Like father, like son? | 7 March 2012

Given all the buzz around Super Tuesday, we thought CoffeeHousers might care to read this piece from tomorrow’s edition of Spectator Australia, which compares Mitt Romney to his father George, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968:

After a career as a business executive, a handsome Mormon becomes the Republican governor of a Democratic state, then runs for President. He gets a reputation for flip-flopping and, as a moderate, has an uneasy relationship with the party’s conservative base.

It’s a pretty specific biography, yet it describes to a tee two men: Mitt Romney, one of the leading contenders for the GOP nomination, and his father George, who sought the same prize in 1968.

Yet while his father’s campaign fizzled out before Americans had taken down their 1967 calendars, Mitt solidified his frontrunner status this week with six wins (including a squeaker in Ohio) on Super Tuesday, the day ten states cast their ballots for the party’s nominee.