Mitt Romney acutely wants to run abroad from the Backcountry bequest of accidental war, budget-busting tax cuts for the affluent and bread-and-butter collapse. When a town-hall agitation questioner assuredly affected the GOP appointee to anon analyze himself to Dubya beforehand this week, Romney insisted: "President Backcountry and I are altered people." But abode the two men's biographies ancillary by side, and the similarities that appear are not just striking, they're uncanny.
Here are 18 means that Willard Acclaim Romney is just like George Walker Bush:
1. They were both built-in to fathers called George.
George Romney was an auto industry controlling and the governor of Michigan. George H.W. Backcountry was the 41st admiral of the United States.
2. Anniversary has a aristocratic initial, W., in his name.
Romney's W. is for Willard, anniversary J. Willard Marriott, the hotels magnate and his father's baby friend. Bush's W. is for Walker, anniversary his great-grandfather, George Herbert Walker, a acclaimed financier for whom golf's Walker Cup is named.
3. Their fathers were arresting admiral afore embarking on careers in politics.
George Romney was CEO of American Motors in Detroit. George H.W. Backcountry was a millionaire oilman, the admiral of Zapata Off-Shore in Texas.
4. As boys, both were brought up by admired housekeepers of color.
The Romney ancestors active Birdie Nailing, an African-American woman. The Bushes relied on Paula Rendón, an immigrant from Mexico.
5. Both summered at beach estates in New England.
Romney kicked aback at the Marriott admixture on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. Backcountry vacationed at his ancestors admixture in Kennebunkport, Maine.
6. Anniversary abounding an aristocratic all-male basic school.
Romney is an alum of Cranbrook Academy for Boys in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Backcountry abounding Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
7. Because neither excelled at sports, both became cheerleaders.
Romney was the babysitter of the Cranbrook cheerleading squad's mascot, a duck. At Andover, Backcountry knew his way about a megaphone.
8. Anniversary accustomed characterless grades in top school.
Romney was not accustomed as a standout apprentice (a 1961 address agenda acquired by the Boston Globe showed two Bs, a C and a B+). Backcountry lived in abhorrence of flunking out.
9. Both rode their pedigrees to aristocratic universities.
Romney, by again the son of Michigan's governor, was accustomed by Stanford – area his accompany teased him as "just not qualified." Backcountry was a bequest acceptance to Yale.
10. Both accelerating with degrees in the advanced arts.
Romney was an English major. Backcountry majored in history.
11. Anniversary dodged account in Vietnam.
Romney accustomed abstract deferments accompanying to his Mormon mission to France. Backcountry served stateside in the Texas Air Civic Guard.
12. Their fathers anniversary absent a arresting bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
George Romney abominably contested Richard Nixon in 1968. George Herbert Walker Backcountry went up adjoin Ronald Reagan in 1980.
13. Both dads' campaigns were authentic by a advertence to the paranormal.
George Romney's 1968 attack burst afterwards he abhorrent his above-mentioned abutment for the Vietnam war on "brainwashing." George H.W. Backcountry was baffled in 1980 afterwards apropos to Ronald Reagan's tax-cut plan as "voodoo economics."
14. They abounding Harvard Business Academy at the aforementioned time.
Romney accustomed his MBA in 1974, Backcountry in 1975.
15. Anniversary absent his aboriginal chase for civic adopted office.
Romney was defeated in his Senate chase adjoin Ted Kennedy in 1994. Backcountry absent a House bid in Texas in 1978.
16. Anniversary became governor of his adopted home state.
Romney went on to win in Massachusetts in 2002. Backcountry unseated Texas governor Ann Richards in 1994.
17. As governors, anniversary championed an affair baby to Democrats.
Romney adapted bloom affliction in Massachusetts. Backcountry adapted apprenticeship in Texas.
18. Both campaigned for admiral on an "across-the-board" tax cut – and promised it wouldn't backfire the deficit.
Romney's tax-cut algebraic just doesn't add up. The endure time America took a faith-based attempt on this affectionate of tax policy, Backcountry angry a $5 abundance projected surplus into $5 abundance in new debt.
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