William T Lowery

Mitt Romney and Character

A great article on Mitt Romney, from someone who knew him at high school, on his character and ability to triumph over the attacks the Obama campaign is sure to bring:

[The Obama Campaign] started by saying that Romney can’t relate to “regular folks,” because he has made a fortune and regular folks haven’t. People can see right through such small-minded bigotry, and those cheap shots won’t stand up to scrutiny. Now they are hyping a youthful mistake. That makes the Obama camp look desperate, because if you have to go all the way back to high school to try to find dirt on this guy, he must have matured into a pretty decent fellow. Next they will probably try to paint him as a heartless corporate job cutter, but that will just call attention to his business successes and make a lot of voters think that it might be a refreshing change to have a president who actually understands how to create wealth instead of someone who despises profits and badmouths those who are society’s economic benefactors.

Read the full article here: http://ow.ly/b4cYa 

A Mitt-Shaped Heart

The next time someone tells you that Mitt Romney is a cold-hearted business man who can’t connect to people, I would encourage you to refer them to the following story about a missing girl.

In 1996, one of Mitt Romney’s business partners had a child that went missing. Mitt Romney made the decision to shut down the firm, send the employees to New York City and went searching for the girl. He leveraged his business connections to get the job done. His response to reports that he had shut down the activities of the financial firm: “Our children are what life is all about. Everything else takes a back seat.”

Due to these efforts, the missing girl was found just in time to save her life.

This story reveals three things about Mitt Romney:

1. He may be a businessman, but he knows what is important.
2. From business to search-and-rescue efforts, he is an effective manager who can co-ordinate a variety of people to a successful result.
3. He is a modest man. You don’t hear Mitt Romney telling this story over and over again. Rather, people need to report it on his behalf. That’s a sign of character in my view.