[Daveinyork]

“Romney has spoken proudly of the support his father George, who was governor of Michigan, gave to the civil rights campaign at a time when relatively few Republican politicians did so.”

Romney needs a history lesson.

[wideawake]

Romney didn’t say that. This newspaper did.

[hinckley buzzard]

I think the sentence you quoted includes editorial comment from the writer, not from Romney. It reflects a euro stereotype of the gop that Romney would have had no reason to express himself.