It’s every reporter’s dream to ask a presidential candidate a question that packs multidimensional dynamite. Univision’s Jorge Ramos had that opportunity yesterday when he asked Mitt Romney if he considered his own self a “Mexican-American,” since his father, George Romney, was born in that country.
Romney sheepishly allowed as how he didn’t think that sort of self-identification would be terribly credible. But it was a tricky question nonetheless, not only because Romney is frantically prospecting for Hispanic voters in Florida right now, but also because it served as a reminder that Mitt’s great-grandparents were polygamists who fled to Mexico (reportedly at the instruction of none other than Brigham Young) shortly before the LDS church officially renounced plural marriage, and the new state of Utah banned it altogether…
Polygamy aside, Ramos’ question was probably as welcome to the candidate as a basket of vipers.
Mitt’s Mexican-American Problem
“Mitt’s great-grandparents were polygamists who fled to Mexico… shortly before the LDS church officially renounced plural marriage…” Filed under “Things I am delighted to now know.”
