Romney Says He Won't Give Obama Team 'More Things to Pick Through' and 'Distort'

I could care less who you vote for. That is a matter of conscience and principle.

Let's be clear: Obama is a radical Marxist who is hellbent on transforming America and achieving "social justice." He hates this country. And four more years of his policies and Executive Orders will destroy this nation.

The guy is rich what’s to know? Two years of tax returns is plenty. He needs to be demanding Obama’ medical, school and selective service records. I don’t know why he won’t hit back on that.

But for all those who keep mentioning Obama’s college transcripts and test scores, has Romney released those same items? If he hasn’t, insisting that Obama release such records will sound pretty silly.

Agree, but we know something about Romney's academic achievements. It would be to Romney's advantage to compare his educational achievements with Obama. Actually, there is no comparison in terms of who was the superior student.

"Romney attended public elementary schools] until the seventh grade, when he began commuting to Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, a traditional private boys' preparatory school where he was one of only a few Mormons and where many students came from backgrounds even more privileged than he. He was not particularly athletic and at first did not excel academically. During his sophomore year he participated in the 1962 campaign in which his father was elected Governor of Michigan. When his parents moved to the state capitol as part of George Romney taking office, Mitt took up residence at Cranbrook's Stevens Hall. George Romney was re-elected twice; Mitt worked for him as an intern in the Governor's office, and was present at the 1964 Republican National Convention when his moderate father battled conservative party nominee Barry Goldwater over issues of civil rights and ideological extremism.

At Cranbrook Romney was a manager for the ice hockey team and a member of the pep squad, and during his final year joined the cross country running team.] He belonged to eleven school organizations and school clubs, and started the Blue Key Club boosters group. During his final year at Cranbook, he improved academically, but was still not a star pupil.

Romney attended Stanford University in 1965–1966 for a year. In July 1966, he left for a thirty-month stay in France as a Mormon missionary. In June 1968, an automobile he was driving in southern France was hit by another vehicle, seriously injuring him and killing one of his passengers, the wife of the mission president.

Romney, who was not at fault in the accident, became co-acting president of a mission demoralized and disorganized by the May civil disturbances and by the car accident. He rallied and motivated the others and they met an ambitious goal of 200 baptisms for the year, the most for the mission in a decade. By the end of his stint in December 1968, he was overseeing the work of 175 fellow members. Romney developed a lifelong affection for France and its people, and speaks French. The experience in the country instilled in him a belief that life is fragile and that he needed seriousness of purpose. It also represented a crucible, after having been an indifferent Mormon growing up: "On a mission, your faith in Jesus Christ either evaporates or it becomes much deeper ... For me it became much deeper."

While he was away, Ann Davies had converted to the Mormon faith, and had begun attending Brigham Young University (BYU). Mitt was nervous that she had been wooed by others while he was away, and she had indeed started dating popular campus figure Kim S. Cameron and had sent Romney in France a "Dear John letter", greatly upsetting him; he wrote to her to in an attempt to win her back.

At their first meeting following Romney's return they reconnected, and decided to get married immediately but agreed to wait three months to appease their parents. At Ann's request, Romney began attending Brigham Young too, in February 1969. The couple were married on March 21, 1969, in a civil ceremony in Bloomfield Hills. The following day, the couple flew to Utah for a wedding ceremony at the Salt Lake Temple.

At culturally conservative BYU, he remained isolated from much of the upheaval of the era, and did not join in protests against the war or against the LDS Church's policy at the time of denying the lay priesthood, and some sacraments, to blacks. He became president of, and an innovative fundraiser for, the all-male Cougar Club booster organization and showed a new-found discipline in his studies. In his senior year, he took leave to work as driver and advance man for his mother Lenore Romney's eventually unsuccessful 1970 campaign for U.S. Senator from Michigan; together, they visited all 83 Michigan counties. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in English with highest honors in 1971, and gave commencement addresses to both the College of Humanities and to the whole of BYU.

Romney still wanted to pursue a business path, but his father, by now serving in President Richard Nixon's cabinet as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, advised him that a law degree would be valuable to his career.

Thus he became one of only fifteen students to enroll at the recently created joint Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration four-year program coordinated between Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. Fellow students considered him guilelessly optimistic, noting his solid work ethic and buttoned-down demeanor and appearance. He readily adapted to the business school's pragmatic, data-driven case study method of teaching, participated in class well, and led a study group whom he pushed to get all A's.] He had a different social experience from most of his classmates, since he lived in a Belmont, Massachusetts, house with Ann and two children.[45][53] He was non-ideological and did not involve himself in the political or social issues of the day. He graduated in 1975 cum laude from the law school, in the top third of that class, and was named a Baker Scholar for graduating in the top five percent of his business school class.

Four years more of either is not acceptable.

One of them will be in the WH on January 20, 2013. So who is the lesser of two evils?

I would have said, "his Fast and Furious program"... make Obama own it. After all, he's claiming it's privileged.

Most of the commentary (pro and con) regarding Zero clubbing Mitt over the head with Bain Capital misses the elephant in the living room, to wit:
Attacking your opponent repeatedly while not defending your record or saying what you plan to do is a political mortal sin. A certain presidential candidate should remember that. I vowed not to vote for any candidate who relies on negative ads this year. If Mitt and his 503c’s respond in kind, well, I hope I won’t be forced to leave the top of the ticket blank. I’m just hoping one day that TV and radio stations put their collective feet down and say “we’re not gonna run any of this crap any more.”

Hussein is the last person in this country that should be demanding that someone else release their personal information.

” Now here’s a clue for the RINO club : We can tell when you are winning (against obama) when we see Obama on the defensive, when you are on the defensive you look like just another loser. “

NAILED it !!

. It would be to Romney's advantage to compare his educational achievements with Obama. Actually, there is no comparison in terms of who was the superior student.

I'd bet that's true for their entire academic careers, particularly as undergraduates. The claim in that Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law, but like most things with Obama, I don't now if that's been documented.

I'd love to see all this information released, including SAT/ACT and LSAT/GRE test scores, but I don't expect it because I have little doubt that Obama has things to hide that such a document release would reveal. Maybe Romney should release his data and pressure Obama to do the same.

...when you are on the defensive you look like just another loser.

Like just another McShame.

Dems don’t need Romney to supply them with ‘More Things to Pick Through and Distort’ when they can just make stuff up.