Here's why Axelrod should NOT use MAD MEN jokes about George Romney against Mitt

[Ken Burch]

George Romney was much more liberal than Mitt is...supported most of the Great Society programs, tried to build more public housing as Nixon's HUD director(Nixon stopped him from building it)and was one of the leading Republican opponents of the Vietnam War.

If Mitt were running on his dad's program, it would be hard to make a case against voting for him-especially since George Romney, on some issues, may actually have been to the left of the Obama Administration.

The problem isn't that Mitt's policies are too much like his dad's-it's that they're NOTHING like his dad's.

[Lil Missy]

1. the people mittens attracts support from don't know that.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Was Axelrod referring specifically to the mention of George Romney

or to the prevailing attitude among middle-class white men toward women in the '60s that Mad Men showcases? That was my take on it anyway, that his comment was more about what what are now seen as practically 'primitive' attitudes than about his father specifically. You are correct about Romney the Elder, however. By modern gooper standards, he would be decried as a 'liberal' and primaried by party leadership if he were in office today.