And the stories were even more amazing than Gigot suggests .
Grant Bennett “described how Romney, as a Mormon pastor in the late 1970s, devoted 15 to 20 hours a week visiting sick members of his congregation, delivering meals or shoveling snow for the elderly.”
Ted and Pat Oparowski described how Romney visited their 14-year-old son David in hospital when the boy was dying of Hogkins disease. They told of how David wanted Romney to write out his will and how he requested Romney speak his eulogy.
“How many men do you know would take the time out of their busy lives to visit a terminally ill 14-year-old and help him settle his affairs?” Pat Oparowski said.
Ted added that “the true measure of a man is revealed in his actions during times of trouble, the quiet hospital room of a dying boy with no cameras or reporters.”
Pam Finlayson described how Romney had helped her fold laundry when he came to visit and how comforted she felt when he visited her and her premature baby in the hospital. Finlayson also told of how the Romneys had called to express their condolnces when her daughter passed away at age 26, a year and a half ago. She said she found it especially moving to know that in the midst of the Romneys deciding whether to run for president, they had taken the time to call and speak to her about her loss.
And so back to Gigot’s question: Does the fact that this was all hidden from the public for the past five years or even the past year of Romney’s campaign, hurt his chances of winning election.
If it turns out to be the case that someone like Romney cannot win the presidency because he is unwilling to write two autobiographies like Obama or to expose his infidelities like Clinton, then our culture has reached a terrible place.
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