You know, Neo …it was your posting the photo of the very young Romney’s (young marrieds with kids) a few months ago that totally softened my previous Romney stance. Opened my eyes (opened my mind), as it were.
…pictures really are worth a 1000 words sometimes.
These things should be passed around. These are REAL people who love each other and it shows.
what an evil hetero-normative family…
The old normal or so we are conditioned to believe.
This is the first time a political family’s photos brought tears to my eyes. What a Godly, beautiful family.
This kind of sentimental hogwash isn’t up to the standard set by most of the posts on this blog. I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but come on. Little kids are cute. Little kids goofing around with their parents are cute. Nevertheless, the idea that you can look at this picture and just “see” Romney’s “authenticity” or his fitness to be president (or a father, for that matter) is pure claptrap.
Rob?
Scrooge, much?
Neoneocon is famous for being about not-just-politics.
And I beg to differ: this kind of post is invaluable as a contribution to Neo’s varied faire.
Sometimes, real life portrudes through, in all it’s – in this case, in particular – “‘claptrap’ cutsie glory”. Around here, at least.
Laugh a little. Life goes on.
…and the 5th photo on neo’s photo link was the one I referred to in my earlier comment btw.
Great photo, it makes me think of my three children those many years ago and what joy they brought to our lives. They still are a source of joy and pride, along with the grandkids, but those days when they were 9, 6, and 4 were the glory days.
“This kind of sentimental hogwash isn’t up to the standard set by most of the posts on this blog. I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but come on.”
A solid, happy family tells you a lot about people. A dysfunctional family with a bigamous father who deserts a child and a restless, disinterested mother tells a lot about people. There is more to politics than rhetoric and policy. At the core of trust (or lack of trust) between the people and the politicians is the issue of character. Character matters.
You picked my favorite as well. My 2nd favorite is the one of Mitt and his grandson snowdishing down the hill.
@Rob: You are very wrong. I want to know what type of family man a man is. I want to see what he is like when the media is far away. I want to see that a presidential candidate is not just qualified by experience, education, and leadership skills, but also that they are well-rounded with a loving family, good friends outside of work, and able to laugh at himself as well as just laugh and let loose.
I mentioned in church Sunday:
Four years ago, who would have thought we’d be praying for a mormon to be president?
Rob: Nevertheless, the idea that you can look at this picture and just “see” Romney’s “authenticity” or his fitness to be president (or a father, for that matter) is pure claptrap.
Onlly an utter fool would claim that these photos indicate that Mitt Romney would be a good President. Only an utter fool would claim that these photos were put out in the public domain to show that Mitt Romney would be a good President.
The ∅bama campaign has attempted to demonize Mitt Romney as a heartless moneymaking machine. These photos are a good counter to that attempt to demonize Mitt Romney. Those who want to have Mitt Romney demonized as a heartless moneymaking machine would not like to have these photos out in the public domain.
Rob, do you agree that Mitt Romney is a heartless moneymaking machine?
Just wondering.
Au contraire, Rob. As Artfldgr and n.n implied, they’re a reminder of how things used to be before Barack Hussein “Punished With a Baby” bedazzled people everywhere. This photo is a pictorial version of Reagan’s “Are you better off now than you were…?” question.
It ought to be clear now that this election is about a society that would elect either of these two exemplars, these two signs of the times, rather than the two men themselves.
Love this photo. It’s the real deal, and goes a long way toward countering the Left’s portrait of Romney as some kind of evil robot capitalist b%&8#rd.
I rarely if ever quote Joe Scarborough, who has completely sold out to his MSNBC overlords IMO, but I did like what he had to say in his Politico column regarding the first debate:
“..It is possible that the political class has overestimated Barack Obama’s talents for too long. But I suspect Wednesday night’s outcome was more the result of an arrogant campaign underestimating a former Massachusetts governor. That proved to be a pretty dumb thing to do to a guy who breezed through Harvard, revolutionized Wall Street, saved a Winter Olympics, signed a landmark health care bill with Ted Kennedy by his side, raised five gifted boys, and retains the love and respect of a woman he first met in elementary school….”
Seriously, this election is such a no-brainer. What is the matter with people?
The 7 Personal Stories about Mitt are very touching: he has been wonderfully generous and kind on many occasions, and anonymously so.
His character seems to be sterling (like Bain Capital’s business record, right, Bill C.?). That first photo, where he’s a student opposing the student demonstrators, is a sign that he’s long been able to buck the crowd. In fact, he’s just the kind of square I used to detest, and now respect (albeit with a bit of a twinge for my old rebel self!).
My sister, an old hippie, said before the last election that she voted for Obama because she felt “it’s just nicer if we’re all in this together, as a community. Besides, I’m not going to vote for the interests of a bunch of rich billionaires.” That was the extent of her “thinking” on the subject: an emotional rejection of the Republicans as the Party of Plutocrats.
Seeing the compassionate side of Romney will help soften the resistance of people like her, I hope.
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You know, Neo …it was your posting the photo of the very young Romney’s (young marrieds with kids) a few months ago that totally softened my previous Romney stance. Opened my eyes (opened my mind), as it were.
…pictures really are worth a 1000 words sometimes.
These things should be passed around. These are REAL people who love each other and it shows.
what an evil hetero-normative family…
The old normal or so we are conditioned to believe.
This is the first time a political family’s photos brought tears to my eyes. What a Godly, beautiful family.
This kind of sentimental hogwash isn’t up to the standard set by most of the posts on this blog. I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but come on. Little kids are cute. Little kids goofing around with their parents are cute. Nevertheless, the idea that you can look at this picture and just “see” Romney’s “authenticity” or his fitness to be president (or a father, for that matter) is pure claptrap.
Rob?
Scrooge, much?
Neoneocon is famous for being about not-just-politics.
And I beg to differ: this kind of post is invaluable as a contribution to Neo’s varied faire.
We have a saying around here:
Come for the politics, stay for the dance.
It ain’t all wonkie stuff, all the time.
Thank gawd.
Sometimes, real life portrudes through, in all it’s – in this case, in particular – “‘claptrap’ cutsie glory”. Around here, at least.
Laugh a little. Life goes on.
…and the 5th photo on neo’s photo link was the one I referred to in my earlier comment btw.
Great photo, it makes me think of my three children those many years ago and what joy they brought to our lives. They still are a source of joy and pride, along with the grandkids, but those days when they were 9, 6, and 4 were the glory days.
“This kind of sentimental hogwash isn’t up to the standard set by most of the posts on this blog. I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but come on.”
A solid, happy family tells you a lot about people. A dysfunctional family with a bigamous father who deserts a child and a restless, disinterested mother tells a lot about people. There is more to politics than rhetoric and policy. At the core of trust (or lack of trust) between the people and the politicians is the issue of character. Character matters.
You picked my favorite as well. My 2nd favorite is the one of Mitt and his grandson snowdishing down the hill.
@Rob: You are very wrong. I want to know what type of family man a man is. I want to see what he is like when the media is far away. I want to see that a presidential candidate is not just qualified by experience, education, and leadership skills, but also that they are well-rounded with a loving family, good friends outside of work, and able to laugh at himself as well as just laugh and let loose.
I mentioned in church Sunday:
Four years ago, who would have thought we’d be praying for a mormon to be president?
Rob:
Nevertheless, the idea that you can look at this picture and just “see” Romney’s “authenticity” or his fitness to be president (or a father, for that matter) is pure claptrap.
Onlly an utter fool would claim that these photos indicate that Mitt Romney would be a good President. Only an utter fool would claim that these photos were put out in the public domain to show that Mitt Romney would be a good President.
The ∅bama campaign has attempted to demonize Mitt Romney as a heartless moneymaking machine. These photos are a good counter to that attempt to demonize Mitt Romney. Those who want to have Mitt Romney demonized as a heartless moneymaking machine would not like to have these photos out in the public domain.
Rob, do you agree that Mitt Romney is a heartless moneymaking machine?
Just wondering.
Au contraire, Rob. As Artfldgr and n.n implied, they’re a reminder of how things used to be before Barack Hussein “Punished With a Baby” bedazzled people everywhere. This photo is a pictorial version of Reagan’s “Are you better off now than you were…?” question.
It ought to be clear now that this election is about a society that would elect either of these two exemplars, these two signs of the times, rather than the two men themselves.
Love this photo. It’s the real deal, and goes a long way toward countering the Left’s portrait of Romney as some kind of evil robot capitalist b%&8#rd.
I rarely if ever quote Joe Scarborough, who has completely sold out to his MSNBC overlords IMO, but I did like what he had to say in his Politico column regarding the first debate:
“..It is possible that the political class has overestimated Barack Obama’s talents for too long. But I suspect Wednesday night’s outcome was more the result of an arrogant campaign underestimating a former Massachusetts governor. That proved to be a pretty dumb thing to do to a guy who breezed through Harvard, revolutionized Wall Street, saved a Winter Olympics, signed a landmark health care bill with Ted Kennedy by his side, raised five gifted boys, and retains the love and respect of a woman he first met in elementary school….”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82222_Page2.html#ixzz29ChhInC8
Seriously, this election is such a no-brainer. What is the matter with people?
The 7 Personal Stories about Mitt are very touching: he has been wonderfully generous and kind on many occasions, and anonymously so.
His character seems to be sterling (like Bain Capital’s business record, right, Bill C.?). That first photo, where he’s a student opposing the student demonstrators, is a sign that he’s long been able to buck the crowd. In fact, he’s just the kind of square I used to detest, and now respect (albeit with a bit of a twinge for my old rebel self!).
My sister, an old hippie, said before the last election that she voted for Obama because she felt “it’s just nicer if we’re all in this together, as a community. Besides, I’m not going to vote for the interests of a bunch of rich billionaires.” That was the extent of her “thinking” on the subject: an emotional rejection of the Republicans as the Party of Plutocrats.
Seeing the compassionate side of Romney will help soften the resistance of people like her, I hope.