3:38 PM – 03/05/2012
Ron Paul Touts Support Of Mitt Romney’s Distant Relatives
Ahead of the Idaho caucuses Tuesday, Ron Paul is touting in a new press release the endorsements of several distant cousins of Mitt Romney:
Ty Romney is an attorney handling property and liability claims for State Farm Mutual in Great Falls, Montana and received his Bachelors of Arts Degree from the University of Utah and his Juris Doctorate Degree from Seattle University School of Law. He is an active member of the Idaho State Bar Association.
Ty said, “Ron Paul is honest. It’s time to take a stand for honesty. It doesn’t matter whether the truth is popular or not, I know that Ron Paul will always maintain a true principle and I endorse that degree of integrity.”
Travis Romney is a chiropractor based in Spokane, Washington, and will be speaking at the Greyhound Park caucus location in Kootenai County. With his dad a second cousin to Mitt Romney, Travis is a second cousin once removed.
“I support Ron Paul because he defends the Constitution, loves America and understands what it means to be an American, including the right to live your life any way you want as long as you respect others,” said Travis. He continued, “I love his foreign policy of maintaining peace and trade while making a strong national defense a top priority, and that you only go to war legally through a declaration by the people through their elected representatives.”
(Read about more endorsements here.)
As Dave Weigel of Slate points out, it’s a funny way of pushing back against the narrative that Mitt Romney and Ron Paul have an alliance in the GOP primary. Idaho’s caucuses are proportional, so Paul could potentially skim off delegates. Romney, however, is seen as the favorite in part due to the state’s high Mormon population. A recent Romney rally in Idaho drew overflow crowds and wild cheers. One woman held a sign with the slogan “MITT IS BRINGING SEXY BACK.”
–Luke Johnson
CREDIT: Huffington Post http://huff.to/zjjnYw