is a business owner/rancher and a Life & Liberty News contributor
