Mitt Romney finally releases his information

[Poiuyt]

OK, so it's only his high school report card:



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/mitt-romney-report-card_n_1748140.html

[Siwsan]

1. I suspect that if Willard wasn't George Romney's son, he would be a used car salesman

And probably not a very good one.

[monmouth]

2. IOW, a slacker with no curiosity....n/t

[Booster]

5. Wasn't that how they described Dubya also?

[monmouth]

7. I knew I heard it somewhere..LOL..n/t

[SoCalDem]

3. What a "chatty" teacher he had

[Comrade_McKenzie]

4. Irrelevant.

I have done a 180 since high school. I wouldn't want someone to judge me based on my grades and antics from those days.

So I won't do the same to anyone else.

[monmouth]

8. It's quite relevant. Goes to his ambition, curiosity and getting a job done..n/t

[SickOfTheOnePct]

11. Please tell me you're kidding

A teenager's report card is indicative of how ambitious he'll be as an adult, or will be the basis for deciding whether or not he or she can get a job done?

[monmouth]

20. It's a good indicator...n/t

[GaYellowDawg]

17. At that stage of his life. It has zero relevance to his adulthood.

Zero. I had a 2.65 GPA in high school. My doctoral GPA was a 3.89.

I'm a whole lot more concerned with what MittWit did since high school than what he did in high school. He apparently developed a great deal of ambition, curiosity, and desire to get the job done when his job was to buy out companies, gut them, send their jobs overseas, and sell them off, leaving an empty shell where a productive company once stood. Frankly, I wish the SOB had stayed a slacker.

[gordianot]

6. Similar to his 2010 tax return this may be the best Mitt can produce. n/t

[obxhead]

9. He has had some trouble with Genetics

[zbdent]

10. Great ... another failed painter with delusions of being in power ...

where have I heard that story before?

[Odin2005]

18. Good catch.

[TheLeftBank]

12. Inbreeding catching up to the Romneys?

Mitt's great-grandparents were polygamists who lived in a Mormon colony called Colonia Dublán in Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico to avoid US laws again polygamy. Mitt's father, George Romney was born inMexico. His grandfather (Mitt's great grandfather) Helaman Pratt, had four wives - one of which was his own daughter as well. So Mitt's grandmother is also his great-grandmother . Some of the family still lives in Colonia Dublán and practices polygamy to this day. It does make me chortle when I hear Mitt or his supporters talking about the Family Value of One Man/One Woman marriage. Methinks the bloodline's thinning out a bit too much and the world would be better off if his kids took vows of chastity. Sort of "Hey You! Outta da gene pool!"

[Ruby the Liberal]

15. Welcome to DU.

Do you have a link to back up the assertion that Willard's lineage included incest? Thats a pretty deep claim.

Thanks in advance.

[TheLeftBank]

16. Thanks for the welcome.

My bad.

I had read the story in a news article and clipped it out, but in trying to trace the Romney family geneology just now, it seems the article had a misprint, or was just ambiguously worded. Mitt's grandmother, Ann Amelia Pratt Romney, was the daughter of Anna Johanna Dorothy Wilcken Pratt (known as Dora), one of two sisters that were included among Helaman Pratt's wives. The other three were Emeline Billingsly Pratt, Bertha Christine Wicken Stewart Pratt, Dora's younger sister, and Eliza Christina Carolina Reiche Pratt.

BTW, Helaman Pratt's father (Mitt's great-great-grandfather), Parley P. Pratt, had 12 wives, 30 children, and 266 grandchildren, according to Wikipedia. As of 2011, estimates of Parley's living descendents run from 30,000 to 50,000.

Talk about overpopulating the planet! Parley was a major player.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. That looks fake.

I don't see an official seal.

[gkhouston]

14. A teenager disinclined to put effort into his schoolwork.

Yeah, that's damning.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

19. I Know From Watching "8 Mile"................

....................that Cranbrook is a private school. Wonder what the spoiled rich kid's grades would have looked like had Daddy not been greasing the palms of the school board.

[1-Old-Man]

21. I know an awful lot of parents who would be tickled pink to see their child get that report card

Considering how many children either flunk out or drop out of school I don't see a single thing wrong with that report card.

[Ganja Ninja]

22. They left off his grade for tax evasion.

I'm sure he was tops in his class, A++ with honors.

And I don't see any history or citizenship classes. What's up with that?