abc news: Mitt Romney’s Mexican Roots...Romney's grandparents FLED America

[spanone]

During a convention that spotlighted nine Latino speakers, featured at least four speaking in Spanish and offered an array of Latino-focused events, Mitt Romney touted his own Mexican roots in a autobiographical video broadcast to the Republican National Convention just hours before Romney himself took the stage.

The GOP nominee touted his immigrant grandparents as “refugees of a revolution.” But unlike many of the speakers that came before him, Romney’s grandparents did not seek refuge in America, they fled it.

In 1885, Romney’s great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, fled to Mexico to escape America’s anti-polygamy laws. Along with a group of his fellow Mormons, Miles Park Romney, who had four wives and 30 children, settled in Chihuahua, Mexico, where polygamy was still legal.

It was there in Mexico that Mitt Romney’s grandfather, Gaskell Romney, grew up and where his father, George Romney, was born. Gaskell and George Romney moved back to America before Mitt Romney was born to avoid the violence of the Mexican Revolution.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/mitt-romneys-mexican-roots/

[JoePhilly]

1. Mitt's money fled America to avoid taxes.

America is Mitt's country only when convenient.

[blue moon 2012]

6. How much money do you make a year? What's with all the class warfare?

I got mocked once on here for never having been in Europe. Down with the people, my ass!

[hifiguy]

8. The rich declared class warfare in 1981

when Raygun became president. They've been winning - at the expense of the other 99% of us - ever since.

[blue moon 2012]

9. Again, I have stated

that I saw a DU poll which showed that many posters make more than the average salary and I was personally mocked for not having been to Europe (as if that made me a rube or something).

[JoePhilly]

14. So one poll, and some one mocked you ... wow.

I know this is hard to understand, but the question is not how much some one makes, but what they think the country should do with taxes.

Personally, I was a lower class kid, and I now do very well. And I know that my taxes help others who are now just like I was years ago.

Class warfare would be expecting me to ACT like Mitt Romney. If you make what I make, or more, you should have no problem paying your taxes because the only reason we can do well is that the US provides a structure in which my assets are protected. And if I have more, I pay more for that protection. And I pay more, so that the kids coming up, get good jobs, and our economy improves.

Mitt's plan is one of hoarding in which a few masters of the universe, like Mitt, gather up all the resources, and they get all the power.

[JoePhilly]

12. I make over 170k a year ... you?

And my investments are right here in the good ole USA.

My question for you and Mitt would be ... how do off-shore accounts, and shell corporations create jobs here in the United States?

After all, that is Mitt's economic plan ... give the super rich huge tax breaks, they invest it (off shore) and then the US gets more jobs.

How does that work?

Its not class warfare, its math.

[blue moon 2012]

13. OMG!!! And you have the nerve to talk about the 1%?!

Even 170K is up there in the ethers in terms of the average person. Thanks for making my point! I am on the very low end of things. You are probably envious that you're not at Mitt's level!

[JoePhilly]

15. You don't seem to be very bright.

I grew up lower middle class.

Most of my family still is. I have become successful. And I never want to be like Mitt. He is a greedy ass.

I am funding my retirement, my kids college funds, and contributing to the college funds of my nieces and nephews.

One of my friends has an autistic child, I've helped him pay for her treatment ... side note, Obamacare helps her, Mitt would throw her under the bus.

There is nothing wrong with making money ... but what Mitt wants to do is make it harder for those who have little to ever advance.

I went to college thanks to federal loans. Your pal Mitt would end those. In Mitt's world, only the rich get to go to college.

As for your position ... I hope you move up. But I would not expect Mitt to do anything but build barriers to your success.

[hifiguy]

16. The troll has left the building. nt

[JoePhilly]

17. Awe ... its so much fun to mock the crazies. I miss him already.

[Iggo]

20. I hear you might be dumb. Please respond if untrue.

k thnx bye

[grasswire]

18. the poster "got mocked once" but just signed up today?

Moran.

[Care Acutely]

19. Careful, you're going to "out" yourself!

ETA: Damn. I was too late. Bye-bye troll who did it wrong and trolled badly.

Oh, yeah, btw,


[font size="6"]4 MORE YEARS![/font]

get used to it

[roguevalley]

22. Mitt the anchor baby

[ohheckyeah]

2. Wasn't part of the "birther"

argument that President Obama wasn't a "natural born citizen" because his father wasn't born in the U.S.? Well, neither was Romney's. So, why aren't they declaring Romney as ineligible for president?

[SDjack]

3. Now that rMoney is the GOP candidate, this is the time to file a legal action

to disqualify him.

[freshwest]

4. Yes, it was. But $$$ don't need a birth certificate...

[DonRedwood]

11. I know! Obama's mom was American as were his mom's parents.

Romney's family just up and left because they didn't like it and gave up their American Citizenship.

[central scrutinizer]

5. dodging the draft in two countries

we had other priorities

[cleduc]

7. So Miles Park Romney faced a choice:

between his (polygamist) dick and his country ...

Kind of ironic we face a similar decision in November

[spanone]

10. and he chose his ____

[SoCalDem]

21. They did not "flee".. they absconded

verb: run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

Fleeing makes it sound as if they were being traumatized and were in fear of their lives.. They REFUSED to follow the law, so they ran away/absconded with the child-brides they "married" into permanent bondage.