Some Facts about Mitt Romney to Think about and Share

I’ve followed the Bain Capital bashing by President Obama and his merry band of campaign hooligans for just about as long as I can.
So, today let’s take a look at Mitt Romney’s record in life and cast a sideward glance at Barak Obama’s along the way.
Mitt Romney actually has a proper first name. It’s Willard. So, we could be calling him Wills, like his friends call Prince William, but Mitt is Governor Romney’s middle name and if that’s what he wants to use, why not.
He’s 65 years old, and compared to Barak’s 50, I would just like to repeat President Reagan’s remark when his opponent said he was too old to be President, “I’m not going to hold his youth against him.” The truth was that everyone in America began to see Reagan’s older age as a real positive.
We all know that Mitt Romney’s father was George Romney, CEO of American Motors and governor of Michigan, with a desire to be President himself, but he never made the finals.
The reason I bring up Mitt’s family is because he had a stable and loving childhood, with interested parents actively engaged in his life and future. While no one, not even President Obama, can pick his childhood or parents, it seems to me that Romney’s adult life has very much reflected his stable and nurturing childhood. One cannot help but see it in the success of the Romney family. Two parents very much in love after 50 years of marriage have raised 5 boys into responsible adulthood, and now have daughters-in-law and 18 grandchildren, all of whom seem to be getting the attention from their grandparents.
Ann and Mitt Romney are living out the continuation of their view about what it means to be a family. While we may sympathize with the President, one thing is certain, Mitt Romney has had the kind of loving and attentive childhood that made him a stable and loving father to his own family.
Please don’t bother to say that it’s easy if you have enough money. Just take a look around America and the world at the very rich failures -- people who married, had children, divorced, and somehow left their children to one side while they concentrated on their “adult” angst and “middle age crises.”
Mitt Romney has a B.A. from Brigham Young University, and a Doctor in Law and M.B.A. from Harvard. Now, I don’t particularly want to renew the debate about President Obama’s university record at Columbia -- but we all know that it is under wrap and that it has been pulled from the Columbia database of graduates.
After his degrees at Harvard, earned simultaneously, Romney went to France for 30 months as a lay missionary of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, as Mormons are required to do if at all possible. Again, I don’t want to draw comparisons, but Obama says he came to religion late and found Jesus as an adult. Terrific. Many people have done the same. But, let’s not underestimate the value of lifelong held religious convictions that are taken to heart and acted upon. It builds a calm and peaceful spirit that makes it easier to face life’s tough moments and easier to be kind and outgoing to those around us, particularly those in need.
While Romney was CEO of Bain Capital, which we’ll address in a second, he was called upon to save the foundering 1992 Olympics. He resigned from Bain, took on the job and saved the Games. At the end of the same year, he was elected Governor of Massachusetts and “saved” that state by balancing its budget.
Now - lets’ get to Bain Capital.
In 1984, Mitt Romney founded Bain capital as a private equity investment firm. That means, quite simply, that individual people lend their money to the firm in order to help grow businesses and new ideas and they expect to be reimbursed through payment of their principal input, with a profit for lending their money to the firm. A reasonable idea, home grown in America, that has helped thousands of start-ups and technical developers without any sense about how to get their ideas into the commercial marketplace.

Some facts about Bain Capital:
- starting with one small office supply store in Massachusetts, Bain turned it into Staples, now with over 2,000 stores employing 90,000 people.
- performed the same kinds of business miracles again and again, with companies like Domino's, Sealy, Brookstone, Weather Channel, Burger King, Warner Music Group, Dollarama, Home Depot Supply, and many others.

Some interesting personal facts about Mitt Romney:
- He was the unpaid President of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee for three years.
- He took no salary and was the unpaid Governor of Massachusetts for four years.
- He gave his entire inheritance from his father to charity.
- In 2011, Mitt Romney gave over $4 million to charity, almost 19% of his income. Just for comparison purposes, Obama gave 1% and Joe Biden gave $300 or .0013%.

Now, dear readers, I have a couple of questions to ask you:
- Did you ever hear of a Heisman Trophy winner who was the worst high school and college quarterback of his generation?
- Did you ever decide to have your car repaired at a garage because you knew from friends that it had the worst reputation in the city?
- Did you ever send your son or daughter to a school voluntarily because you knew it turned out the worst-educated graduates in the community? (Put aside being forced to do so…we all know that needs to be changed.)
- Did you ever seek a doctor or surgeon who had such a poor record of results that most of his patients had to go to a second doctor to get the bungled mess fixed?
- Did you ever invest your hard-earned money, if you were lucky enough to accumulate it in the first place, with a bank or investment firm because you knew that their return on your investment was the lowest in the country?
- Did you ever buy stock in a company whose record of making profits and paying dividends to its shareholders was the worst in its industry?

Of course not.

Now, just one last question --

Why would you even consider re-electing someone President who has no record of achievement as an adult, who doesn’t disclose his educational and draft records, and whose first term of office cannot begin to compare to the record Mitt Romney has had both inside government and in the private sector?

Think about it.