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The Heroic Romney Rescue That, For Some Reason, The Campaign Doesn't Talk About
Buzz Feed ^ | 8/23/2012 | Andrew Kaczinsky

Posted on 08/24/2012 1:25:05 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote

It’s a story that’s not often told. Mitt Romney at his family’s summer home in Wolfeboro, N.H. on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee whisking into the night on a Jet Ski with two of his sons to rescue a drowning family of four, their two friends, and their dog.

On the weekend of July 4th, 2003, the Romney family was enjoying their picturesque summer home in New Hampshire on the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee. In the early evening, according to reports at the time, Craig Romney and his older brother Josh were cleaning up the beach while their father rummaged through the garage. Suddenly, screams from the lake broke the silence.

"We heard a whole bunch of screaming," Josh Romney told the Boston Herald. The Romney brothers and their father quickly raced to their Jet Skis. "We tore out of there and my dad hopped on the other Jet Ski and came out right after us."

The screams came from Robert Morrissey, of New Jersey, his wife, their two adult children, two family friends, and the family dog.

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Pretty cool story.

If it were Obama - that dog would have wound up on the BBQ

1 posted on 08/24/2012 1:25:10 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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To: GlockThe Vote

I also remember Romney helping saving that guys missing daughter.


2 posted on 08/24/2012 1:28:14 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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...and the family in the deep six.

soetoro doesn’t have the guts even if he has the ability to swim.


3 posted on 08/24/2012 1:31:10 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

OThug would have probably been too high on coke, pot, and booze to assist in a rescue.


4 posted on 08/24/2012 1:32:18 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: GlockThe Vote

Thanks for posting.


5 posted on 08/24/2012 1:32:18 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("Get that evil, foreign, muslim, usurping bastard out of MY White House!" FUBO GTFO!)
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To: GlockThe Vote

BFLR


6 posted on 08/24/2012 1:32:47 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: GlockThe Vote
Perceiving danger, he runs toward it. Good instincts - makes it a little less difficult to vote for him.



Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

7 posted on 08/24/2012 1:33:24 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: GlockThe Vote

Romney and his sons didn’t save those people someone else did.


8 posted on 08/24/2012 1:33:49 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: GlockThe Vote

I’m not a fan of Romney, few here really are, but this is a great story about him and his character.

He’s also right to let someone else bring it to light.

Just wish he were a Conservative.


9 posted on 08/24/2012 1:35:51 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Liberals, at their core, are aggressive & dangerous to everyone around them,)
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To: GlockThe Vote
You undoubtedly noticed (the second you read "barbeque') that this wasn't about MItt diving into a roaring fire to pull someone out.

I"d pay good money to see that.

10 posted on 08/24/2012 1:35:51 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Kartographer

LOL.

Obama would have been like Mayor Nagin screaming and melting down and flailing away while the family drowned.


11 posted on 08/24/2012 1:35:56 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: GlockThe Vote
Romney and his sons followed the shouts to find the group floating in the darkness treading water alongside their dog.

The Governor heaved the youngest two women onto his Jet Ski, a three-seater, and raced back to shore. The two Romney sons stayed with the rest of the family until the Governor returned to ferry the rest of the family, and their dog, safely to dry land.


I never knew this story! Thanks for posting!
12 posted on 08/24/2012 1:40:04 PM PDT by jb729
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To: Balding_Eagle

Check this out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5WI1FrUNzA

This is a true story.


13 posted on 08/24/2012 1:41:00 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: Balding_Eagle

He may not be rock solid conservative, but he’s a good man who loves his country. More than we can say about the current occupants of the White House.


14 posted on 08/24/2012 1:41:00 PM PDT by jb729
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To: GlockThe Vote

0bama and the dog, LOL. That was my first thought too. 0bama picking the dog meat out from between his teeth.

Romney has class that is why this hasn’t come up before.


15 posted on 08/24/2012 1:41:08 PM PDT by MAKOTHEDOG
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To: Balding_Eagle

You hear a lot of stories about Romney being a decent human being. There also are a bunch of stories about him helping people in smaller ways too. One guy fell off a ladder trying to get a hornet’s nest off the side of his house and Romney went over to his house himself and got rid of the hornet’s nest. Romney giving money to people in the community in need. It reminds me of George Bush Senior. He was portrayed as some out-of-touch plutocrat too but then you find out how much he did for others and how decent he was.


16 posted on 08/24/2012 1:41:26 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: GlockThe Vote

Something surrogates should talk about at the convention


17 posted on 08/24/2012 1:43:15 PM PDT by hecht (restore Hetch-Hetchy, and screw San Francisco and Pelosi)
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To: GlockThe Vote

Wow. Thanks.


18 posted on 08/24/2012 1:45:18 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Liberals, at their core, are aggressive & dangerous to everyone around them,)
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To: hecht

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5WI1FrUNzA

Check that out - its a true story.


19 posted on 08/24/2012 1:48:15 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: GlockThe Vote

Interesting. Thanks for posting. Contrast Romney’s low-profile on this with the typical dem’s embellishment of everything that happens to them. Remember how Hillary! was “almost shot down” when she visited the middle east? and how “Chelsea was almost killed” on 9-11?


20 posted on 08/24/2012 1:51:02 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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