Romney's Subliminal Marketing

In a subtle marketing ploy, Mittens has begun comparing himself to Jesus Christ. He has begun describing himself as the son of an uneducated carpenter. Not only that but a magical carpenter who could spit nails into wood.

Mitt and George Romney, the early years.

When Mittens was born, George Romney was an auto industry lobbyist, he hadn't swung a hammer for pay in two decades. Early in Mitten's childhood, his dad became head of a now defunct automaker, American Motors.

The Rambler was his claim to fame.

George was a Rockefeller Republican who nearly tripled state government spending during his six years as governor of Michigan. He was a gaffe prone politician (like father, like son) who most famously said that he had been "brainwashed" over the Vietnam War (To which Gene McCarthy quipped, "a light rinse would have been sufficient.").

This is not to denigrate George Romney. George was ten times the man his son will ever be. But the semi-deific image Mittens is trying to paint is a bald-faced lie, an insult to his father, and an insult to the intelligence of the American people.